Yogi Bear

Click on the following link for some pictures that will make you smile!

Yogi Bear

Stone Balancing - Meditation in action

A couple of years ago (if my memory serves me correctly), I read in a copy of Yoga Journal of a man that spent his time balancing rocks and considered it meditation (quite true).

In this week's Daily Mail, the paper ran an article on a man here in the UK balancing stones. The pictures are stunning and I urge you to just take a look at the article.

Should you find yourself at a beach sometime soon, give it a try!

Click here to be taken to the article.

Happiness

I've just started reading Gretchen Rubin's 'The Happiness Project'. It's an easy read and by that I mean it's got a really relaxed feel to it and is not too demanding on the grey mattter! Some of the elements that she suggests I've found an immediate affinity with...for example - Secrets of Adulthood - these are my favourites at the moment...

* People don't notice your mistakes as much as you think
* You don't have to be good at everything
* Most decisions don't require extensive research
* Bring a sweater! (my fave!)

I think the reason that this book was a #1 Bestseller is the appeal for the everyday person. It's easy for the reader to relate to Gretchen's endeavours - decluttering the closet (as an example) and how that leads to de-cluttering everything else in the process.

Relating this to a meditative perspective, we need to be able to take time each day to be able to sit, allow the events of the day to wash over us and then the internal de-cluttering takes place.

I've posted a link on the page so that you can start your own Happiness Project today.

Great way to start the day

I'm in the process of finalising my meditation user-guide for students and was seeking permission from an author to use an extract. The book in question, Open Body, which I have had since it was first published in 1998. I have used this book extensively over the years and it has been a joy.

I dropped an email to the author yesterday (Todd Walton) who replied with a resounding yes to using whatever I want from the book with his blessings!

In addition, he sent me a link to a You Tube video which features music he has just released.

It was a joyous way to start the day and I share it with you now...

Autumn term begins...

The autumn term of yoga teaching kicked off to a great start this week. I started a new Saturday morning class at Femme Fitness in Watford. I'd originally taught at this women-only gym some 9-10 years ago, so was very much a home-coming in a couple of ways.

1) The same old stereo inhabits a corner of the studio space - only now we have i-Pods and the system doesn't support this new technology!

2) Reunions with students I haven't seen for some time, and even one from my original time at the gym all those years ago - magic!

Great start to the weekend!