Yoga in One Syllable

“Learn to go beyond your limits”. It’s a popular self-help mantra of many modern gurus. Our world seems full of people, books and billboards telling us we don’t need to live according to our limits. That instead we should push beyond them. I’m not going to deny that our mind can keep us trapped by [...]

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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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Almost four decades ago a book called “The Limits to Growth” was released. Funded by the Club of Rome it modeled the possible consequences of a rapidly growing population and the finite resources our environment can supply: it outlined limits. Yet the idea that growth may be limited is not generally popular policy: twenty years [...]

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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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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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Have you ever noticed that often when you arrive somewhere your mind is trailing 20 minutes behind? Either that, or it’s raced 20 minutes ahead. You may have got to work, sat down on your chair and turned your computer on, but you’re still thinking about the morning’s traffic jam. Or, as you eat your [...]

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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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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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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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