Tag: happiness
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Book Review: 365 Days Of Happiness by Jacqueline Pirtle
Author, holistic arts practitioner and ‘healing arts teacher-mentor’ Jacqueline Pirtle spent every day of 2017 devoted to her own happiness, writing every day about the things she did to honour her own joy. After recording her year of happiness, from using affirmations and visualisations to making friends with anger and feeling the energies of weather patterns,…
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Directing Attention & Developing A Powerful Mind
When we’re young, we tend to require or demand attention from our parents in order to learn and develop. When we’re at school, we require attention from teachers and peers, within the workplace we need attention from whomever might be within a specific team, or perhaps an employer, and of course any healthy relationship (be…
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Contentment & Discontentment Through Yoga + Should Everyone Chant OM?
As Yoga becomes ever more popular, the ancient and traditional aspects of it can sometimes become diluted or confused, and the messages send out to students new and seasoned can often leave us feeling even more confused than we were before even stepping on the Yoga mat. Practicing the postures is one thing, but getting…
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Brighton Yoga Festival ~ This Weekend!
So after a year of hard work from the Brighton Yoga Festival team, we’re so excited to welcome everyone to the event this Saturday 23rd July, 10am-6pm at the Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange. Right in the heart of beautiful Brighton! Having managed the festival this year, I can tell you that everyone has put their…
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Interview Special: Peter Deadman ~ Live Well, Live Long
A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to the book launch of Live Well, Live Long: Teachings From The Chinese Nourishment Of Life Tradition. Peter Deadman’s 45 years of practice, study and teaching of traditions of health cultivation has lead him to compile this absolutely fascinating, well-researched and comprehensive book. Live Long, Live…
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Self-Acceptance As The Key To Self-Transformation
One of the major aspects of a Yoga practice is the journey from ‘darkness’ or ‘ignorance’, to ‘light’ or ‘realisation’. The transformation from believing all we are is a body and a brain full of whirling thoughts, to knowing that we are infinitely more and that there’s so much more to life than we often…
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Karma Yoga #fortheloveofyoga
Every action can be turned into Karma Yoga. Everything we ‘do’ – a thought, a word, a deed, leaves an impression, a mark or a samskara. These samskaras are essentially what define us; we are who we are and we are where we are because of what has happened before this moment. The law…
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The Gift Of Gratitude
What’s on your gratitude list? Rather than thinking about what we wanted for Christmas, or what we wish for the New Year, we actually create far more positivity for ourselves and others by realising what we’re already grateful for. Gratitude lists are a big part of our practice on training here in India, and having…