Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
Born? Scotland Grew up? Wanganui Wanted to be? An Artist Social clique at school? Didn't really have any 'clique' I belonged to. I've never really felt like I belonged to anything exclusively. Hardest thing about being a teenager? Testosterone :) Greatest disappointment hitting adulthood? ... Greatest challenge or hardship to date? Monastic life during my twenties, and the challenges that brought up. In that environment I met, for the first time, the rawness of the … [Read more...]
by guest author Peter Fernando, meditation teacher and founder of A Month of Mindfulness Establishing a daily meditation practice can be an opportunity for creativity and a fresh perspective on how we live in the world. It doesn't have to seem like just another thing we should be doing, but aren't... One of the most frequent struggles I hear shared by those of us living in urban environments is around maintaining a continuity of mindfulness – both in terms of times alone, sitting in … [Read more...]
by guest author Peter Fernando Peter is a meditation teacher with the Original Nature Meditation Group. One of the first times in my life I remember feeling fully present in the body was when I was in my early twenties. It was a time when I was in quite a lot of mental distress. My life at the time was all doing – doing this, achieving that; fixing this, making that. It was all about activity. To be honest I was a bit compulsive – I felt I had to constantly … [Read more...]
