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 144 (26/10/15) The present moment, the here and now, or perhaps just “now” are just a few words and expressions which describe one of the most important aspects of yoga and Buddhism. In yoga and Buddhism we are encouraged, taught, and reminded continuously to be present, to pay attention to the present moment, to be here and now. […]
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 […]
more >Inside Yoga 145 (12/10/2015) Bikram Choudhury, the founder of hot yoga, has lost his legal fight to copyright his yoga poses, in a court case against Florida yoga studio Evolation. The appeals court heard how heard how Choudhury, based in California, had sued the Evolation yoga studio for copyright infringement, arguing that a sequence of 26 poses and two breathing […]
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