Yoga in One Syllable

I’ve just come inside from watching a great grey theatre of thunderclouds roll in from the south and over our house. It’s a rare event for us to get thunder in the middle of winter, and in the moments before the rain finally swallowed the view, as the white cockatoos and the electric-green king parrots [...]

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After a lot of planning and prodding (thanks to everyone for all their support and encouragement)  I’m excited to say that this week I’m launching a six week course in yogic thinking called The Yoga Brain. If you’ve been a regular reader of this blog, The Yoga Brain will shed more light on many of [...]

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Meditation occurs in many philosophical and spiritual traditions as a way to become aware of one’s true nature and thereby reach peace within one’s self, and it forms one of the fundamental pillars of Yoga. It’s a discipline that you can spend your entire life cultivating and refining, but as a starting point, we can [...]

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Here’s a riddle for you. What do fairy wrens have in common with riders in the Tour de France? On first inspection it would seem very little. But if we learn to look at them as examples of cooperative behaviour, they can both shed their own light on the same important lesson.

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In Yoga we are encouraged to develop Santosha, a sense of contentment in our life. A pretty tall order, you might say, when there’s still so much to do, to achieve, to worry about. Have you ever asked yourself why that is? The answer is probably a little disconcerting:

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