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An effortless practice comes from meditation
When practicing with a strong focus in dharana (concentration) it then becomes an effortless practice of dhyana (meditation). Just as we...
Jun 20, 2021


Practice with dedication
Patanjali sums up the effects of yoga (Bk 2, v 28) By a regular and devoted practice, the impurities of the student‘s body and mind are...
Jun 13, 2021


Paksa and Pratipaksa - meaning taking one view and conveying the idea of the other side (view)
Tension and dullness within ourselves and in our postures relate to the imbalance within mind and consciousness on every level within...
Jun 6, 2021


Using the faculty of memory
In Yoga this week we will work with understanding the faculty of memory and how it can become our guru. Freeing from memories of the past...
May 31, 2021


Our body reflects all that in mind
What we have experienced and have become attached to is within our body and the mind. Acceptance of this helps to detach from what we...
May 23, 2021


Experience that there is no body and mind as we know them.
We can experience the state of dhyana (meditation) whilst in asana and pranayama practice when on our mats. Using the teachings from ...
May 3, 2021


Understanding prana and mind
This week we will work with understanding how we can keep the body in a receptive mode to receive prana (vital air/ life force) and to...
Apr 25, 2021


Spinal awareness
This week we will focus on bringing of how all are directed outwards from the centre of the body; that being from the spine. We will...
Apr 18, 2021


Asana and pranayama are important for qualification of fitness and for spiritual development
We need to manage and overcome the dullness in body, turmoil in mind and to settle ourselves back into a balanced state of body/mind to...
Apr 11, 2021


Working with the illiopsoas muscle group
This week in yoga we will work and understand the effects of balancing the illiopsoas muscle, the most important group of skeletal...
Mar 28, 2021


Freedom of choice
This week in yoga we will be helping to bring health and balance to the spine. Using the buddhi (intellect) to reflect and make a choice...
Mar 21, 2021


Opening up into whole body awareness.
This week we will work with awakening awareness with intense sensitivity that each pore of the skin acts an inner eye. Awareness diffused...
Mar 14, 2021


Beyond the play of mind/body’s dualities
In yoga this week we will work with the Patanjali Sutra- “Sthira sukha asanam” which means the posture has the two differing and yet...
Mar 7, 2021


What we desire isn’t what we really need
This week we will work with Pratyahara - this is when we control the senses that run after what seems to be fulfilling and yet once the...
Feb 28, 2021


Rejoice in how far we have come along on our path
Yoga takes away a lot of the obstacles that block our progress in life aswell as not seeing how far we have come along on our path. To...
Feb 21, 2021


Pranayama- Kumbhaka
Pranayama is breath restraint and stops the mind from being in control. The Hatha Yogis called this practice “Kumbhaka” which means an...
Feb 14, 2021


Experiencing the powerful Hatha Yoga teachings
This week we will will use some of those powerful teachings from the Hatha Yoga system to open the pranic network, which will help us to...
Feb 7, 2021


Ajna Chakra and Bhadrasana (gracious pose)
This week we will still work on the pranic body and will bring a union of prana into Ajna chakra: centre of wisdom, in the middle of the...
Jan 31, 2021


Vishuddhi Chakra (throat/neck),the purification and communication centre in the pranic (energy) body
This week we will work on raising prana (energy) upwards in the body and up through the neck via the throat chakra - (Vishuddhi ) into...
Jan 24, 2021


Opening Heart Space
This week we will be working with understanding and experiencing there being a “heart space” from where we can love unconditionally to...
Jan 17, 2021
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