Yoga in One Syllable

If we observe the world around us we can see that life is full of opposites: light and dark, hot and cold, black and white, drought and flood. This duality is fundamental to yogic thought. These opposites are the extreme boundaries of life’s potential experiences. However, yoga does not encourage us  to run headlong into [...]

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Our mind is a great analytical machine, more sophisticated than any computer. But like the promises of “less stress” and “more free time” with which the computer age has lured us in, our mind, rather than streamlining our decisions, can often be caught making life a whole lot more complicated. Granted, our ability to analyse [...]

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A little while back my family and I sat down to a game of Monopoly. As the money was divided, the trinkets chosen and the dice rolled, everyone’s alter egos began to appear. Strategic thinkers and planners morphed into seat-of-the-pants speculators, spendthrifts threw caution to the wind and bet the lot on risky properties, and [...]

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As promised, details of the India 2011 Tour are now live and online. Plans have changed slightly, and our three-week tour now fits neatly into 16 days. Check out the unique South India travel package David and I have put together. And if you can, come along to Hazelbrook on September 4th for a chai!

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We’ve been born into an incredible age: the progress of technology has been exponential in the past few decades. Our culture has elevated the values of science and technology, the intellectual and rational. Whilst all these advances have undoubtedly brought great benefits to our lives, have we inadvertently neglected another aspect of our minds and [...]

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Yoga encourages you to consciously observe your experiences. It also encourages you to learn from them, and to put what you learn into practice in all spheres of your life. My grandfather was a great one for saying “the day you stop learning is the day you die”. When I first heard this zany idea [...]

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Yoga is an experiential science. In today’s world we often forget about the experiential and go straight to the scientific. We want to know all about the benefits, how to practice it, when to practice, who’s an expert in it and how we should feel during and after it. How often do we allow our [...]

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