Yoga in One Syllable

Our Indian Yoga Tour for Summer 2011 is now well and truly over. We all had a lovely time and I hope to be able to share a little of the magic of India with you over the coming weeks. As I readjusted to life at home the other evening I took a walk through [...]

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Our mind is constantly bombarded by thoughts, impressions and messages. To help get us through the day our mind retrieves hundreds of memories and combines this with real-time data from our senses. In a previous article I questioned the truth of memory, but how often do we question what our senses tell us has happened [...]

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Last post I talked about how, through our interaction with our surroundings, we can overload the mind with excessive sensory information, and how this can leave the mind feeling sluggish and clogged. But there are times when the external environment is beyond our control. Now, for example: as I am writing this email, a gang [...]

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We’re all aware of the modern truism that “you are what you eat”. The food that we put into our bellies, thanks to the wonders of the digestive process, passes on its energy to the body, helping us to create new cells and to stay alive and well. And we’re all aware on some level [...]

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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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