Clearing bondage to memory
This week we will have an aim of getting to the end goal in yoga (Samadhi) but just as in anything we try to work towards there will be...
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Jul 11, 2021
Experience of I-AM-NESS - is the first stage of Samadhi (practice of enlightenment)
The aim in yoga is to still the mental activity. We will work with the first stage known as samprajnati samadhi; when we are able to...
Jul 4, 2021
Breaking bad habits of use in body and mind
Teaching Theme- a practical understanding on a problematic area in the body related to hands. elbows, shoulders, neck and upper back....
Jun 27, 2021
Play of nature
Using Patanjali 2,18 Understanding how the unchanging inner Self can perceive enjoyment of life’s pleasures created by the forces of...
Jun 20, 2021
An effortless practice comes from meditation
When practicing with a strong focus in dharana (concentration) it then becomes an effortless practice of dhyana (meditation). Just as we...
Jun 13, 2021
Practice with dedication
Patanjali sums up the effects of yoga (Bk 2, v 28) By a regular and devoted practice, the impurities of the student‘s body and mind are...
Jun 6, 2021
Paksa and Pratipaksa - meaning taking one view and conveying the idea of the other side (view)
Tension and dullness within ourselves and in our postures relate to the imbalance within mind and consciousness on every level within...
May 31, 2021
Using the faculty of memory
In Yoga this week we will work with understanding the faculty of memory and how it can become our guru. Freeing from memories of the past...
May 23, 2021
Our body reflects all that in mind
What we have experienced and have become attached to is within our body and the mind. Acceptance of this helps to detach from what we...
May 3, 2021
Experience that there is no body and mind as we know them.
We can experience the state of dhyana (meditation) whilst in asana and pranayama practice when on our mats. Using the teachings from ...
Apr 25, 2021
Understanding prana and mind
This week we will work with understanding how we can keep the body in a receptive mode to receive prana (vital air/ life force) and to...
Apr 18, 2021
Spinal awareness
This week we will focus on bringing of how all are directed outwards from the centre of the body; that being from the spine. We will...
Apr 11, 2021
Asana and pranayama are important for qualification of fitness and for spiritual development
We need to manage and overcome the dullness in body, turmoil in mind and to settle ourselves back into a balanced state of body/mind to...
Mar 28, 2021
Working with the illiopsoas muscle group
This week in yoga we will work and understand the effects of balancing the illiopsoas muscle, the most important group of skeletal...
Mar 21, 2021
Freedom of choice
This week in yoga we will be helping to bring health and balance to the spine. Using the buddhi (intellect) to reflect and make a choice...
Mar 14, 2021
Opening up into whole body awareness.
This week we will work with awakening awareness with intense sensitivity that each pore of the skin acts an inner eye. Awareness diffused...
Mar 7, 2021
Beyond the play of mind/body’s dualities
In yoga this week we will work with the Patanjali Sutra- “Sthira sukha asanam” which means the posture has the two differing and yet...
Feb 28, 2021
What we desire isn’t what we really need
This week we will work with Pratyahara - this is when we control the senses that run after what seems to be fulfilling and yet once the...
Feb 21, 2021
Rejoice in how far we have come along on our path
Yoga takes away a lot of the obstacles that block our progress in life aswell as not seeing how far we have come along on our path. To...
Feb 14, 2021
Pranayama- Kumbhaka
Pranayama is breath restraint and stops the mind from being in control. The Hatha Yogis called this practice “Kumbhaka” which means an...
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