Inside Yoga 185 (28/11/2016) Anyone who has travelled on London’s Underground network would have heard the announcement, “Mind the gap, mind the gap”. At first glance this might appear to have nothing to do with meditation, but when meditating we also mind the gap – between the thoughts. Although there are several types of meditation the principle aim is to […]
more >Inside Yoga 185 (28/11/2016) Learning meditation techniques can be easier than finding the time and patience to sit still long enough to practice meditation. Sitting in a class is easier because the teacher controls when you finish but try it at home and it is suddenly much harder. This is a short guide to finding your way into a personal […]
more >Inside Yoga 184 (21/11/16) How many of us find ourselves wanting more time, especially at the weekend? How about an extra day between Saturday and Sunday? Would that do it? But since we cannot conjure up an extra day, what can we do about this? I thought about this, because here I am on Sunday feeling exhausted and not ready […]
more >Inside Yoga 183 A school in Baltimore has replaced detention with meditation and yoga as a way of solving the school’s problems such as pupil violence and behaviour issues. Patterson High School principal Vance Benton says in a Guardian article, that this programme is intended to help students cope with the prevalence of death, violence, and turmoil in their lives. […]
more >Inside Yoga 181 (31/10/2016) At this time of the year, kids run around scaring their neighbours as part of Halloween. This celebration of all things scary is a sign that we do like to be spooked and scared, and this masochistic tendency of putting ourselves in the face of something scary is one of our ways of feeling alive. Yoga […]
more >Inside Yoga 180 (17/10/2016) We are often told things take time and that the answer will come eventually; and yoga definitely requires time, perseverance and patience especially when one is looking for clarity, perfect knowledge or supreme awareness. Patanjali’s yoga sutras states (in chapter 2, verse 27) that “Through this unbroken flow of discriminative awareness, one gains perfect knowledge which […]
more >Inside Yoga 179 (3/10/2016) In recent weeks I have been writing about the types of yoga and explaining what yoga is. This week I will focus on one of the niyamas which asks us to take a look at our self. One of the five niyamas is called svadhyaya which translates as the study of the sacred scriptures and of […]
more >Inside Yoga 177 (19/9/2016) These days you would think there are hundreds of types of yoga? A common question is, “what type of yoga do you teach”? An important question because it does look like there are so many different types or are they all the same but just labelled differently? In many ways it is the latter, it is […]
more >Inside Yoga 176 (12/9/2016) If you practice yoga it does not mean you have instantly fixed all those bad habits and tendencies, like a bad temper or a tendency to worry needlessly, but what the practice does offer is the techniques, confidence and ability to address these unwanted emotions and thoughts and either limit their negative impact or in some […]
more >Inside Yoga 175 (5/9/16) The summer is over and autumn is doing its very best to blow through and while this is going on some of us are gearing up for the new term: with holidays over and back to work being the order of the day. This is the moment when we might want to take stock of where […]
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