Inside Yoga 69 (28/2/13) Here’s a headline I cannot ignore! “NHS recognises that mindfulness meditation is good for depression”. The newspaper article, which was in Tuesday’s edition of The Guardian, explained that: “Mindfulness meditation has been shown to give patients control over their own depression and anxiety levels and levels of chronic pain, according to a paper published earlier this month […]
more >Inside Yoga 68 (22/2/13) “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.” These words, from Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, were as relevant when it was first performed and as they are today… both in the way Shakespeare […]
more >Inside Yoga 67 (1/2/2013) As our modern way of living races ahead with its busy agenda, there is something that is being squeezed out – namely, silence. It is golden as the phrase goes, and to highlight its importance a church in Sussex released a CD of silence at the end of last year and its sales have rocketed. The […]
more >Inside Yoga 66 (22/1/13) Now that the dust has settled from my computer crash, it is perhaps safe to share an aspect of the experience. There I was just after the New Year ready to go – I had a New Year resolution to have everything in place and to get my business of teaching rolling again. Famous last words: […]
more >Inside Yoga 65 (14/1/2013) Well, I have to be honest and say that the festive season’s burn out, fatigue and ensuing laziness has got the better of me! Hence the absence of a new chapter of Inside Yoga for weeks, more than that, since late-November! My apologies. My new year’s resolution was to start with a new blogs, and so […]
more >Inside Yoga 64 (26/11/12) Last week I was reading a Sunday newspaper magazine article about amazing humans (“Meet the Superhumans”, Observer magazine 18/11/12) and I was fascinated by the story of 25-year-old free diver, Tom Sietas, from Hamburg, who can hold his breath for 22 minutes and 22 seconds – he is the current world record holder. What struck me […]
more >Inside Yoga 63 (12/11/12) Stress in our lives and at work can be a problem for many people. The problem Stress is a part of modern life, but does it need to have such a negative affect on our lives? Some sources, including the Health & Safety Executive, estimate that stress affects one in five of the working population – […]
more >Inside Yoga 62 (29/10/12) You might not want to sit down while I tell you the following: according to recently released research sitting down for prolonged periods can not only harm our health, which is something we might say we already know, but this study says that it can shorten our lifespan! The Guardian reported this week, that the research, […]
more >Inside Yoga 61 (22/10/12) Some aspects of life feel like a one-way journey – a linear progression towards something definite – while other aspects of life have a cyclical nature. Most of us are aware of the seasons in our climate, from winter to spring, to summer to autumn or and back around again; but do we make allowance for […]
more >Inside Yoga 60 (24/9/12) Last week I used the expression: in yoga “we get rid of what we do not need”. A useful sound-bite which sums up the aim of yoga in many respects and also relates to prana and apana, two terms I used at my workshop last weekend. This article explains prana and apana. Prana is considered, in […]
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