Confessions from a living room dancefloor

I love to dance. Really love to dance. It’s been my passion ever since I was eight years old and first saw Flashdance. There was something about that movie, and the main character that sang to my soul.
Here was a woman who defied the mainstream in all respects – Alex was a welder by day, [...]

Why sangha (spiritual community) is the most precious thing on your path

In Buddhist practice, the three jewels of life – or the three refugees – are what you turn to for support, for guidance, and for friendship.
These are:

The Buddha nature – the ideal or highest spiritual potential that exists within all beings.
The Dharma – the teachings of Buddha, or the path one walks in following the [...]

How to unleash your inner Goddess

There is a Goddess that lives inside each and every woman.
In some women, the Goddess is obscured by thick, heavy clouds of fear.
Posture is weighted, cramped and hunched. Skin is pale. Eyes dart.
In other women, the Goddess has been laquered over with a mask of perfection.
Glitz, glamour and gloss strut their stuff, leaving no time [...]

How to introduce your children to yoga

The power of yoga to improve the quality of life for our children is an untapped resource.
by guest author Amanda Reid of Samadhi Yoga
Although yoga has enjoyed popularity with adults for many years, it is only recently that we have come to understand how helpful it can be for children in their formative [...]

How to use the creativity of yoga to unleash the child within

We’re all too often wrapped up in the tasks of life.  As we age, we run the risk of diminishing our natural creativity for the sake of ‘being a grown-up’.  The practice of yoga will help keep the inner child alive, and creativity flowing.
By Seka Ojdrovic
Children can be our best teachers
Nearing the end [...]

My nine favourite places to practice asana, pranayama and meditation

Part of my mission as a yoga teacher and writer is to show people that asana, pranayama and meditation can happen anywhere, anytime – not just in a yoga class, at a yoga studio, in a gym or on your mat at home.
Breaking free of our ideas of how asana, pranayama and meditation “should” be [...]