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Perfect You are perfect The flaws you see, they are simply shimmers from the diamond inside you You are perfect God made you in his own image, how can you be anything but perfect? You are in the universe, and the universe is in you. How can you be anything but...Book: Theories of the Chakras: Bridge to Higher Consciousness – Hiroshi Motoyama
Chakras – strange things. If you attend a yoga class, or hang around the yoga world, you’ll soon hear their mention, along with mystical and sometimes seemingly random attributions of cause and effect to these little ethereal vortexes. If you take that...Book: Serenity Yin yoga – Magdalena Macweld
Serenity Yin yoga : Rest yourself to a calm mind & healthy body – Magdalena Macweld Historically the “big three” in writing about Yin Yoga were Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers and Bernie Clark. The Grilley and Clark books have a similarity, a mixture...Book: The Reluctant Yogi – Carla McKay
It may come as a surprise, and indeed it may not be the best admission for me to make, but the title “Reluctant Yogi” is one that I can identify with. As much as I enjoy my yoga sometimes it seems to be a hard route to betterment. The same sense comes...Weight loss, diet and stress
I was talking to someone recently about weight loss – they were concerned that no matter how hard they exercised and dieted they were putting weight on not loosing it. Body image was becoming a concern for them as they crept up two dress sizes. As usual I make...International Yoga Day
As well as being Fathers Day, Sunday 21 June was also the Summer Solstice and International Yoga Day.The latter, International Yoga Day, has been well covered in the media. It arises from a United Nations Declaration at the behest of the Indian Prime Minister,...Words. Non Violence. Truth.
Over the past few days, two things have recurred in my thinking. Two things with a common root of words – what we say, how it is heard.First, the story in the news of a 13 year old girl committing suicide after a row with her parents about chores. I followed news...Book: Intelligent Yoga – Peter Blackaby
This book has been on my reading list for a little while, and it finally reached the top whilst on holiday. Sometimes there appears to be a gulf between the physical and energetic practice of yoga, between tradition and contempary, between lineage and...Namaste and Om
Two phrases heard in class that sometimes confuse! What does Namaste mean? We use Namaste as a greeting and mark of respect, most commonly at the end of a class, sometimes at the start or on welcoming someone in. The literal translation is “I bow to you”, a more...A long stretch
I read this article by Tom Myers of Anatomy Trains fame tonight.”approaching a new ‘yoga’ for the 21st century electronic world. It may or may not look like the yoga that developed for the Brahmin class of the agricultural...Body v Mind, Mind v Body
We talk a lot in yoga about mind v body, body v mind.My current reading is “Jobs Body: A handbook for bodywork” by Deane Juhan. This passage struck me this morning:We dupe ourselves into believing on one hand that “matter” is one thing and...Yoga and Backs – a Personal Reflection
“A Journey with my back” Update 2019 – I wrote this article in 2015, since then, and drawing on my Yoga Therapy Studies, I would be looking at wider causes of back pain, including nervous system dis-regulation and stress, as well as knowledge that back...Socials and Feeds
