Inside Yoga 248 (5/11/2018) There are many reasons why we practice yoga and its importance varies from time to time, we might even feel quite ambivalent towards yoga and our practice while it ticks along, but it is when we are going through a difficult period that we are able to realise how valuable our practice is to us. By […]
more >Inside Yoga 247 (29/10/2018) One of the biggest barriers to yoga practice is being distracted and lost in thought, with our mind travelling far away from our body into long storylines of memories or plans for a future. Developing x-ray vision is a good way bringing us back and re-connecting with our body and breathing. When we practice yoga we […]
more >Inside Yoga 246 (22/10/2018) These days it’s hard not to know what time is it is, with phones at hand (in some cases they are glued to our hands), gadgets on wrists, and tablets everywhere, yet many of us ignore what our internal body clock says. Last week I watched I fascinating programme called “Body Clock: What makes us tick?” […]
more >Inside Yoga 245 (15/10/18) Most of us will have experienced one or two eureka moments, and many hope this will happen during our meditation practice, because the Buddha had his, so why not me?! Finding the answer, and meaning, to life and the rest is not that simple, or perhaps it is, but the purpose of this article is not […]
more >Inside Yoga 244 (8/10/2018) It is hard to believe that our own mind is actually our own mind if we consider that we struggle to control it and keep having unwanted thoughts? Yet it is our mind and we need to find ways of taming it! This is what the practice of yoga is really all about, controlling the fluctuations […]
more >Inside Yoga 243 (1/10/2018) Last week I was talking with a few people who had just finished a class with me, and one them said that her partner says she should do yoga all the time because when she gets back from my weekly class she is so calm etc. She said he asks her what she did to get […]
more >Inside Yoga 242 (24/9/2018) During a recent radio interview survival expert Ray Mears said that he thought that the makers of apps and other social media platforms were stealing our time. This comment struck me because it is a step further down the line from saying these inventions take up a lot of our time. Attitudes towards these inventions, which […]
more >Inside Yoga 241 (17/9/2018) Bob Geldof was not the first person to say he didn’t like Mondays, though possibly the first who had a hit song with the title! Yet, why do so many of us dislike Mondays? Or, more to the point, should we be giving this unwelcome thought so much space and time to put us in either […]
more >Inside Yoga 240 (10/9/2018) After the summer break I have gradually got back into the rhythm of work, or have I? I am teaching again and that has got off to a good start, but I have not written a blog for a month and the inspired moment seems to elude me – or rather those moments came when I […]
more >Inside Yoga 239 (31/7/18) Here’s an interesting about one man’s battle with chronic pain, and how he found that meditation helped to reduce his pain levels. Henri Astier suffers from Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome, also known as Chronic non-bacterial prostatitis, and it is interesting article which shows how the mind is such a big factor in how we respond to […]
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