Tag: yoga philosophy
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Blog Roundup: Catch Up With Last Month’s Articles For Your Yoga Inspiration
Each month I write for a a few different websites and magazines, including Breathe Magazine, Ekhart Yoga, and Yogamatters UK. If you missed any of them, have a look at the list below and take your time reading through. There’s a mixture of philosophy, mindfulness, yoga postures, yoga tips, and lots more to choose from.…
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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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Abundance, Enough-Ness & Becoming Yourself
Spring is very much a season of abundance. Plants come into bloom, nature emerges from hibernation, and the lushness and light of life returns after a rather long, dark Winter. In the sacred text the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna even likens himself to the season of Spring, which is known in ancient Ayurveda as the ‘King…
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4 Ways To Truly Detox
When the season of Spring rolls around, we’re often confronted with the fact that Summer isn’t far away, and subsequently faced with articles about ‘detoxing’, ‘cleansing’, and getting a ‘Summer body’. FYI – a Summer body doesn’t mean anything. It’s just your body, in the Summer….. It’s true that we feel a whole lot better when…
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Power: Fear & Freedom
Power is something the modern Western world is seemingly obsessed with; power over each other, power over money, power over health, status, stability, but when there’s so much focus on what’s happening outside of ourselves, we may notice that the power we once felt within ourselves begins to feel… well.. not so powerful. Reflect for…
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Brahmacharya: Sustainable Energy For Ourselves & The Planet
Feeling energised? Possibly not; chronic fatigue is an increasing epidemic, and a general feeling of ‘bleugh’ is something many of us feel often…. Translated as celibacy – Brahmacharya is often now understood more as ‘right use of energy’. Although the correct meaning of the word is indeed ‘celebacy’, this is due to the fact that…
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Dharma & Adharma: Aiming True
Throughout the month of January so far, we’ve explored some of the practices and deities traditionally invoked in times of ‘beginning’, such as at the outset of a journey, the beginning of a celebration, project, or indeed – a new year. While the deity Shiva teaches us that in order for transformation to occur…
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Don’t Wait. Be Great.
Towards the end of the year, we can get into the habit of letting Christmas drinks, heavy foods and low amounts of sunshine take it’s toll on both the body and mind. Of course this is definitely the moment to make the most of time with loved ones, enjoying treats and relaxing into Winter comforts,…
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Impermanence: It’s Time To Get Uncomfortable
‘The only thing that is constant is change’ Heraclitus Life is movement. The exchange of an inhale and exhale, the beat of the heart as it pumps blood around the body, the movement from day to night and back to day, the cycle of the moon, the movements of the mind from ‘happy’ to ‘sad’…
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Facing Fear to Find Freedom & The Deity Kali
Since Halloween is fast approaching, it seems fitting to write about the fascinating subject of FEAR. Yoga classes all over the Western world will more than likely be concentrating on this particular focus this week, with handstands, arm balances, headstands, and those classic ‘fear-based’ postures, but before all of that – let’s first consider what…
