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Why practice asanas?
What is the use of practicing asanas? We need to practice asanas to raise the life giving force; prana and consciousness to harmonise...
May 12, 2025


Breath versus Pranayama.
Breath and pranayama. With every out breath we lose vital energy; known as prana and the body’s elements degenerate. To retain vital...
May 5, 2025


Hatha Yoga is more than performing postures
The reason for yoga is to stop the mind’s turbulence of thoughts. Yoga Chitta Vritti Nirodha - Patanjali Sutras 1,2 - the stopping of...
Apr 28, 2025
Using yoga teachings to teach inner stillness
There is a natural indwelling silence, always there, present, regardless of your mental conditions and external situations, a silence...
Apr 28, 2025


The ancient yogis found from meditation within that the world outside is an appearance of separateness. Deep in the hearts they saw a constant unchanging fullness.
If they went after pleasure outside they became more and more bound to the ever changing wheel of life; time, nature, necessity, accident...
Apr 14, 2025


There appears to be two aspects of mind.
aspect wanting, wishing, looking for something. The other here, present, in the now, accepting all there is. One is wanting to fulfil...
Apr 5, 2025


Ask the question….?
What happens when you observe inbreath? What happens when you observe outbreath? What happens when you observe to the end of outbreath...
Mar 25, 2025


Satya; Truthfulness
We are conscious beings that have imprints from past mental patterns, beliefs and conditioning This creates an illusion of who we are...
Mar 16, 2025


When we act, self study and surrender in yoga, we are purifying the patterns held in body and mind.
We are not doing an exercise to stretch, this is not yoga. Kriya yoga ; ref Patanjali Yoga Sutras is the practice to remove the mental...
Mar 9, 2025


Inner truth
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6, verse 24, one should engage in the practice of yoga with determination and faith and not be deviated from the...
Mar 3, 2025


Hatha Yoga is the practice of purification to prepare the body and mind for the royal path, raja yoga (meditation and absorption into universal consciousness, atma.)
When we retain prana (life force) in body, when mind is devoid of thought and gaze is centred between eyebrows, why should there be fear...
Feb 25, 2025


Trataka, one pointed concentration practice.
Working with the Hatha Yoga text to experience how the oscillating mind relates to so many eye movements. When there is only one object...
Feb 16, 2025


Focussed awareness is important to realise where you are creating ego
We get caught up in random thinking and not realising that your consciousness is temporarily robbed through the senses. This week we will...
Feb 10, 2025


Shahasrara; the highest centre.
This centre is positioned at the crown situation in the pranic subtle body. It transcends all other chakras as it includes them all...
Feb 3, 2025


Bindu
Bindu means point or drop, a subtle spot beyond the chakras situated beneath the cowl m on the back of the head. The Hatha yogis...
Jan 28, 2025


The Guru Chakra
Paschimottanasana In the video ~ working with the guru chakra; inner consciousness which can guide and help to release the mental...
Jan 20, 2025


Ajna Chakra
We think yoga is about becoming more flexible and stronger but it is to find the inner Self, to live a more peaceful life, to spread that...
Jan 13, 2025


Vishuddhi Chakra
This week in class we will be working with the throat chakra; Vishuddhi chakra to open clear and activate. It is known as the wheel of...
Jan 4, 2025


Winter Solstice Yoga Class by Candlight.
Due to the tilt of earth poles reaching it’s maximumtilt away from the sun on the 21st Dec, it is the shortest amount of daylight in the...
Dec 17, 2024
Coming back into stillness
We can manage prana; the life force to run smoothly and correctly, not only for the nature of the physical body to perform smoothly but...
Dec 9, 2024
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