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 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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