Depression – Some Alternative Thoughts
I recently came across this useful article: We’ve Got Depression All Wrong. It’s Trying to Save Us – New theories recognize depression as part of a biological survival strategy For anyone affected by depression – maybe as someone susceptible to it; maybe...Reading: Everything You Need to Know To Feel Good – Candace Pert (2006)
I reviewed the late authors first book, Molecules of Emotion back in 2017, and this follow up has been sitting on my shelf for quite some time, before getting my attention. It was worth waiting for! It is a book that bridges science and what may loosely be called...Research: Effects of yogic breath regulation: A narrative review of scientific evidence
I’ve been going through some saved articles in my reading folder, and this one came up: Effects of yogic breath regulation: A narrative review of scientific evidence It’s a comprehensive review of research and papers on Yoga breathing techniques – Pranayama...Reading – A Mind of Its Own – Cordelia Fine (2005)
A Mind of Its Own – How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives The human brain is a wonderful thing to behold – not much to look at and hold, but far more powerful and versatile than any man made computer or artificial intelligence device. However, as someone...Reading: Radical Acceptance – Tara Brach (2003)
So, not a new book, a 2003 publication, and one that was recommended to me on a training in 2017. Its sat on my shelf since, but recently it reached the top of the pile. Of late I’ve been a little jaded about spirituality / self help / wisdom titles, and being...Reading: Mindsight – Daniel Siegel – 2010
Mindsight – Transform Your Brain with the New Science of Kindness In recent years you can’t help but have noticed, especially if you are around the Yoga world, the explosion of interest in Mindfulness. To some extent its nothing new – this comes...Reading: The Brain – The Story of You – David Eagleman (2015)
We don’t always think a lot about our brain. Maybe because thinking about what does the thinking is conceptually difficult! Our brain is complex, not always fully understood, and frankly rather amazing. The flip side of that is the brain can sometimes fool us...Book: Night School – Richard Wiseman (2014)
Subtitled “The Life Changing Science of Sleep”, this is a useful review of the area, and what happens in the third of our life we spend with head on pillow. Its all the more relevant now, with a lot of people reporting sleep disturbance during the pandemic. The first...Yinspire Statement on Conspiracy Theories and Anti-Vaccination Sentiment within Yoga
The BBC recently run an article “Does yoga have a conspiracy theory problem?” The article covers propagation of theories about Covid being a hoax, and allied anti vaccination and anti mask/protection sentiment. These sentiments are linked closely to far...Book – The Goddess Pose – Michelle Goldberg (2015)
The Goddess Pose – The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West Unusual reading for me – a biography. Indra Devi died in 2002 at a ripe age of 103, and is known for her contribution to bringing Yoga out of India and into...Book: The Subtle Body – The Story of Yoga in America – Stefanie Syman 2010
The roots of Yoga are a tangled web, with traditions from the East coming to the West, and the West both adapting these and, in some cases, reflecting them back. Its no surprise – Yoga is both evolving and difficult to define definitively. Some of you in my...Looking to the Horizon
We’re in slightly strange times. We had perhaps hoped the upheavals of 2020 were behind us, yet as we come in 2021 Covid infections are going up; lockdowns are continuing; fear abounds. Over Christmas I took a break from my daily structured on the mat yoga...Book – The Science of Meditation – Coleman and Davidson (2017)
The subtitle is “How to change your Brain, Mind and Body”, and the authors set out their journey as “close friends and collaborators on the science of mediation since the 1970s”. They are both trained psychologists, moving on to Journalism and Neuroscience...Book – Do Your Om Thing – Rebecca Pacheco (2015)
Anyone who has practised with me over a length of time will know I am keen to take yoga out of the studio and into daily life – either as a daily(ish) practice on a mat; micro practices during the day; or simply integrating yogas wisdom into the detail of daily...Book – Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain – Carol Krucoff (2010)
Neck and shoulder pain could be described as a silent plague in modern life – the hunched forward iPosture, along with heightened stress levels probably make us more susceptible than previous generations. And the phrase “it’s a pain in the neck” isn’t in our...Book: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art – James Nestor (2020)
Most yoga classes have attention to the breath at the fore – maybe starting with breath observation, moving to a breathing exercise, then using the breath as an anchor in poses, before returning to observing the breath in final relaxation. And for good reason as...Book: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga – Dagmar Härle (2017)
Trauma is something of an undercurrent in our modern world – only recognised comparatively recently as a separate condition, its something you don’t think about, or use the term flippantly, until it impacts you or those close to you. For those of us...Book: Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers and Students – Siva Raakhi Mohan (2019)
The subtitle of this work is Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers and Students: Bringing Ayurveda into Your Life and Practice and it sums it up well. I’ve read other books about Ayurveda – Yoga’s sister science of well-being – I’ve sat in courses,...Book: Physical Intelligence: The Science of Thinking Without Thinking – Scott Grafton (2020)
Depending who you listen to at any one time we are using 30% / 50% / 70% / pick a number of our brain. It’s a nice headline, but untrue – the complexity of the brain is such its all in use all of the time, its just we may not be consciously aware of it....Socials and Feeds
