A beautiful book and very thought provoking...highly recommended!
Click this link to find out more...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeZgoQeebv4
Monday, 21 June 2010
Friday, 18 June 2010
Mandala - a meditation just watching it!
This is a wonderful video...click to see it...
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/02/a-mandala-in-minutes/
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/02/a-mandala-in-minutes/
Saturday, 12 June 2010
BBC turns yoga patent facts "on their head"
BBC turns yoga patent facts "on their head"
The above link shows the 'twist' (pun intended), that the BBC applied to it's recent report on the Indian Government applying a patent to yoga postures.
The above link shows the 'twist' (pun intended), that the BBC applied to it's recent report on the Indian Government applying a patent to yoga postures.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Copyright Yoga?
Image copyright (c) Esprit Yoga 1993I nearly choked this morning on the school run. There I was happily driving to the school, Radio 4's Today programme in the background. Only I nearly crashed the car with the news that the Indian Government is looking to patent nearly a thousand yoga postures.
The fact that Radio 4 also used this as their closing article of the programme was doubly shocking!
To find out more and to also hear the broadcast, click below...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8730000/8730058.stm
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Beginnings & Endings
Today marks the end of a 3-month training in teaching meditation. When I first enrolled, I had this fanciful idea that I would be given the perfect excuse to just 'sit' for the sheer pleasure of it.
This was my downfall.
The journey through the course has had many twists and turns. Late night angst of whether or not to give it all up. Questions asked of myself and my abilities. Giving up sugar for a week and then finding I don't 'need' the substance in my life (quite a revelation).
You guessed it reader, it's not been an easy path. But sitting here now, on the final, final day of it all, I'm in this wonderful place of ease. Maybe some of that sukha (ease) can be attributed to the fact that I know I haven't got any more coursework to do(!) However, some of it is recognising the journey and the many places I've been taken to in my internal world whilst struggling to really work through the yamas and the niyamas. The pages in my journal being testament to the inner rage when faced with aspects of the self which aren't always pretty.
Meditation is a wonderful tool for life. In between the difficulties, there have been wonderful glimpses of being one with everything - however fleeting the moment.
I have also come to truly understand the power of pranayama on the mind.
So whilst today marks the ending, I am very excited at the beginnings that will follow.
This was my downfall.
The journey through the course has had many twists and turns. Late night angst of whether or not to give it all up. Questions asked of myself and my abilities. Giving up sugar for a week and then finding I don't 'need' the substance in my life (quite a revelation).
You guessed it reader, it's not been an easy path. But sitting here now, on the final, final day of it all, I'm in this wonderful place of ease. Maybe some of that sukha (ease) can be attributed to the fact that I know I haven't got any more coursework to do(!) However, some of it is recognising the journey and the many places I've been taken to in my internal world whilst struggling to really work through the yamas and the niyamas. The pages in my journal being testament to the inner rage when faced with aspects of the self which aren't always pretty.
Meditation is a wonderful tool for life. In between the difficulties, there have been wonderful glimpses of being one with everything - however fleeting the moment.
I have also come to truly understand the power of pranayama on the mind.
So whilst today marks the ending, I am very excited at the beginnings that will follow.
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