Honouring your Cycle Like everything else in nature our bodies and lives flow in rhythms and cycles. When we are in tune with our body's rhythms and cycles we flow gracefully through our experiences, our health is good, and our relationships steady, while any disturbance in our natural order typically results in disharmony and dis-ease. [...]
Why Iyengar Yoga? by Carole Hart certified Iyengar teacher First published in Well Being magazine, March 2004 Why yoga? If you ask people what they really want from life, most won't say "a new car", "a bigger house" or "a better job". What most people want is very simple: they want to be happy and [...]
POSTED APRIL 15, 2015, 4:26 PM , UPDATED FEBRUARY 28, 2017, 9:48 AM Julie Corliss Executive Editor, Harvard Heart Letter As a long-time yoga enthusiast, I am always happy to hear about benefits newly attributed to this ancient practice. Doing yoga for a few hours each week helps me feel calmer and more balanced, both physically [...]
By Christa Norgren  Posted April 3, 2018  In all things human, guest posts Have you ever wondered what will improve your sport performance or prevent sport-related injuries? Doing more of our desired activity may seem like the obvious answer. For example, if we want to improve performance in swimming or running, then to do more swimming or running would [...]
Most of us, even the healthiest, spend the majority of our lives sitting at a desk, behind the wheel of a car, or in some other seated forward facing position. We narrow our focus to the small screen directly in front of us, literally or figuratively, then we stand up with the weight of the [...]
As a yoga teacher I am frequently asked what style of yoga it is that I teach. My reply resonates that of the renowned teacher, Mark Whitwell: “I teach yoga …there is only ONE yoga!†Most of the yoga styles practised in the Western world today can be traced back to one teacher, Sri Tirumalai [...]
Hi John I hope you’ve been well. The new website looks great! It’s been difficult to find grounding again since I came back from London a month ago. Normally yoga would be a practice that would provide me with this. The studio I’m living in currently is a shoebox which I can barely fit a [...]
The union of the individual soul with the universal soul is said to be yoga. Yoga is no less than the stable state of consciousness. It is nothing but a suspension or pause in the movements of thought waves. See what Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita. Taking the centre body as a plumb [...]
The Illumined Man 47 – 50 Translation by EKNATH EASWARAN You have the right to work but never the fruit of work Never engage in action for the sake of reward Nor should you long for inaction Perform work in this world Arjuna as a man established in himself – without selfish attachments and alike [...]
In our advanced class this week John asked us to close our eyes whilst doing some of the standing balancing poses. From what I could tell, because I had my eyes closed:), it was vastly harder than with the eyes open, which was very interesting to observe. The following is a short excerpt of an [...]
