Jan 10, 2015 | Dharana, Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga practices, Yoga Sequences |
What is a yoga intensive? We teachers often call yoga courses which run over several days ‘intensives’, but what does that mean? Are they really intense? Is that a contradiction in terms? Another word that’s used these days for this type of course is...
Nov 29, 2014 | Breathing, Dharana, Mindfulness Meditation |
guest post via Michael Hollingworth The Facts We all know that meditation is supposed to be good for us, but here are some facts that make a tight case for it. Fact number one: The human brain is the most complex known object in the universe. There are 100,000 miles...
Sep 22, 2014 | Dharana, Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga practices, Yoga teaching |
The Bird I spotted a satin bowerbird building his ‘love shack’ in a sheltered part of our garden. My Wiki source says that these clever birds are endemic to eastern Australia. If you’re from another part of the world and aren’t familiar with...
Dec 17, 2013 | Dharana, Mindfulness Meditation, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Yoga practices, Yoga teaching |
I love yoga and I love my yoga practice. I often hear from people that they would like to be able to do home practice but somehow they never quite get there. Maybe this describes your experience. You might have bought all the yoga gear, dvd’s, YogaAnywhere...
Jul 18, 2013 | Dharana, Mindfulness Meditation, Wisdom, Yoga practices |
While meditating this morning, I started to mentally create a to-do list. You may have had a similar experience; in the absence of other stimulation your mind starts to fill up the void with the overflow of your too-busy life. These might take the shape of...
Jul 3, 2013 | Dharana, Dhyana, Humour, Wisdom, Yoga practices |
I did a meditation this morning to the voice recording of Jon Kabat-Zin in which I was able to practice accepting my busy mind. I know that meditation is supposed to be about stilling a chattering mind, but I think I’ve discovered a precondition to having a...
May 30, 2013 | Audio, Dharana, Dhyana, Healing, Health, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Yoga practices, Yoga Therapy |
Next week I’ll be teaching in the Byron Yoga Therapy Course which I’ve had the honour of doing for the last four years. What is yoga therapy? In one sense it’s a contradiction in terms because the basis of Patanjali’s meditation yoga is that an...
Mar 22, 2013 | Dharana, Health, Mindfulness Meditation, Pranayama, Wisdom, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali |
Source: flickr.com via Jessica on Pinterest Yesterday I wrote about how difficult I find it, at times, to pay attention. I’m finding the practice of mindfulness meditation gradually helping me improve my concentration. Another aid for focussing the mind is the...
Mar 4, 2013 | Dharana, Dhyana, Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga practices |
In our household of six, there are three of us who have cottoned onto mindfulness meditation. Michael started it through his involvement in a course of study he is doing where there is a big emphasis on the importance of mindfulness. And then, Daniel learned about and...
Feb 24, 2013 | Dharana, Pranayama, Yoga practices |
Source: taboragallery.com via Kaye on Pinterest When I woke up in the dark today, and it was only 2:37am, I was hoping I would fall right back sleep. Instead I spent the next hour in the slipstream of my thoughts, not awake enough to still them and not sleepy enough...
Feb 20, 2013 | Dharana, Wisdom, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali |
Source: mostbeautifulpages.com via Michelle on Pinterest For some reason, maybe because of teaching some workshops on ‘How to Work with Older Students’, I seem to be preoccupied with ageing. It may be because I am, er… getting on myself. A...
Feb 5, 2013 | Dharana, Dhyana, Philosophy, Samadhi, Wisdom, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali |
Source: Uploaded by user via Femme on Pinterest A friend who is staying with us for a few days is a meditator of decades, going back to his early teachers, Muktananda and Osho (when he was Rajneesh). Now Peter is a meditation teacher in his own right and is here in...
