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 […]
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 […]
Simple living – the key to supreme happiness
“Simple Living – does not mean poverty or poverty consciousness. There are destitute people whose lives are miserable: whose lives are miserable; this is not the ideal of simple living. Simplicity means to be free of desires and attachments and to be supremely happy within.” Paramahamsa Yogananda Simple living is not living like a hermit […]