Yoga in One Syllable

You’re sitting in a train carriage. The carriage is a narrow, confined space, and the people across the aisle are talking to each other in tones that are louder than they realize. You don’t want to listen in on what they’re saying, but you can’t help it: the voices drag you in, and before you [...]

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Our senses, jnanendriyas as yoga calls them, connect us to the outside world, they affect who we are, and who we become. But our senses don’t see the whole picture.

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It’s been a big week for weather. We’ve seen people swimming down Flinders Street in Melbourne, a so-called Snowpocalypse over the eastern USA, and hailstones the size of oranges cannoning off cars up here in the Blue Mountains. The drastic and disruptive power of weather is a sharp reminder of something that humans are generally [...]

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We can spend a lot of time, and money, chasing after “new”. New cars, houses, clothes, and, of course, experiences. A car with a DVD player to silence those back seat “are-we-there-yets“; a kitchen makeover filled with the latest stainless steel gadgetry; a month long holiday off-the-beaten track. Whatever the object of our desire, we’re [...]

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