Inside Yoga 268 (13/5/2019) We might think that the greatest obstacle to our yoga practice is our body, because we do not feel flexible enough or strong enough, but the biggest challenge to practice is our mind. In our yoga practice being flexible or strong enough is not a requirement of practice, nor is it the main goal of yoga, […]
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more >Inside Yoga 267 (7/5/2019) WE are often told things take time, to which we nod knowingly but then we carry on being impatient and hurried. The original yoga sutras by Patanjali are clear: we need to maintain a yoga practice over time to perfect it. None of the instant guarantees we see advertised in our modern impatient world, but a […]
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more >Inside Yoga 267 (29/4/2019) I was recently watching a BBC TV programme called Race Across the World and one of the participant travellers commented, “There is magic out there (in this world), you just have to look up from your smart phone to see it…” This comment says so much about how we can improve the quality of our experience. […]
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more >Inside Yoga 266 (23/4/2019) Or, why children can remind us what timelessness feels like. It is simple, it is good for us, but we ignore it, we run roughshod over it, we carry on sure that where we are going is more important than where we are right now! I am writing about being present and aware of what is […]
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more >Inside Yoga 265 (25/3/2019) One of the goals people set with their meditation, yoga, or similar practices is the wish to find a place that is happy, peaceful or simply perfect. Yet we soon learn that the practice teaches us not to go anywhere but to remove what we do not need in our life, leaving behind something that could […]
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more >Inside yoga 264 (18/3/2019) It was late evening and the rest of the family had already gone to bed, I was just about the continue being slumped on the sofa in front of the TV when I decided the dishes needed doing… it was what happened next I want to tell you about. As I washed the dishes I started […]
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more >Inside yoga 263 (11/3/2019) Since the Brexit vote in 2016 we have seen our country being torn apart, stressed, divided, baffled, dazed and confused by the word Brexit and that it entails. After more than two years of this, it looks like the population is now suffering from various conditions including chronic fatigue, chronic stress and in many cases they […]
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more >Inside Yoga 262 (4/3/2019) Last week I wrote an article about sleep and why it is so important to our health and daily life; this is a follow up which highlights the way our use of social media is reducing the amount of sleep we get. A major study into adolescent sleep habits warns that teenagers in the UK are […]
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more >Inside Yoga 261 (25/2/2019) We have been sleeping since we were born, yet all those years later, have we mastered the skill of sleep? Probably not, surveys by the UK sleep Council report that one third of adults suffer from poor sleep and do not get the recommended eight hours per night. Sleep might have been with us since we […]
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more >Inside Yoga 260 (11/2/2019) In the source yoga texts written by Patanjali he describes what we seek through our practice of yoga asanas (physical exercises) in terms of two qualities: alertness and relaxation. The sutra (2.46) states that “asana must have the dual qualities of alertness and relaxation”, according to TKV Desikachar, or according to BKS Iyengar, “Asana is perfect […]
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