Flo told a joke that made me giggle the other day. In fact she won a yoga mat for telling this joke.
Why couldn’t the yogi vaccum his carpet? Because he lost all his attachments!
It brings up visions of a little Indian man sitting in lotus smiling serenely whilst surrounded by pieces of broken vacuum [...]
Pratyahara is one of Patanjali’s 8 limbs of yoga. The idea of sense withdrawal, looking inwards. We spend so much time looking out, filling our senses but without some inward direction are we just projecting our thoughts and emotions onto the outside world unnecessarily?
Human beings have a definite tendency to look out on [...]
This post was inspired by the lovely Nadine Fawell.
I have been for many years a great believer in The Middle Way. Balance. In terms of yoga practice, to feel as if you are working on all levels but not to feel as though there is any strain. This is my own [...]
This meditation has struck a chord with me over recent days so I thought I would share it.
“I am willing to see the magnificence of me. I now choose to eliminate from my mind and life every negative, destructive, fearful idea and thought that would keep me from being the magnificent woman that I am [...]
On a yoga day yesterday with Helena del Pino we talked about Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, which reminded me of that “OMG Eureka” moment when I first studied these and realised that it was all right there in those first three verses. Everything. The whole point of yoga.
atha yoganusasanamyogah citta vrtti nirodhahtada drastuh svarupe [...]
