Five things I learned in 2009 from my yoga and meditation practice

What a year!
Getting pregnant.
Completing the renovations on our home.
Selling it privately.
Making the heart-breaking decision to leave my partner at 7 months pregnant…
… only to witness a miracle of transformation that brought us back together in the most incredible space.
And of course teaching yoga, sharing yoga, practicing yoga, learning yoga, loving yoga…
…all while holding down a [...]

How yoga supercedes the need for political correctness

OK.
Here’s what we need to do to shift this whole PC thing that has infected our culture.
Let’s start by getting a few things straight.
If someone calls me a bitch, does that make me a bitch?
According to their world view, it does.
But I don’t have to believe them.
And more importantly, I don’t have to get upset [...]

How yoga helps us ride the storms of life

They say that some of the most stressful events in life include the following:

renovating
selling a house
relationship breakdown
pregnancy
job uncertainty
moving

Of course, there are plenty of others. But these are just the ones I’m experiencing right now.
Yep, life is kicking my butt. I should probably be curled up in a corner dissolving into a puddle of tears.
But I’m [...]

Part 1: How to connect to other people while holding your centre – a new loving-kindness sadhana

Perhaps my biggest discovery this year has been the power of sadhana. I started my new years with a Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya. It took me a bit longer than forty days to finish it, as I missed a day at day 35 and had to start all over again… but boy [...]

Why it’s important to have friends that share your vision for life

One of the joys of being serious about yoga and meditation practice is the community of like-minded friends I’ve built up around me.
Traditionally, a serious aspirant on the spiritual path would have a teacher or guru to turn to for help, guidance and assistance. Life in Wellington means that this teacher or guru usually shows [...]

Enough of the doom & gloom! We are in a time of great transformation, can we grab the opportunity it represents?

At any one time, many possible futures are available to us as individuals and as a whole. Times of great change represent both times of great challenge and times of great opportunity.
This is one of those times and it makes me excited.

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