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Summer solstice.
Today is the summer solstice, when the sun sits apparently still, at its zenith for a few days, and we have the maximum exposure to

Final day of the Yoga immersion
Today was the final day of the 100 hour Yoga immersion and like all points of completion it was tinged with both joy and

First journal entry and website update for a long time!
Writing this I’m aware that the last journal entry on the website was early 2020, pre Covid, and a lot has happened since then! Although

January and the new year.
As we all sit at the start of January, in the lull after the festive season, its easy to reflect upon the new year and

Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra.
The yoga practitioner is usually associated with having a serenity and equanimity, these qualities are often described in various texts as the hallmarks of the yogi/yogini.

Yoga Immersion 2019/2020
I’m very much looking forward to delivering the first session of the 100 hour Yoga immersion that begins this weekend in the Old Cookhouse community

Bliss
In the Tantric texts on Spanda, the divine creative pulsation, it states that if we lose the essential delight which is our true nature, then we will

Spontaneous meditation.
In the Shiva Swarodaya, an ancient Tantric text on the breath, prana and its flow, it is noted that the meditative state occurs naturally

Trying not to constrict life's flow.
As modern human beings we generally try to control everything, this includes every aspect of ourselves. Though an investigation into Yoga quickly shows that all of life

Turning our response around.
In Tantra, the practitioner often finds a way to take what the general public avoids or recoils from and turns them around in such a way