Savasana- the easiest or most difficult pose? I have always loved Savasana – “corpse pose” – the final resting place at the end of every class. A beautiful posture that is waiting for us like a treat after all our hard asana work.  We lie down on our backs and some of us drift off immediately Continue reading »

TRIKONASANA – A POSTURE TO STRENGTHEN MIND AND BODY During this block of sessions we will look in depth at a few individual postures and what they can bring to our lives.  In the yoga session we will study the alignment and “getting into the posture”  however,  reminding ourselves that there “is no perfect posture” Continue reading »

I don’t know about you, but when I was a child the new school term used to fill me with a mixture of excitement and trepidation.  New pencil case, new shoes, sharpened crayons and looking forward to seeing my friends again versus “where will I be sitting?”, “will I be able to do the work?” Continue reading »

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”  Anais Nin In our practice recently we have been looking at the 8 Limbs of Yoga: the second Limb being the Niyamas – contracts with oneself (as opposed with the first Limb, Continue reading »

The fourth Niymama is Svadhyaha … or study of oneself in order to bring deeper self-knowledge and understanding.   Yoga opens us up to a beautiful space and opportunity to observe ourselves in a quiet and peaceful way and by doing so to learn, amongst other things, about our moods and emotions. It helps us understand Continue reading »

Santosha is about contentment and peace in our daily lives.   So often we fret about the future and worry about the past …neither of which do us any good and just leave us feeling discontented. So we can practice Santosha by: staying calm in success and failure… noticing the breath, breathing deeply, slowly and smoothly Continue reading »

On our journey through the Eight-Fold Path of Yoga we now move from looking at the Yamas to the Niyamas – the second limb of Yoga according to the teachings of Patanjali. And the first of these is Saucha – usually defined as  cleanliness and purification and protection of the energy that is around and Continue reading »

In this day and age, with constant stimulation to have more, buy more etc, it can be so difficult to allow ourselves to be with what we have and spend time really appreciating this, rather than wishing we had more or wishing our lives were different…….. “taking the time to smell the roses” is such Continue reading »

Brahmacharya, the fourth Yama, is about conservation of energy – including sexual energy, and as such was often the most unpopular Yama. It is about the diversion of energy towards yoga and spiritual growth.  In this day and age we can look at Brahmacharya in a much more wide sense. It is about drawing our Continue reading »

As we continue on our journey through the 8 Limbs of Yoga we remind ourselves that the first limb is the Yamas which supports harmonious relationships with ourselves and others …. Simply put, Asteya, the third yama,  is non-stealing and also the concept of being content with what comes to us by honest means …. Continue reading »