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.
Ashram life
Whether you go to an ashram for the atmosphere, the practice or just for a holiday, great self-awareness and growth can occur. I want to share with you my experience of my stint in a Satyananda ashram in India in
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
ELEVENSES!
Things happen in threes, so people say – so on the 11tn of November, we held a special yoga class with triple the purpose! The centenary of the signing of the Armistice at the 11th hour on the 11th day on the
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