Inside Yoga 159 (22/2/2016) Instead of searching for the answers, like the meaning to life, the universe and everything else, or pursuing some ideal state of health or being, we are asked in yoga focus on getting rid of what we do not need in our life. First and foremost among the list of things to be rid of are […]
more >Inside Yoga 158 (15/2/2016) How good is your concentration? Can you pay attention? These are very important questions in yoga and its application is one of the most important factors in yoga. If there is no concentration our yoga practice will not be effective, it will not be yoga. One of the eight limbs of yoga is called dharana, which […]
more >Inside Yoga 157 (25/1/2016) Freeze that moment, yes… the moment that just passed – try again. Simply stop and look at this image of a water drop and the ripples. Don’t do anything for three breaths except look at the picture! Sometimes all we need is to pause just for a few seconds and in this brief moment in time […]
more >Inside Yoga 156 (18/1/2016) Last week the media was chattering about (and reporting) how the Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne had declared that he had ditched his smart phone to help him “live in the moment”. Redmayne is reported to have got rid of his smart phone early last year and replaced it with a basic analogue phone because “it was […]
more >Inside Yoga 155 (11/1/2016) David Bowie has died today after an 18-month battle against cancer. This was the news that greeted many of us this morning, and though this is not necessarily about yoga and Buddhism, there is nothing else I can think of today other than to acknowledge the passing of an artist, a legend and an icon. As […]
more >Inside Yoga 154 (4/1/2016) The New Year represents for many of us the opportunity to make a fresh start or a time to make a change to our lives; or perhaps it represents a chance to stop something and leave it in the previous year. But why now and why does this date have more significance than other dates in […]
more >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 […]
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