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Sep 8, 2021
Feeling divine power
Firstly some news - To all ongoing yoga students and potential new ones … Today I live streamed the Wed class from Trinity Church Hall...
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Sep 5, 2021
Yoga - it’s meaning
I am inserting this piece of knowledge that we read from the Yoga Philosophy to reinforce that yoga is NOT an exercise class and we...
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Aug 30, 2021
Insight into spaciousness when mind is stilled
( the video clip is a sample from my last class- this is how you would be taught if you were taking a class face to face or live streamed...
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Aug 8, 2021
Pranayama- powerful practice in so many ways
Teaching theme is understanding and experiencing the importance of really being alert with breath to bring about expansion of prana...
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Aug 1, 2021
How to perfect asana
Patanjali 11,47 is referring to how asana is perfected. There is a point when persevering effort is no longer required. By maintaining...
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Jul 25, 2021
Awakening and cultivating Buddhi (intellect) into true wisdom.
By awakening Buddhi (intellect) in the asana practice we can eliminate what is not true and what is left to be true according to what the...
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Jul 18, 2021
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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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