Inside Yoga 118 (20/10/14) Meditation can look like a very difficult technique to learn, it can feel elusive, distant or awkward; in many ways the practice can be difficult in terms of staying still for a long period of time, but the technique itself can be straightforward. Meditation does not have to feel complicated and esoteric; here is a simple […]
more >Inside Yoga 117 (29/9/14) “I’ve always wanted to be happy,” said Neil Baldwin to Lou Macari, in the BBC drama shown last week, “So I decided to be,” explained Neil. This conversation is just one part of a true story, shown last week, about Neil Baldwin, now in his 60s, a man with learning difficulties who did what he said […]
more >Inside Yoga 116 (22/9/14) It is probably safe to say that we all want to be happy; it is a straight forward and simple desire yet something that can feel so hard to find and then hold onto for many of us, but according to Yuval Noah Harari, author of a history of humankind, our ancestors in the stone age, […]
more >Inside Yoga 115 (15/9/14) A few days ago a couple of publications were highlighting the effectiveness of meditation in reducing headaches and migraine. The news stories were citing a recent study that had discovered that meditation can reduce the number of migraines a person suffers from and also the length of migraine can be shorter by as much as 3 […]
more >Inside Yoga 114 (27/8/14) RIP BKS Iyengar “Words fail to convey the total value of yoga. It has to be experienced,” said the yoga teacher BKS Iyengar, who died last week, on August 20, at the age of 95. This short quote summed up a lot of what was important to this influential yoga teacher, because he lived and breathed […]
more >Inside Yoga 113 Finally, science has caught up with experience: with recent reports that scientific research has found “significant differences” between organic food and conventional food. Some of us who have already on the side of organics must be found mumbling to ourselves that “we told you so”! But this is how the science establishment operates – needing scientific and […]
more >Inside Yoga 112 (10/7/14) The Age of Enlightenment might be upon us, or maybe not, just a few MPs exploring the benefits of mindfulness. When the powers that be take up meditation, could we moving towards an enlightened time? Possibly not, but last week, the British Parliament launched an all-party group given the task of exploring the uses of mindfulness […]
more >Inside Yoga 111 (30/6/14) If you visit India there is one aspect of life which you will come into contact with and even sample from time to time, or even daily – the ubiquitous chai wallahs (tea sellers) who can be found on most streets selling tea by the bucket (well, more precisely, vat) load. Is there more to life […]
more >Inside Yoga 110 (18/6/14) For many people who have heard about yoga and meditation, but don’t know anything about it, what it actually entails can appear to be very other worldly, demanding mastery along the lines of the most agile of martial arts, or can feel complicated and steeped in mysticism and wonder. When I am asked about yoga and […]
more >Inside Yoga 109 (4/6/14) We have tried so hard to protect ourselves from infections and diseases with antibiotics we have overdone it – sounds like a familiar human trait? – and now the antibiotics are causing us to be more unwell, more sick and even kill us. This is the view of scientists, such as Martin Blaser who has published […]
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