Category Archives: Yoga
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
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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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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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
Kripalu Yoga Videos
It’s been two years since I was in Massachusetts to undertake my yoga teacher training. I studied at the Kripalu Centre, who’s approach to yoga is one of awareness, and spontaneity, whether one wishes to teach or practise a gentle … Continue reading
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Iyengar Workshop with Sheila Haswell
Since Easter I have been attending classes in Winchester with a very good Iyengar yoga teacher, Sandy Bell. This has given me the opportunity to attend additional Iyengar workshops on weekends. The previous two have been for 3 hours in … Continue reading
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Iyengar x2
Two Iyengar yoga sessions over three days. I’m really into it, the lengthening, the opening, the relaxation on the blocks. On Saturday morning I went to a three hour workshop led by a teacher in her 80s, Julie Smith. She … Continue reading
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Iyengar Yoga
This evening, for the first time in about 8 years, I was in an Iyengar class. It was at Compton, south of Winchester, with a teacher called Sandy. I really appreciate the attention to detail and the time given to … Continue reading
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110315 Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training; Seven Stars Yoga
Three times yoga: a session this morning running through this evening’s class; teaching this evening; then to Petersfield for a new evening class. The evening class was a new style of yoga to me, called Seven Stars Yoga. They are … Continue reading
110301 Marching
March no less. Feeling so much better, the sick dizzy feeling a mile away and the tight head easing up. Yoga. Yoga. Yoga. It’s the bomb. For real. I recommend the Sivananda sequence. It’s a classical sequence of 12 major … Continue reading
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110227 Yogi/Surfer’s Path
Back to the yoga with a delicious Sivananda session first thing. That routine really ticks all the boxes for me. This morning I was really feeling the sickness of the last couple of weeks and breathing with it. I felt … 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
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110214 Domesticity
Finally got everything put away in its right place. The bedroom is now a study as well: The kneeling chair is C’s but she’s not using it so I get to have it for my desk. And the living room: … Continue reading
Random Photo – Devon School of Yoga Foundation Course – Pool
Long before the teacher training I undertook at Kripalu in the States, there were two yoga foundation courses I took in the south west. One was with The British Wheel of Yoga in Bideford and the other with the independent … Continue reading
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110201 Mean World Syndrome
I taught yoga at Brockwood Park School this evening – a weekend class open to students, mature students and staff. I kept to the same format as last year, a gentle class with relaxation at the beginning and end, plenty … Continue reading
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26 Jan 2011
This is the last day of my 30s, or until 1530 tomorrow afternoon so I am not quite middle aged yet. What is middle aged is the amount of steps stepped today: 2961. One of my 40-something resolutions is to … Continue reading
25 Jan 2011
Steps I stepped: 4864. A walk around the supermarket this evening was 1300 steps. Step step step. I’m so very tired now. If I write little bits of the blog during the day, that’s going to be easier. Our new … Continue reading
5 Jan 2011
When the room is stale, you open a window and let the clean air in. The lungs get stale too. After a night’s sleep the air at the base of the lungs is rather old and needs refreshing. The complete … Continue reading
