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Understanding the mantra AUM
New teaching theme starts for Thurs evening (tomorrow’s) yoga class. - using the meaning and teaching of the mantra AUM- from the...
Sep 22, 2021


Integrating teachings from Patanjali and Hatha text.
2,47 Patanjali- by lessening the natural tendency for restlessness and by meditating on the infinite posture is mastered. The Hatha...
Sep 16, 2021


Feeling divine power
Firstly some news - To all ongoing yoga students and potential new ones … Today I live streamed the Wed class from Trinity Church Hall...
Sep 8, 2021


Yoga - it’s meaning
I am inserting this piece of knowledge that we read from the Yoga Philosophy to reinforce that yoga is NOT an exercise class and we...
Sep 5, 2021


Insight into spaciousness when mind is stilled
( the video clip is a sample from my last class- this is how you would be taught if you were taking a class face to face or live streamed...
Aug 30, 2021


Pranayama- powerful practice in so many ways
Teaching theme is understanding and experiencing the importance of really being alert with breath to bring about expansion of prana...
Aug 8, 2021


How to perfect asana
Patanjali 11,47 is referring to how asana is perfected. There is a point when persevering effort is no longer required. By maintaining...
Aug 1, 2021


Awakening and cultivating Buddhi (intellect) into true wisdom.
By awakening Buddhi (intellect) in the asana practice we can eliminate what is not true and what is left to be true according to what the...
Jul 25, 2021


Clearing bondage to memory
This week we will have an aim of getting to the end goal in yoga (Samadhi) but just as in anything we try to work towards there will be...
Jul 18, 2021


Experience of I-AM-NESS - is the first stage of Samadhi (practice of enlightenment)
The aim in yoga is to still the mental activity. We will work with the first stage known as samprajnati samadhi; when we are able to...
Jul 11, 2021


Breaking bad habits of use in body and mind
Teaching Theme- a practical understanding on a problematic area in the body related to hands. elbows, shoulders, neck and upper back....
Jul 4, 2021


Play of nature
Using Patanjali 2,18 Understanding how the unchanging inner Self can perceive enjoyment of life’s pleasures created by the forces of...
Jun 27, 2021


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
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