Ah, the Vegetarian one…. Generally one of the first and most common responses to taking on this practice, to abstain from doing harm, is to become vegetarian. And sadly, all too often that is where the practice of Ahimsa begins and ends. Well if only it were as simple as striking meat off the shopping …
I was squandering time on Facebook the other day and I came across an article which was basically begging dancers to STOP posting youtube videos of themselves doing choreographed ‘Yoga’ as it’s narcissistic.. Well… Yes… I absolutely get that. And there is a culture of Lululemon clad carb avoiding Stepford Yoginis out there for sure.. …
A Poem Inspired by Gilbert and Sullivan I am the very model of a modern Yoga therapist, A Yoga Sutra Mantra chanting Urban Liberationist, An Osho shaking meditating integrated activist, I wander through the forests smoking Shiva pipes with cannabis.. I love to self deny I’ve done the Raw Juice and the Master Cleanse, Kriya …
As I write this it is just a couple of days after Beltane- the ancient Pagan fire celebration and I have been reading some of the poetry of Taliesin and reflecting on magical tradition. The use of fire in transformation. How the practice of Yoga utilizes Agni- the internal fire of transformation. I have been …
Yoga and the fiery heart of love- The Agony of Agni Read More »
Depression. The very word is weighty. The weight of sorrow pressing down on you, the pain you go through when you feel disconnected. Like an observer of life and not a participant. Sometimes in my Yoga journey I have been hit with the darkest waves of hopelessness. Days where I didn’t even know it was …
Yoga and Depression… Dancing through the darkness……. Read More »
Fear. It is something I have both experienced very recently, and been thinking about a lot. I looked up a definition of it online and found: ’a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid’ and then synonyms for it …
Yoga and Fear – How to end the reign of the False Emperor Read More »
Like pretty much everyone else in the country I watched the Russell Brand interview last year. Enjoyed the mixed reviews he got. That is, on the one hand he is an idealistic fool who has his head in the clouds, high on his own adulation (now he’s given up the drugs) and too much of …
Yoga holidays. To be honest they are not something I usually do. As if I go away to do Yoga its generally fairly intense and not really a holiday. Like a good month of practice at least, and last time I was in Mysore I was lucky enough to be able to stay for four …
I know that in the past I have written a lot about how people can really get far too hung up on the whole detox thing in the Yoga world.. And how ego hangs out in the detox mentality… as well as Ego’s best mate ‘Self Loathing’.. That said this is a Yoga website and …
Dry July- Tapas Practice and how I beat my Sugar Monster Read More »
Letting Go. The art of letting go, the art of surrender. Humility. These are words and phrases that get bandied around so much in the Yoga world. The workaholic in me always suspected that ‘undoing’ was a cop-out. Paying people to tell you that all you need to do is nothing and the truth is …
