Like most people (presumably), I go through times when, for no apparent reason, I just feel “down”. This happened earlier this year. I don’t think anyone noticed, but I just felt as if my life was out of kilter, that
My favourite colour? Geru.
An attitude of gratitude
A few months ago, we had a state election. I spent the whole day in the sun handing out “How to Vote” cards for the Animal Justice Party. [For those who think that that is incompatible with teaching yoga, please
Thou shalt not kill
I can hold my peace no longer. For too long – as long as I can remember – I have protested against cruelty to animals. I grew up in Mudgee – a sleepy unsophisticated town back then. At the far,
My Mum – the yogi
Please indulge me. Today would be my Mum’s one hundredth birthday, if she were still alive. I couldn’t think how I could ‘celebrate’ her birthday, but I am acknowledging it in various ways. Among my Mum’s many talents was the
How to keep your resolve
Well, what on earth has New Year Resolutions to do with yoga? It turns out – quite a bit! On a broad level of understanding of yoga, we have its very foundations, the practice of which is designed to strengthen
Indians say that yoga is India’s gift to the world
Yoga is way more than the asanas – those physical postures that we generally do in a yoga class. Similarly, it has way more relevance than just keeping us fit by attending a weekly yoga class or asana session. It
Chakra ramblings
At the risk of repeating some of what was said in my first blog about the chakras, it is important to remember that the chakras (pronounced CHAR-kras) are energy. They occur wherever two or more energy channels intersect. As there
The lotus gardening show
I wonder if you’ve ever noticed – on many things to do with yoga or Buddhism, or even “New Age” – that there’s generally a picture or a symbol of a lotus flower? I don’t know if we have native