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  • The power of breathing through your nose!

    The power of breathing through your nose!

    If you already practice yoga, then you will be familiar with the importance of breathing in an out through the nose, for calming the mind and optimising oxygen intake throughout the body. Yes, we breathe out through the mouth sometimes in yoga, but the essence of the movement practice and the seated meditation is controlled…

  • I like it, I don’t like it

    I like it, I don’t like it

    We operate along gradations of I like it / I don’t like it, seeking pleasure, avoiding pain. This impacts our mood and our interactions. Our mind is always quick to judge ourselves and others and this influences our behaviour and our sense of being. Our brains can’t help producing states of desire and aversion regardless…

  • Your own Parachute

    Your own Parachute

    Imagine doing something that you enjoy and the more you do it the more you get better at it, and it helps you reach heights that you never thought possible? (And no, it’s not parachuting!). Cultivating a regular yoga and meditation practice can prepare you for anything. That sounds like quite a claim but it’s…

  • Observe Yourself

    When the mind and body are in balance it is like the ever present clear blue sky, a vast spaciousness of non-reactivity. What clouds and dulls the mind is negative mental states along the spectrum of I like it, I don’t like it. There is a craving for something or a sense of clinging to…

  • We are what we repeatedly do

    We all have our positive and negative habit energies, cultivated over the course of our lives, a result of conditions and circumstances over time. If we are aware of our negative habit energies or behaviours, then we might choose to do something about them, especially if we start to become aware of the detrimental impact…

  • Out of your head into your body

    The conditioned modality we live in is in our heads. We live in our heads almost all of the time apart from when pain or tension in the body calls us to respond. When we do respond the response is often a head based reaction, a verbal reaction. We often treat our body as if…

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