Inside Yoga 188 (2/1/2017) I had just finished a long walk with my dog across the top of the Mendip Hills in glorious winter sunshine and had returned to my car. I was just about to drive off when I stopped and thought for second. Why am I hurrying off? The view from the car was beautiful offering a 360degree […]
more >Inside Yoga 187 (12/12/2016) Lately, I have had a lot on my plate from business matters to dealing with utility companies (which is never easy – have you ever got through to the correct person after pressing numerous option buttons?), and while that has meant I needed to check my inboxes and messages, I did realise that I was checking […]
more >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 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 […]
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