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A young man, a desire to meditate, and India circa 1979

June 16, 2013 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By guest author John Guthrie April 1979, Kundabodha, a Meditation hermitage in Sri Lanka. This young man had been travelling for some time. Having already begun to learn the disciplines of Hatha Yoga, he now had a burning desire to learn meditation. In particular Buddhist meditation had an appeal to him. What drugs could not do, then no doubt meditation would succeed. After all, in much of what he had read in those recent times, the authors wrote that the illusory nature of mind … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices, Practices Tagged With: age, Buddhism, buddhist meditation, drugs, expectations, experience, meditation, retreat, silence, sri lanka, The Yoga Lunchbox, yoga, youth

Time to give up on asana, old man

July 23, 2012 by Guest Author 3 Comments

Mike Berghan

by Mike Berghan, Te Aro Astanga For a long time now I have never really asked myself why I do my Ashtanga Vinyasa practice 5 or 6 days a week. If anyone asked me I would say because it is who I am and that I enjoy it. As the result of a couple of recent conversations, and these cold Wellington winter mornings I have been thinking about it a bit more. A friend and student of mine recently said to me after I explained that I try to do 2 Intermediate, 2 Advanced A, and 1 Primary Series Practice … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: age, aging, asana, astanga, Guruji, Mysore, old, self practice, teaching, vinyasa

Will you still be doing yoga at 90?

May 24, 2010 by Guest Author 6 Comments

by guest author Emma Furness, owner of the Dunedin Yoga Studio I recently attended the Yoga Aotearoa IYTA convention in Auckland.  This was a wonderful opportunity to connect into a wider yoga community – a community that included teachers that had been teaching and practicing yoga for more years than I had been alive. In my practice I often run into my own expectations of what my practice ‘should’ bring me: health, longevity, enlightenment, great body.  None of these is guaranteed, even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: age, barbara whitehouse, emma furness, youth

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