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Yoga Nidra for Sobriety – A journey to wholeness.

February 10, 2021 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

A new outlook for 2021

By Veronica King, Grassroots Yoga & Health As a tantric yogi I have always enjoyed saying yes to life, all of it! For years I’ve had boundless energy to work, play, practice and party. All in equal measure. But over the last few years I noticed a significant shift, my tank that was always full, was not topping up and suddenly I had a completely empty tank. I was depleted, exhausted, facing a health crisis. So I sat with the question, what depletes me and what nourishes me?  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Energetic Practices, How Yoga Helped Me, Meditation Practices Tagged With: Integrative Amrit Method, Sobriety, tantra, yoga nidra, yoga practice

Unity, change and fresh memory: The precipitation of change for yoga in uncertain times

December 23, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Felicity Molloy : PhD I MEd I GDHE I MNZ RMT I YogaNZ Council Senior Level 4 1000h I BodyStill massage & yoga clinic  I must be honest – although I love the world of thinking, I have not yet fully thought through a framework that accommodates our future for yoga. Yoga that responds to a pandemic, keeping in mind the urgency, the devastation, remembrance, and the next wave of hope. I offer these thoughts as theoretical embryony, not to cut across anyone’s experience … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: change, meditation, Memory, pandemic, yoga

The forgotten bass note

December 8, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Elly Barry, Yoga and Body Centred Inquiry Each of us contain within, a symphony of thoughts, whispers, and truths yet to be given breath. To listen within asks more than the ability to become quiet. To listen to another, more than the willingness to be all ears.   Attributing a gesture of great love and attention to one body part alone, is to fall short. Deep listening begins with the ability to inhabit for a moment, the source of someone else’s longings and unmet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Awakening • Creating a More Beautiful World, Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Living Your Yoga, Yoga & Relationships Tagged With: communication, language, listening, Rumi, yoga

Building Resilience with Yoga and Meditation

October 22, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat What is Resilience? No matter who we are, the state of the bank balance, or which country we live in; the twists and turns of life, deaths, jobs, relationship stresses, natural disasters, and trauma can affect us all. Change influences each of us differently, altering our biochemistry, thoughts, and emotions. Resilience is our ability to come back to our centre, to rebound from adversity, and to respond to a challenge in a creative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: meditation, resilience, stress management, swami karma karuna, yoga, yoga nidra

The Yoga of Self-Enquiry

September 30, 2020 by Guest Author 1 Comment

Exploring Witnessing, Strengths, Weaknesses, Aims and Needs By Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat We are currently living through a time that has thrown the ‘norm’ out the door and despite the challenges for many, it is also a wakeup call, an opportunity to think about our lives and take stock. Jnana yoga is a process of sincere self-inquiry with the aim of finding true inner wisdom. Whilst the physical practices of yoga continue to be important, looking in and connecting to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: jnana, meditation, witness, yoga

Spring Equinox Rising

September 29, 2020 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by Sonya Simpson, SSY Sonya Simpson Yoga Have you felt a slow rising of energy over the past few weeks or days? A gentle nudge from within encouraging you to start creating and building? Spring equinox is upon us and with it, the light is brightening and the blanket of winter is becoming easier to throw off. The natural slowing down that occurs in winter, those quiet months when the light is low and the weather cooler, is starting to feel less necessary. Nature is reflecting back to us … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life Tagged With: equinox, meditation, nature, seasons, spring, yoga

Tantra and Purpose in the Time of the Pandemic

September 10, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Una Hubbard, Meditation and Yoga with Una As I write this we’re over halfway into the “Year of the Pandemic”, or what boils down to the “Year of Great Upheaval and Uncertainty”. If you’ve been on Facebook you’ve no doubt seen the many memes declaring 2020 the year we all would just as soon forget. It’s as though we’re all holding our breath until this Covid thing is over. We’re biding our time, waiting it out. And at some point in the future, there will be a fix …. and then we’ll be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: meditation, pandemic, purpose, tantra, yoga nidra

Mindfulness and the Prefrontal Cortex

July 16, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Dyana Wells,  Open Ground School of Meditation A lot of us have heard about mindfulness and its possible benefits. Recently I have learned a few interesting things about the brain that have made the benefits of mindfulness meditation even clearer to me. Meditation produces a thickening of the prefrontal cortex – the part of the cerebral hemispheres above and behind the eyes. The prefrontal cortex increased in size massively during our evolution into human beings and it may hold the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: freedom, meditation, mindfulness, prefrontal cortex, Somatics

Chakras – Our Centres for Transformation to Truth

June 11, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Chakras

by Nisha Kumar Joon, YogaOra A chakra is an energy structure, a whirling vortex of energy that acts a bit like a spiral pulling energy through the body’s central vertical electrical current aligned with the spine. Whilst the spine curves, the main energy feeder, line of light, that draws energy into the body system’s energy line, is straight. In our human body we tend to work with seven main chakras but there are many, many more. Chakras are also known psychic centers in the subtle body, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, The Process of Kundalini, Yoga & Ayurveda Tagged With: Ayurveda, chakras, energetic centre, transformation, truth and yoga

Creating Calm in Changing Times with Ayurveda

June 2, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Amy Massey, Somama Yoga and Ayurveda As we re-emerge from lockdown, we are stepping out into the midst of changing times. The seasonal change is upon us as autumn transitions into winter and we are all navigating impacts of coronavirus in our lives and worldwide. Ayurvedic wisdom brings us back to balance with tips to soothe and strengthen body, mind, heart and soul. Ayurveda (ayur meaning life, veda meaning knowledge) gives us a map of qualities that exist within us and in the world … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Ayurveda Tagged With: Autumn, Ayurveda, chai, lockdown, vata, winter

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