Each Summer i take an 8 week break from facilitating a gentle yoga for good health and calmness practice in my local community. I relish this time, not because i don’t enjoy teaching. With 15 years teaching experience, this time away from facilitating in the public domain is like a yoga Nidra practice, a […]
Energy into Nature – the Autumn influence of Yama Damstra
Autumn, wrapped up, hats on, we head outdoors catching the last of the lingering light. Forest foraging for fungal friends, their timely presence favored to boost immunity & moods for the Winter season. The etheral quality of this season, captures the senses. Dulcet hues and tone, earthy scents enticing us out to explore the forests […]
The odd relationship: Yoga and a consumer culture
At the inaugural international conference on yoga for holistic health in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned against turning yoga into a commodity. He stated: “Turning yoga into a business will do immense damage to it. Yoga is not a commodity, yoga is not a brand. It belongs to the whole world…there should […]
Living the wisdom of the Tao – The rainmaker, a taoist proverb
Friends, when grace falls and maya takes hold, call wisdom. Free all thoughts from stress and pressure, then aim. Aim for everything that gives life to life. Use words and thoughts wisely, tools to invoke presence and peace rather than shame and blame. Create space, call wisdom, put things in order. As they should be […]
How Vrksasana supported a return to health
How we experience nature is not the same for all of us. For some, the mystical nature is to be feared and others a resource to be exploited. Both delusions which stem from the belief that: to be human is to be separate from nature – a consciousness which abruptly changed the way human beings […]
Seeking peace? Become a peacemaker
Friends; if you want peace ~ in the world, in your community, in your home – become the peacemaker. Peace is the quality of higher consciousness, higher living and higher civilisation. The antidote to war, anger, anxiety, worry, & fear. Peace is not limited, it is for all, as a natural state of being inherent […]