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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more >Inside yoga 249 We have become accustomed to getting answers, and more importantly we are conditioned to expect answers when seeking them, and this is especially the case when it comes to the spiritual practices. What is the meaning of life and so forth? One of my Buddhist teachers, Stephen Batchelor, has written a fascinating book called ‘After Buddhism’, subtitled, […]
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more >Inside Yoga 248 (5/11/2018) There are many reasons why we practice yoga and its importance varies from time to time, we might even feel quite ambivalent towards yoga and our practice while it ticks along, but it is when we are going through a difficult period that we are able to realise how valuable our practice is to us. By […]
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more >Inside Yoga 247 (29/10/2018) One of the biggest barriers to yoga practice is being distracted and lost in thought, with our mind travelling far away from our body into long storylines of memories or plans for a future. Developing x-ray vision is a good way bringing us back and re-connecting with our body and breathing. When we practice yoga we […]
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more >Inside Yoga 246 (22/10/2018) These days it’s hard not to know what time is it is, with phones at hand (in some cases they are glued to our hands), gadgets on wrists, and tablets everywhere, yet many of us ignore what our internal body clock says. Last week I watched I fascinating programme called “Body Clock: What makes us tick?” […]
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