Strong back, soft front

Strong back, soft front

I returned from my three week trip to India on Sunday. I find India an incredible place; challenging, contradictory, chaotic, full of paradox. The experience of being there I feel is exercise to strengthening a way of being in the world that Joan Halifax (a Buddhist...
Tuning & Attuning

Tuning & Attuning

I attended a workshop with Phillip Beach a couple of weekends ago. Phillip Beach suggests that we tune our bodies through spending more time on the floor in what he calls Archetypal Resting Postures (squatting, kneeling, cross legs, half lotus, long sitting,...
Experiment & Experience

Experiment & Experience

Experience and Experiment have the same root Experiment: Purpose of testing something unknown. Experience: Yoga speaks of experience (pratyaksa) as one of the 4 ways of knowing, and the most important one. Play is the way children and adults experiment and learn and...
Fluidity

Fluidity

With fires here in the south of Tasmania, and floods in the north, water has been on the minds of many of us … and Wednesday’s Foundations of Yoga course became a celebration of water as the rain finally fell.Water is universal.Water connects us across...