Posted by in traditional yoga, Yoga, mental health Forgiveness is important and essential. It is the mark of an evolved person, a self-actualized person, it is the mark of strength and maturity. But why? And how? And but, WHY?! It took me a lot of years to get my head around forgiveness, and to understand that it is necessary. But for many years…Read more »
Posted by in mental health, Yoga Lately I’ve been focusing on observing and cultivating the quality of acceptance. I had the idea to focus on this quality when I felt that I was seeing in my life the same patterns playing out again, and again and again, the same themes, the same problems, the same worries, the same fears – the…Read more »
Posted by in traditional yoga, Yoga What is yoga nidra, really? When I first starting teaching yoga nidra out in the community, I had one student say to me that she’d never been able to meditate in all her life and now here she was, meditating for half an hour. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that actually she…Read more »
Posted by in mental health, traditional yoga, Yoga Many people don’t realise it, but yoga is meant to be approached like a science. The attitude we cultivate in us when practising yoga is the one of the objective, detached scientist, who is driven through all that he does by a desire to know. What we come to learn through practising yoga isn’t based on…Read more »
Posted by in traditional yoga, Yoga Stress is the trademark of our times. Indeed, the amount of stress and the pace of life we are experiencing today is unprecedented. Stress, depending on longevity and level, can have a significant impact on quality of life, attributable to an array of problems; insomnia, anxiety, over-eating, under-eating, impulsiveness, depression, tension, nervousness, addictions, headaches, anger,…Read more »
