Sabbatical from social media

Category : General advice, Philosophy 21st June 2013

Inside Yoga 79 (21/6/13) “I feel that I’m getting too dependent on phones, on Twitter,” said Neil Gaiman. “It’s a symbiotic relationship – that instant ability to find things out, to share. I want to see what happens when I take some time off.” Author Neil Gaiman announced last week, in the Guardian newspaper, that he will be taking a […]

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In simplicity we trust

Category : Asanas (Postures), General advice, Philosophy 10th June 2013

Inside Yoga 78 (10/6/13) Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden, wrote:  “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” Last week I was thinking about the idea of simplicity and how important it is to our well-being and quality of life. Yet […]

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Being here and not there

Category : Asanas (Postures), General advice, Philosophy 20th May 2013

Inside Yoga 77 (20/5/2013) “Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside. To create and […]

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Enjoy the silence

Category : General advice, Philosophy 13th May 2013

Inside Yoga 76 (9/5/13) The Buddha taught: “When a (person) knows the solitude of silence, and feels the joy of quietness, he is then free from fear and he feels the joy of the dharma.” Silence is an important feature of life, but it is often squeezed out by our busy lifestyles, which seeks to claim every second of our […]

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Inhabiting ourselves through yoga

Category : Asanas (Postures), General advice, Philosophy 26th April 2013

Inside Yoga 75 (26/4/2013) I have been reading Coming To Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn which is about “healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness”.  In it he has a short chapter about yoga, an overview, which I thought encapsulates the practice of yoga so well I want to share it. In his book, he says “yoga is one of […]

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Solution to restlessness

Category : Asanas (Postures), General advice, Philosophy 19th April 2013

Inside Yoga 74 (19/4/2013) Restless, according to the Oxford English Dictionary states, defines it is as being  unable to rest as a result of anxiety or boredom; offering no physical or emotional rest; or involving constant activity. Most of us experience this at some point in our life while a few of us find that restlessness dominates our life. The […]

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Freedom through control

Category : Asanas (Postures), General advice, Philosophy 5th April 2013

Inside Yoga 73 (5/4/13) How can freedom and control work together? It seems to be a contradiction, but if we are to free ourselves of negative mind states through meditation and yoga we need to exercise a level of control in what we do. For example, our breath is so important in so many ways. Primarily, it keeps us alive […]

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Meditation helps reduce exam stress

Category : General advice, Philosophy 25th March 2013

Inside Yoga 72 (25/3/13) Most of will remember the stress of doing school exams, but how many of us were aware that mindfulness meditation would help us cope and even do better? Even today not many school pupils are aware of how meditation can help them, and for that matter, most teachers are not aware of how meditation can help […]

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How stress affects women more than men

Category : General advice, Philosophy 15th March 2013

Inside Yoga 71 (15/3/13) An article in the Guardian newspaper this week reported that several recent studies have come to the same conclusion: at work, and in general, women are feeling the pressures of stress more than their male peers. One of the studies cited in the report is a 2008 study led by Yale’s Dr Tara Chaplin, whose research […]

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Never, ever give up!

Category : Asanas (Postures), General advice 8th March 2013

Inside Yoga 70 (8/3/13) Here is an inspiring story: it is about Arthur, a veteran US paratrooper who fought in the Gulf War. He says that he sustained a series of injuries as a result of numerous air jumps as a paratrooper. Doctors told him that he would never walk again without the assistance of crutches and braces – so he […]

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