A Traditional Yoga Studio on the Central Coast of NSW
The famous Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw said, “You don’t stop playing because you get old. You get old because you stop playing”. I take “playing” to mean not only having “fun and a sense of humour”, but also “moving
TAPASYA (sometimes written just as tapas) is the third of the niyamas (after saucha and santosha, and the five yamas: ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya and aparigraha). I have had a notice stuck on my fridge for eight or nine years,
The most common meaning for APARIGRAHA is “non-possessiveness”. Other popular interpretations are “non-grasping” and “non-greediness”, or “greedlessness”. These definitions are generally thought of in relation to material things; however, aparigraha is much deeper than that. Aparigraha – the fifth and
A few days ago I went for a late afternoon walk on the beach with my two dogs. As I reached the car-park at the end of our walk, I was drawn over to the grassy area by the voice
This is the symbol ‘OM’, and there are many ways of writing OM, just as there are many ways of writing the letters in the English alphabet – just check out the number of fonts available on your computer! The
There are so many different styles of yoga to choose from these days; finding the right one for you can be bewildering. Our society is searching for new inspiration in old traditions, and yoga has become a trendy way to find
I didn’t decide to become a yoga teacher. I was led to it. Decades ago, I bought a video at Target on a whim. It was a video showing Jerry Hall being instructed in yoga exercises by a yogi named