In Hatha Yoga we can be aware of inner forces of movement within a subtler place than the outer physical plane. When we experience these we are not in our normal state of mind. We are able to focus inside and “see” what it is that is showing as restriction. (We believe it is in the physical body.) It is inner resistance coming from “me” That resistance clings to a non - physical aspect of me. It is the “me state of mind” when that is all we are attached to in life, that cause

Within us is a natural substance called prana - it is a force of life that wants to expand outwards. Our consciousness/ Self/ Spirit/ Purusha/ Atman - many names for the same inner Being, moves with it. In Hatha yoga we release the impurities that block this natural flow of an inner expansion. And so our inner Self moves and evolves aswell. We feel this something different inside; we say we feel like we are walking taller, lighter, and brighter in mind. With the inner lightne

Matsyasana - fish pose using blocks under the head for props. We have been working on the major chakras and experiencing an inner opening and this will be felt we say in our physical body as well. But it is the inner life force that expands and moves blockages that we feel. Each chakra is a place where nadis meet and cross over inline with places in the physical body that we feel blocked. This week we will focus on the lower body and the pranic (life force) opening. We will e

Inside the physical body runs a vast network of currents of life force which animates the physical body. It can be experienced and unblocked by using the focus of the mind. In yoga we undo what blocks this up. We feel light,bright and a sense of inner peace. We are connecting to that which is beyond physical within our inner Being. It happens when the mind is stilled. Om Shanti 🙏

When mind is disturbed by thoughts it immediately affects us. We say we have tensions. It is from our attachments to thoughts that create obstacles within the flow of our life force. We experience dullness, lack of mobility, weakness, heightened emotions, or an inner forcefulness, grasping, or a rajastic feeling. Otherwise we would be feeling content, an inner calm, an inner sense of fulfilment. When we stay out of thoughts we can erase what has affected and what would affect

Finding those deep suffering inner patterns within & moving on from them. We move, live and experience life in ways we have become accustomed to without realising. They are deep patterns that are made from our conditioning past & when we undo them we are free in the mind also. A brightness in mind and personality is revealed more inner life force is experienced and a deeper connection to life around us. The mind becomes STILL We experience an inner peace Om Shanti 🙏

when we dwell on senses we get involved and suffering sets in. We go beyond when the mind is silent and free and becomes the witness. We experience freedom and release that which creates the pain and suffering. Using the teachings left from the ancient yogis we can understand how mind and body are limited and we find a a true release. We can remove ourselves from the repetitive cycle of suffering. Om Shanti

Why do we sometimes experience uncomfortable thoughts that arise from within? ….and they seem to come on their own accord. We are not aware that this happens because we are not seeing beyond the experience. This week we will experience how some asanas show the different feelings that come up from inside. Do we react or suppress them? We will experience the reaction which is our normal psychological pattern. We can overcome them with a strong focus to not get involved with ju

Can we become the experience and forget the posture? When we do, the body and mind is overcome. If what we feel in posture is unpleasant or pleasant, we make an opinion in the mind then body becomes tighter; no change. If we experience the comfort and discomfort equally. there is a lightness, brightness from within and it changes the mind in the same way. The lightness and brightness is the inner subtle layer of our being is made of prana, a charge of life and it needs to mo

Every time I step onto my yoga mat and practice asanas, pranayama, pratyahara, (sense withdrawal) so as to get my mind into deep meditation. I then step off a different person. This week we will experience the inner state of happiness which is within us all. We think of happiness through our gains, through our senses. We can stand in the field of happiness for no reason at all; it just can bubble up.This is when union takes place where one is in a place of no attachments and

Why in yoga do we feel light, less of body shape, no recognition of us in a labelled existence; our roles. We experience an openness and a freeing place which takes us into That which is not a pretended reality. Knowledge of mind, thoughts, body and resistance are useful to then realise we are not those aspects. It is a false programming. Our Reality is in a moving process of life within the body. In Hatha yoga we work with this life; prana and it wants to be everywhere. Whe

Gomukhasana - Cow pose, such a great posture to experiencing the inner sufferings we are holding onto! (this is one to do every day.) Using subtle instructions in yoga helps in taking away from being attached to the inner suffering we experience and helps to point the way towards your inner Self; free from suffering. As well as the yoga postures, pranayama; the means of moving the inner life force, a full focus and detachment are also needed, bringing us into an inner expansi

The inner opening experienced when in yoga is a means of clearing the suffering that is within. The suffering we carry are thoughts with attachments to them and they are deposited in the pranic subtle body. There are some thoughts that don’t create suffering and don’t meet the ego self. They just come and go and are harmless. The suffering ones are those that are reduced and released in yoga and we feel open, expansive, alive more cheerful. It is from the outer senses, the mi

When using stillness and not movement in postures and turning the focus inwards away from the outer senses, then we experience an aliveness within. In this inner experience of aliveness is prana and it is here in the subtle body and by moving prana we can clear all our suffering. The yogis found it is a part of mind that creates the suffering and it is deposited in the pranic subtle body. When thoughts of “me” “mine” “I” related to the suffering comes in, then we lose the al

This week’s teaching theme invites us to notice how we often think of our experiences, sensations, thoughts, and emotions as “me” or “mine.” In Yoga, this is called asmita, or the sense of self that develops when we see ourselves as separate from what we are experiencing. By staying with what is happening in the present moment—simply feeling, sensing, and noticing without needing to claim it as our own—we can begin to see that experiences arise, are observed, and then pass aw

We should be asking these questions and waking up, to a realisation with yoga practice. This week we will work with seeing what feelings are brought up to the surface when we are in certain yoga postures. We seem to battle with some and others we find easier. What are we fighting against and what are we pleasing, within those two different experiences? We are battling ourselves and also feeding ourselves up. Both cause more obstacles; a never ending cycle. We do this in life

We as humans have a distinct ability to split mind’s awareness into two aspects which creates a solid experience. The awareness of a subject and object; the subject being the “I am” - the Asmitta aspect, we translate as en ego self. The object is anything it is experiencing. The solid appearance that is made feels real and creates a denseness in body but is actually not in the body. It is deposited in a layer beneath in the pranic subtle body, by the mind. Using pranayama and

Teaching theme this week is working towards releasing the obstacle that doesn’t allow us to see who we truly are. Avidya is the main obstacle, this is the inability to seeing the truth of who we are. The mind aspect of ahamkar has the ability to create a false sense of who we are. Ahamkar creates another aspect of who we are - a “me aspect” which likes, dislikes, and fears. This creates a separate sense of “me” - a subject and an object; that which it’s seeing/ experiencing.

If we don’t overcome them, we stay with the obstacles and they stay with us too. In yoga we don’t see them with the five senses but with direct sense at the navel centre. The obstacles may not seem that apparent but there is a fogginess in our awareness, which can be linked to our personality. When we feel less bright and alive we can’t get a direct sense of the obstacles lying within. We would then need some intensity and intention, to overcome this and get somewhere brighte

When a thought lands inside and stays inside it creates an attachment; this is because of Asmita. The Asmita is the sense of self the “I am”part of mind. Some thoughts that aren’t related to ego sense stay outside of ourselves. But when a thought goes in and stays there is the attachment to “me”. And this creates a density, “a tension,” a blockage in the subtle pranic body and we can experience this in the physical body too. We can experience a thought that doesn’t fall insid