Inside Yoga 217 (20/11/2017) We are told to concentrate and focus when practising, keeping a meditative awareness yet as many of us will have noticed sleepiness gets in the way, preventing us and troubling us when all we want to do is practice yoga. But is sleepiness the problem? The simple answer is no, being sleepy is not a problem […]
more >Inside Yoga 216 (13/11/2017) Yoga can be many things to many people, it can offer a good stretch, it can be one time we relax, and it can make us feel so much better, yet none of these will be found or achieved without the task being set to become absorbed in yoga. Being absorbed in something is an activity […]
more >Inside Yoga 215 (6/11/17) We might feel life is very complicated some of the time, or perhaps most of the time, and there are times when it’s us who make it complicated when it need not be. While looking for answers we make our route to the solution complex, strained and difficult. The truth is often simpler and easier. When […]
more >Inside Yoga 214 (30/10/17) Sometimes we forget how precious time is: we have become creatures of habit, who would rather be somewhere else rather than where we happen to be, even if that place is a really enjoyable experience and location. Why do we keep leaving when we don’t need to? This morning I was starting a walk in the […]
more >Inside Yoga 213 (16/10/17) Why? It’s a question many of us ask… about our life, existence, its meaning, purpose and so forth, but how many of us find out the definitive answer to this important question? And do we really need to know the answer? The paradoxical nature of yoga practice talks about the answers and the routes to the […]
more >Inside Yoga 212 (9/10/2017) Every journey starts with its first step: we might nod our heads at these words of wisdom but how often do we remember to use them, especially when it comes to our yoga practice? Probably not very often, so here’s a reminder. It doesn’t take long to pay attention to what our feet are doing, but […]
more >Inside Yoga 211 (3/10/17) Yoga offers us the opportunity to feel a greater sense of calmness, feel more relaxed in general, healthier and fill us with more energy, greater clarity, and in general an improved feeling of well- being, yet all these beneficial aspects are only achieved via establishing stillness. Through our practice we aim for stillness, both in body […]
more >Inside Yoga 210 (18/9/2017) Over the past decade, and especially in recent years, there are an increasing number of scientists who have investigated meditation and found that the practice does help improve and change, for the better, our health and importantly our brain. Forbes magazine back in 2015 wrote about 7 ways in which meditation can change our brain. The […]
more >Inside Yoga 209 (4/9/2017) Many of us reach a point when all we want to do is to wipe the slate clean and start again. In such situations all we want to do is restart or reboot, like we do when our computer has stopped working for from overuse and overload. Our yoga practice offers us a way to wipe […]
more >Inside Yoga 208 (28/8/2017) For several decades our average life span has steadily increased but in the spring of this year, a report said that this increase had stalled and might begin to fall, sparking questions about the way we now live, and the health of the nation. These figures came from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and showed […]
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