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 […]
more >Inside Yoga 144 (5/10/2015) Al Jazeera correspondent, Bhanu Bhatnagar, asks “Who owns yoga?” in fascinating documentary about yoga. Bhanu is an Indian who works in Doha for the TV station as well as teaching yoga, and this film takes him across the globe as he asks this question about yoga. This well-balanced film looks into various aspects of yoga as […]
more >Inside Yoga 142 (21/9/15) This week the Dalai Lama gave his blessing to courses run by an organisation called Action for Happiness which aims to make participants happier and the world a better place. Happiness is something we all want, and it’s a “something” that many of us find hard to find. It is elusive and hard to grasp, in […]
more >Inside Yoga 141 (14/9/15) When I was on holiday we had stopped at a service station and whilst I was browsing, actually, I was killing time waiting for my daughter, when I saw a book called The Mindfulness Colouring Book. It was a pocket-sized book filled with black and white out outlined sketches of a variety of pictures, swirls and […]
more >Inside Yoga 140 (7/9/15) “Yoga is 99 per cent practice and 1 per cent theory.” This is what Sri K Pattabhi Jois said, many years ago, and it is still true! Pattabhi Jois is the Indian teacher who taught the style of yoga, in Mysore, called Ashtanga Vinyasa. He died in 2009. A simple message, short and sweet, and to […]
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