Inside Yoga 173 (11/6/2016) Do you have moments when you feel completely carefree or does this feeling of freedom feel like a distant memory, something that when we think about it, hasn’t happened for a long time, perhaps as far back as our teenage years? So what has gone wrong? Or is anything wrong? For many of us life can […]
more >Inside Yoga 172 (4/7/2016) Ever had the thought, “I am no good at meditation”, “my mind will not stop chatting”, or “I’m adrift in my day dreams” and many more thoughts? Well, if you have, you are doing the right thing! No one ever said practice of meditation and yoga is easy, yet, through trying your best to concentrate on […]
more >Inside Yoga 171 (27/6/2106) We often hear that we are living in challenging times and so forth, and most of us trundle along not really bothered or perhaps hoping someone else will deal with it, but over the last few days many of us have been left shocked and reeling (and some overjoyed). For many it all feels like someone […]
more >Inside Yoga 170 (20/6/2016) The summer solstice is today, Monday, June 20 at 10.43pm this evening (London time for those reading this elsewhere) which signifies the longest day of the year, with the added bonus of being a Strawberry Moon too, as today is also full moon. But was has this got to do with yoga? Yoga teaches us to […]
more >Inside Yoga 169 (13/6/16) As you read this, breathe out, then breathe in deeply and then breathe out as slow as you can and as long as you can… That’s the first action of both yoga practice and meditation practice… just remember this when your mind looks for something more complex… simply breathe out. And keep repeating this process of […]
more >Inside Yoga 167 (16/5/2016) Last week I came across a comment by a yoga student who was complaining about his teacher, he was annoyed that he was not getting the best he could from his workout. It was these two last words that caught my eye, regardless of rights and wrongs about the class, all I had in my head […]
more >Inside Yoga 162 (21/3/2016) Charlotte Walker has tried numerous things to control her bipolar disorder and recently found that yoga helped to balance her life. In an article on BBC website she describes how she started yoga again – having done some practice back in the 1990s – and although she found it hard physically she says that she feels […]
more >Inside Yoga 161 (14/3/2016) A yoga teacher in Calgary, Canada, teaches a class under the title “rage yoga”, which according to the teacher, Lyndsey Istace, started after she went through a difficult relationship breakup and felt so angry. The class looks like a yoga class you would expect to see until she encourages the students to do exercises like “screaming […]
more >Inside Yoga 160 (4/3/16) There are a lot of reasons why practicing yoga is a good idea, but now here’s one to add to the list – especially for the ecologically and ethically minded amongst us: practising yoga reduces our carbon footprint. India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change has produced a 21-page document about “Low Carbon Lifestyles”. […]
more >Inside Yoga 159 (22/2/2016) Instead of searching for the answers, like the meaning to life, the universe and everything else, or pursuing some ideal state of health or being, we are asked in yoga focus on getting rid of what we do not need in our life. First and foremost among the list of things to be rid of are […]
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