Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
It’s Autumn: trees are delighting us with a riot of colour, littering the ground with jewels from their branches. We can take a hint from Mother Nature and enjoy a similar process ourselves, letting go of old, stagnant, nonessentials. Releasing has many more nuances than just ‘getting rid’ of something. Pay attention to Nature move through a full cycle of gestation, birth, growth, and decay and you’ll see letting go as making space. Indeed, Spring blossoms and leaves come to … [Read more...]
By Guest Author Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat Many people on the yogic path are committed to self transformation. This active focus on growth may ignite questioning of one’s own behaviour. Sometimes, there is genuine desire to change a particular habit or pattern, but try as one may, the cause of the action can be elusive! Whether resisting or accepting those aspects of the self which seem outside of conscious control, in truth the reactions, perspectives and even … [Read more...]
No pain, no gain? We’ve been trained to think this way – to believe that we have to suffer in order to achieve anything of real merit. We’ve been taught to believe that things that come easily are not worth as much as those things that we struggle for. We’ve been educated to believe that being busy is a virtue. Doing less is one of those great ideas that we all love to ignore. Less is more, we say, while we rush about doing more, buying more, selling more, being more. So … [Read more...]
Today is the first new moon of 2010 and I am celebrating - as I've already explained - by giving myself a little bit more of what I need. I'm beginning a new 30 day cycle of sadhana or committed yoga practice. Some of you are coming along with me for the journey. Thank you so much for your company. One of the most important lessons I learned in 2009 was the importance of good company. Someone who is always good company, in the very best sense of that word, is my friend and fellow yoga … [Read more...]
by guest author Trudi Collins, Yoga teacher at Synergy Fitness, Napier After reading Kelly’s article about sankalpa’s, and KL’s inspiring 40 day commitment to Sodarshan Chakra Kriya pranayama, I thought I would share my experience (so far this year) with my sankalpa – to improve my backbends. … [Read more...]
by guest author Kelly Fisher, Yoga Unlimited From a yogic point of view, the process of setting a sankalpa (an intention) goes a little like this. … [Read more...]
