Inside Yoga 182 (7/11/16) Every so often the unexpected happens: take Tom Ford, who made his money and fame as designer for Gucci, and now as a film director, was recently quoted as saying materialism does not bring us happiness, which some would think is a surprising comment for a person who sold materialism for a living. In an interview […]
more >Inside Yoga 182 (7/11/16) Every so often the unexpected happens: take Tom Ford, who made his money and fame as designer for Gucci, and now as a film director, was recently quoted as saying materialism does not bring us happiness, which some would think is a surprising comment for a person who sold materialism for a living. In an interview […]
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 178 (26/9/2016) In last week’s article, ‘How many yogas are there’ I mentioned at the end some yogas which had not been covered in the article which focussed on explaining Hatha Yoga and Pantanjali’s sutras – this week I will explain some more. At the end of the last article I mentioned yogas called Raja, Karma, Jnana, and […]
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 […]
more >Inside Yoga 174 (18/7/2016) As the summer weather finally reveals its sultry self why not just pause for a moment…simply stare at the falling feather (pictured) for a few deep slow breaths. Sometimes this is all we need to do – to reduce our stress levels, to slow down just when we feel everything is speeding up or perhaps we […]
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