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Category Archives: Life
Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 5: Wisdom – The Intellectual Body – Part 2
Selected extracts from the second half of the fifth chapter: This is not yoga by the body for the body, but yoga by the body for the mind, for the intelligence. … The intelligence we are now developing depends upon … Continue reading
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Tagged asana, health, intelligence, iyengar, meditation, wisdom, Yoga
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Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 5: Wisdom – The Intellectual Body – Part 1
Selected extracts from the first half of the fifth chapter: Our individual intelligence, though an essential rudder to guide us, is merely a puny offshoot of cosmic intelligence, which is the organising system of the universe. This intelligence is everywhere … Continue reading
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Tagged Yoga, sleep, iyengar, intelligence, wisdom, rest, insomnia
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Every hour you work over 40 hours a week is making you less effective and productive over both the short and the long haul
If the boss asks you to work 50 hours, you work 55. If she asks for 60, you give up weeknights and Saturdays, and work 65. Odds are that you’ve been doing this for months, if not years, probably at … Continue reading
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Tagged 40-hour week, efficiency, overtime, overworked, stress
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Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 4: Clarity – The Mental Body (Manas)
Quotations I’ve selected from the forth chapter of Iyengar’s Light on Life. You cannot hope to experience inner peace or freedom without understanding the workings of your mind and of human consciousness in general. … With right perception and understanding … Continue reading
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Tagged consumerism, ego, intelligence, iyengar yoga, manas, mind, wisdom
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Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 3: Vitality – The Energy Body (Part 2)
Selected extracts and quotations I’ve chosen from the third chapter (Part 2): The destructive nature of hatred is everywhere evidenced in intolerance, violence and war. But it also exists in our own lives when we wish others ill or … Continue reading
Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 3: Vitality – The Energy Body
Selected extracts from the third chapter (Part 1) Prana is the energy permeating the universe at all levels. It is physical, mental, intellectual, sexual, spiritual, and cosmic energy. … Prana is special because it carries awareness. It is the vehicle … Continue reading
Russell Brand and Daniel Pinchbeck have a chat under a neon fish in front a pagan altar
In this video, Russell and Daniel talk about consciousness, media, conditioning, drugs, physics, capitalism. Some quotes: RB: “People have been – beyond trained – coded to not anticipate change, to think that change is implausible, like we’ve had revolution bred … Continue reading
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Tagged passive consumers, spiritual being, states of consciousness, tower bridge
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Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 2: Stability – Part 2
Chapter 2: Stability – The Physical Body (Asana) – Part 2: Here are some more extracts and quotes I found valuable in the second part of this chapter: The mind does not balance when you force. … After reaching the … Continue reading
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Tagged art of meditation, art of relaxation, doors of perception, iyengar, light on life, Yoga
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Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 2: Stability – Part 1
Extracts from Chapter 2: Stability – The Physical Body (Asana) It’s a long chapter, so this is Part 1: Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. … Continue reading
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Tagged iyengar, light on life, Yoga
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Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 1: The Inward Journey
Extracts from Chapter 1: The Inward Journey: Most of us think of our “body” as simply our physical form—our skin, bones, muscles, and internal organs. For yoga, however, this is only the outermost layer of our body or annamaya kosa. … Continue reading
Light on Life by BKS Iyengar
I am reading Light on Life by Iyengar, slowly and somewhat surely, as is my way. I thought I’d share some extracts and quotes as I read and practice. Whereas Light on Yoga looks in detail at the practice of … Continue reading
Meanwhile, in 1997… Torn Between This and The Other
All around is apparent evidence that normality is actuality. People seem OK, mostly, muddling on, the shops open and close, the days go by. Unless you explore and delve and experience you may not know anything different, living in blissful(?) … Continue reading
Stephen Fry on the fate of the Cambridge graduate
I have just finished the revealing and enjoyable ‘The Fry Chronicles’. An extract: Revising finalists under chestnut trees, books and notes spread out on the grass as they smoke, drink, chatter, flirt, kiss and read. Garden parties on every lawn … Continue reading
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In a new way
A seashore Keyboards slowly, pipes A resonant rumble The sound of the sea with triangle jingles The sea is replaced by deep bass, in and out, pulsing Desolate shores, life forming Crawling from the waters, adventuring upwards Towards the sun … Continue reading
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110208 Alton to Selborne
Yoga when I woke up, then breakfast before driving to Selborne. From there I caught the bus to Alton so I could walk the first part of the Hangers Way back to Selborne. The path is 21 miles long and … Continue reading
100215 Feeling the fear and doing it anyway
It’s all caught up with me today, almost exhausted after the moving, decorating, the underlying emotions of C moving, the work on the flat here and this evening, the yoga teaching. I didn’t have much ooomph for the class but … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Journal, Life, Yoga
Tagged fear, nerves, postaday2011, teaching, Yoga
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USA, Late 30s and Early 40s In Colour
Superb colour photos of life in America 1939-42
Notices (29 July 2010)
– I listen to the seconds tick and they seem to be somewhat in a hurry. Or maybe it’s me, because sometimes they seem incredibly leisurely – When I breathe it originates from the back of the nose. When the … Continue reading
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Entity
It is entirely unclear if such thing as an entity as me exists. It seems like there is, in an everyday way. Everyone, mostly everyone, thinks there is. But when I look into it, it seems very uncertain, slippery, shady. … Continue reading
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Where are we?
Driving along the road. How come this is even happening? Sure, I understand evolution, of us and of technology. So me driving a car is happening. But what’s it happening in? What is this world? I know what it is … Continue reading
