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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Watching a documentary last week about the brain and how it functions I was struck by how important perseverance and enthusiasm are to achieving our goals in life. Yet it seems these two psychological states are all too often the first things to go out the window when learning something new.

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As humans, we have a strange dichotomy existing in our minds. Part of us loves the familiarity of the known – the comfort of routine- and yet some other part of us finds it tedious and loathsome. Equally, while part of us craves new experiences and finds anticipation in the possibilities of the unknown, another [...]

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Preconceived ideas – they can certainly create whirlwinds in our mind, and like cyclones and tornadoes in the natural world, can all too often leave a trail of chaos in their wake. Think of a four year old child, playing by itself on the beach. A large dog bounds up to the child, rears up [...]

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