Archive for Yoga teaching
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Theme of the month – Karma Yoga – November 2020
We often think of karma as an eye for an eye type of thing – ie you do something bad and something bad will happen to you. I think the fact that the likes of...
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Theme of the month – My yoga is better than your yoga
Yoga means union. Literally, the word yoga translates as ‘to yolk’. Often this is translated as a union between body, mind and breath or a union between us and God or a union between us...
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Shelter in place – theme of the month blog
The theme of the month this month at the virtual studio is…YOU DO YOU In other words, whatever feels right as you navigate this new world we all find ourselves in. Today I was speaking...
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Theme of the month March – MA!
March is the month where we start to think about Spring (and pray it arrives early), where flowers pop up even though the ground is still cold, the wind is blowing at 50mph and the...
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Theme of the month February – Bhakti Yoga
“Looking for Your Face by Rumi From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable...
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Theme of the month December – Lila, divine play
Last night, I was sat at my desk at 10pm, doing my business admin and desperately wishing I could just hop into bed to get back to my silly but amazing book – the Wrong...
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Theme of the month November – Bhagavad Gita teachings
Theme of the month November – the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita It’s that time of the year again when a brand new group of teacher trainees have started with us in the studio and...
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Theme of the month – Gratitude
Yesterday I went for coffee with my great Mum friend Sandra after the school run, we let the kids run wild around argal lake and we sipped a coffee outside in the Autumn sunshine. We...
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Theme of the month – September – The path to enlightenment via Patanjali’s yoga sutras
Theme of the month September ~ The path to enlightenment via Patanjali’s yoga sutras Yama-niyama-āsana-prāṇāyāma-pratyāhāra-dhāraṇā-dhyāna-samādhayo‘ṣṭāvaṅgāni. Restraint, Observance, Seat, Breath Control, Sense Withdrawal, Concentration, Mediation and Ecstasy are the eight limbs of Yoga. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras...
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Theme of the month – balance
Many years ago when I worked for a mining company in Australia I used to find myself flown from Brisbane to Perth fairly regularly. One one trip, I was exploring the beaches of Freemantle and...