Inside Yoga 158 (15/2/2016) How good is your concentration? Can you pay attention? These are very important questions in yoga and its application is one of the most important factors in yoga. If there is no concentration our yoga practice will not be effective, it will not be yoga. One of the eight limbs of yoga is called dharana, which […]
more >Inside Yoga 154 (4/1/2016) The New Year represents for many of us the opportunity to make a fresh start or a time to make a change to our lives; or perhaps it represents a chance to stop something and leave it in the previous year. But why now and why does this date have more significance than other dates in […]
more >Inside Yoga 153 (14/12/15) Today BKS Iyengar would have been 97 and to mark this Google has put some images of a yogi, sort of resembling Iyengar, in various postures. Iyengar, who was born in Karnataka in 1918, struggled during his childhood with illness such as malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and general malnutirtion. He wrote: “My arms were thin, my […]
more >Inside Yoga 151 (7/12/15) In 2000 photographer Michael O’Neill had spinal surgery and was partially paralysed. His doctors told him he would never use his right arm again. Today he has the use of his right arm due to yoga. O’Neill says yoga really helped him to rebuild his body and have faith in his ability to use his hand […]
more >Inside Yoga 150 (30/11/15) In September a yoga teacher in Canada was told she could not teach her class anymore at the University of Ottawa because of her classes represented “cultural appropriation”. Jennifer Scharf had been teaching her yoga class at the University of Ottawa since 2008 at the Centre for Students with Disabilities, part of the university’s Student Federation, […]
more >Inside Yoga 150 (23/11/15) Last weekend I was watching a film with my five-year-old daughter when she said she wanted to fast forward the film. I told her that she should not do this because she hasn’t seen it before. “Why have a fast forward button then?” she responded. At the time I replied, as most parents would, explaining that […]
more >Inside Yoga 149 (16/11/2015) In the written form, the traditional yoga text came as a series of short aphorisms, like lines of verse similar to poetry (though not in a rhyme as such) which presented the reader with a thought-provoking commentary designed to stimulate contemplation and inquiry. With this in mind, here are a few lines from Yoganjalisaram, which was […]
more >Inside Yoga 148 (9/11/2015) Whatever you are doing when practising yoga, whether it is standing or sitting, a simple or difficult yoga posture, or perhaps you are in seated meditation, have a look at the space between each breath. Just watch for the pause between each breath. What does it feel like? It might be a fleeting moment or an […]
more >Inside Yoga 147 (2/11/15) It is perhaps safe to say that most of us want to feel happy and experience the “feelgood” factor as often as possible, and few of us enjoy feeling miserable and down. The question is not only how do we find this happiness but how do we maintain this good feeling? Life teaches us that everything […]
more >Inside Yoga 145 (26/10/15) How often do we stop long enough to notice silence? If we are honest with ourselves, the likely answer is not very often; and this is not just an external silence that I am asking about but an internal silence. Silence is harder to hear if we keep moving and keep chattering, not just externally but […]
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