Andrea West

This week in class we will be working on Karma Yoga; working without attachment to the end result and this will then not leave a deposit on the mind, but brings freedom. Every action affects your mind Whenever you do something, it leaves a mark on your mind: If you act for a reward (praise, success, feeling good), it creates a mental habit or expectation. If you don’t get that reward, you may feel disappointed or restless. Attachment creates pressure When you act mainly for “what I will...

Why don’t we always feel fresh, light, and truly alive? Yoga teaches that the root isn’t just in the body—it lies within the pranic field, our inner energy system. The yogis understood that when this field becomes disturbed or clouded, we feel it as tension, heaviness, or physical discomfort. By turning inward, they discovered how to clear these impurities at their source. Often, we blame the body. But the deeper cause is not realising that it is all related to the mental projection of...

In yoga, we can feel a sense of inner light or brightness. This shows up in how we live—being kind, accepting others, and feeling a deeper sense of joy. This feeling is connected to something called Kundalini shakti, an inner energy that exists in everyone. It awakens from being dormant in muladhara; (the root chakra) and can rise upward through an inner path; Sushumna to the crown of the head, Sahasrara. This journey represents growing awareness and connection to our true self. There are...