Inside Yoga 259 (4/2/2019) Are you paying attention? Then I will begin. Yoga is that simple. It asks us to pay attention in order to train our mind to focus and avoid distraction, yet we often slip into a distracted state of mind and spend so much time there we might think that is our normal state of mind. In […]
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more >Inside Yoga 258 (28/1/2019) Anyone who has attended a yoga class is familiar with being told to look within, but how many of us understand why looking within is important. After all there is so much around us, we might feel we haven’t time to look inside, or feel it’s a bit egotistical to navel gaze. One of the guidelines […]
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more >Inside Yoga 257 (21/1/2019) Tapas is important: but before you think I am writing a culinary review, tapas is not the Spanish style of eating, but a Sanskrit word which describes the kind of passion, drive and determination we need in life to achieve anything, and in this includes having the motivation to practice yoga as often as possible and […]
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more >Inside Yoga 256 (14/1/2019) What is our relationship with time? Do we seek to control time? Do we need more time? Or do we want to slow or speed it up? Whatever our answers might be, time has always been beyond our grasp or control. Yet if we seek to improve the quality of our life we need to understand […]
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more >Inside Yoga 255 (7/1/2019) Happy New Year: it is a new year and this means for many of us a new year’s resolution to change something about our life. Here is a suggestion: instead of looking for something to add to our life, look at what we can cut out or reduce in our life. Simplifying our life can be […]
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more >Inside Yoga 254 (17/12/2018) What does Christmas mean to you? In politics one should never ask a question without knowing the answer. Perhaps I should not have asked the question about Christmas, because the festive season means so many things to so many people?! Yet, perhaps I can simplify the intention of Christmas in one word: generosity. Leaving aside the […]
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more >Inside Yoga 253 (10/12/2018) It’s gloomy, it’s wet, it’s cold, it’s windy, and it happens every winter yet many of us react with incredulity that the weather is so bad, plus, we wonder why we don’t feel that great at the moment, instead we feel lethargic, moody and simply flat. Welcome to winter… but does it have to be this […]
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more >Inside Yoga 252 (3/12/18) While world leaders were at the G20 meeting in Argentina last week it is reported that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended a yoga class called Yoga for Peace. It might have been a sideshow and missed by most of the world’s press who were more interested in Trump, Putin and May, and the rest, but […]
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more >Inside Yoga 251 (26/11/2018) What happened to the idea that beauty lies within? One of the national papers is running a story about a beauty skin product called Yogaskin. It is a cosmetic product which claims to give the user “the look as a glow that looks as fresh and juicy as if you’ve just stepped out of the yoga […]
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more >Inside yoga 250 (19/11/2018) I recently had my birthday. It was not a significant birthday, I had not reached 100 years old, yet it there were moments when it felt special and other moments when I wanted to treat it as just another day. Why are birthdays special and why isn’t every day special? General consensus is that birthdays mark […]
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