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Confession time people. I’ve been dodging a heart truth

June 3, 2011 By 55 Comments
Time to let go

I have a huge confession to make. I don't want the responsibility for The Yoga Lunchbox anymore, and I don't know what to do about this. Because even though I don't want responsibility for the website anymore... the website isn't just about me. It's a community website, and it's taken input from the community to create such an amazing resource for the yoga community. There's been all kinds of people who've contributed to The Yoga Lunchbox - regular writers like Alys and Jessica, … [Read more...]

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How I finally kicked my co-dependent relationship to the kerb

February 21, 2011 By 18 Comments
Strong & independent or insecure & needy?

Who'd've thought? Strong, independent, courageous Moi was stuck in a co-dependent relationship. Yep, me neither. Despite getting wind of this fact about halfway through our 3 year or so relationship, it took me another 18 months to break the pattern. Which in the end meant breaking off the relationship. This relationship had been increasingly volatile ever since I got back from Prana Flow yoga teacher training in LA. I'd made a commitment to myself on the return plane flight that I … [Read more...]

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Applying the second yama, Satya (truth), to daily life

September 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
Taisuke in Warrior I

It didn't surprise me to discover this week that a yoga asana (posture) for Satya could be Virabhadrasana 1 or Warrior 1 Posture, as this is a posture of standing forward and being forward in your truth. Before I started yoga, my entire life had been built on a lie - a lie that I'd told myself and totally believed. This lie was so embedded in my consciousness that when I first ever did Virabhadrasana 1 in a yoga class I was so challenging mentally and emotionally that I literally ran out of … [Read more...]

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Getting out of my mind – drugs, yoga, meditation and me

July 30, 2010 By 9 Comments
Kara-Leah, walking the path

If you've been reading Musings from the Mat for awhile, you'll know that I'm honest. I put great stock in presenting experiences just as they occur in my life, because I believe that there is so much we can learn from each others' unvarnished experiences. I also am mindful of my commitment to truth because it's one of the Yamas, or wise characteristics that yogis cultivate. Not because it's a "good" thing to do, or even the "right" thing to do, but because as yogis, committed to the science … [Read more...]

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How yoga helped me… find steadiness and beauty within my body

May 9, 2010 By 3 Comments
Revealing steadiness and beauty in Trikonasana

This is the second post in a series of yoga stories from readers. Tell us how yoga changed your life and go in the draw to win a yoga prize package. Submitted by Zoe of the North Island (not her real name), winner of a Yoga Prize Package The sexual abuse of the body started before I turned 4. I say it that way because although it happened to all of me, separating from the body it happened to became a way to survive. I could vanish into the wallpaper or the light shade in an effort to … [Read more...]

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