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 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 […]
more >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 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 […]
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