My passion to champion yoga
My yoga on tv appearance, and my wish for yoga to be incorporated into education.
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Yoga & Sound Healing Holistic Therapy
When I compiled my accumulated insights and practices of yoga for my Yoga Training material a few years ago, my appreciation of the vast efficiency and practical benefit of the yoga system grew to even higher levels than I already experienced. As an offshoot to these training modules came the opportunity to consolidate my 30…
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What the yogi sees
Atha yoga anushasanam! The view of the chakras and energy fields have been invisible to most human beings for a long, long time. Including yoga practitioners. We may be on the mat, or on meditation cushions, but we are also in a society that has literally zero belief in the esoteric core of metaphysical yoga….
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Know, nourish & grow
To understand Self and Oneself, in the world, is to nourish oneself in self-knowledge, and grow in wisdom. This is what I share in my yoga classes and training, because this is what interests me, and it makes more sense to me than anything else. Early on in my teaching career I had three symbols made…
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OM Potency & Divine Essence
OM Potency OM is the sound made in Yoga to connect with the non-duality of Everything. In a universe of consciousness it represents all expressions of the Life Fore. Its totality is the Godhead. When OM is sounded in the body, in awareness and appreciation of All That Is, the practitioner becomes one with all…
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The Seven Chakra Magnificent Essence of Yoga
Seven portals of an incredible energy system The chakras are an interface of vortex-like portals between the body and the Life Force. Seven major chakras are stacked from the root of the spine, along the trunk, to the crown of the head, each chakra connected to a specific anatomical centre i.e. heart or pineal and pituitary. They are an energetic…
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Divine yoga consciousness
For me “the divine” is a state of expansion and inclusion, i.e. holistic. It’s not “higher”, rather exalted while also including the “lower realms”. In yoga this may mean “union”, all aspects of the whole. One may think of it as an inner state of consciousness that includes everything. A state reached in meditation, also a state…
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Meditation can be short, sweet & easy
Meditation is at the centre of yoga practice. Not only sitting in meditation, also the meditative awareness while practicing asana. Without it yoga would be “unconscious”, and not yoga. Asana and pranayama practice was actually promoted by ancient yogi’s as a means to meditation as their ultimate goal. Meditation, as mindfulness/awareness, and as a spiritual practice, can be thought…
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Go within. Be the change.
The simple act of drawing the breath deeply, slowly into the body, and breathing out, with focus, soothes the nervous system. The bodymind is instantly stilled, and energised. The breath itself enhances absorption of oxygen and elimination of toxins. In a matter of a few minutes practice much life force is taken in. We use this easy breath and meditation technique in…
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Self-realisation & Yoga Part 2 – Meditation
Meditation is the essence of yoga and the key to self-realisation Continued from Part 1, the preceding blog Self-realisation & Yoga. Yoga says “self” can only be known in meditation. And it instructs us to meditate in the body, utilising the “bodymind”, as a whole. to know self. This is why “yoga” also means to “yoke”, or…
