Deepening your Yoga practice Workshop, Saturday August 3rd.
Creating a regular, home yoga practice, transforms your experience and study of Yoga, giving you an amazing tool for self sustainability and general wellbeing. The day will include an enlivening morning session and a more relaxing, restorative afternoon practice. There will be discourse on the integration of a yoga practice into your life via an exploration of […]
Ayurveda and Yoga, your own constitution and the three modes of nature.
The nature of studying with many international Yoga teachers, often means travel and journeys to coincide with where their schedule brings them. Thankfully I’ve always enjoyed this aspect of my continual broadening and deepening of yoga knowledge and have gotten to travel to some great locations over the years. This year has been no exception and […]
The Hridayam and intuition.
As we’d left planning our Easter break to the last minute this year, we had almost given up the idea of going anywhere, then decided on a location a day before leaving due to a friend’s suggestions, found our accommodation by chance when we got there and discovered this beautiful beach while driving about. It […]
Flexibility of body, flexibility of mind.
Most people will recognise that yoga practice, confers not just physical freedoms, but mental and emotional freedom too. The essence of this is being able to choose the response or reactions of the mind and emotions, as opposed to these happening spontaneously. If we have learned to respond to a particular stimulus in one way, […]
Trusting life's processes.
In the Krishnamacharaya tradition of hatha yoga practice, the fundamental foundation of practice is the breath, everything else is built around this. The breath initiates asana (physical movement and posture,) , it leads to pratyahara(sense withdrawal), to Dharana (concentration),to Dhyana (meditation), to yoga. Quite often people remark that until they undertake a yoga practice they […]
Finding your freedom.
One of the qualities of the yogi and yogini is their ability to lift themselves and others up. Just a few weeks ago in class, someone mentioned it was “blue Monday” which is apparently the statistically most depressing day of the year, where people find themselves stuck between the excesses of Christmas and the next […]
Each moment is new.
At the start of January our focus, shifts to the promise of the New Year, which leads to new years resolutions, plans for betterment, lifestyle changes. Our new year marks the perceived start point in the cycle of the seasons, this cycle being just one of many that exist in all of life, each day is a […]
Contemplations on the magnificence of being.
There’s been ten weeks of near continual sunshine and heat in Ireland, breaking the usual pattern of being a rain drenched island on the edge of the Atlantic. It’s often noted how the presence of the sun changes everyone’s attitudes and mood. Of course it can always be recognised as how beautiful it is here, but […]
The Tantric origins of modern Hatha Yoga.
When I first became aware of and interested in Yoga in my youth, it was obvious that what I saw of it, Yogis, Yoginis, Sadhus, teachings etc were all part of a truly ancient tradition and lineage. This certainly conveyed insights, knowledge, experience and realizations that were both timeless and continually of value to humanity. […]
The Heart of Yoga.
I’m feeling very fortunate and blessed to have had the opportunity to study with the fantastic Mark Whitwell. Wendy had made the journey to study with him earlier this year and certainly brought many gifts home, which inspired me to join her on her return to the beautiful Ojai Valley in California. A student of […]