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A Pause

A Pause

Kashmir Shaivite Philosophy, Life, notes & news, Seasons

As the year comes to an end at the studio, things wrap up, schools break for the holidays the pace picks up and there is a lot of stress in the air. Taking the time to pause is invaluable. The Kanchukas in yoga philosophy are the cloaks obscuring the truth of who we...
Adaptability & Resilience

Adaptability & Resilience

Life, notes & news

  I spent the wild weather weekend in Melbourne at a workshop exploring “Movement Situations” to provoke and increase creative movement adaptability and resilience. It was all about inviting and developing tolerance to the unpredictable, inviting the not knowing and...
Devoted to presence

Devoted to presence

Elements, notes & news

I returned home on Saturday from India. There were many temples in Mysore, not all with the same deity as the focus. The one near us was the Ganesha temple. Ganesh is the elephant headed God. I passed by the temple many times when the priests were performing daily...
strength of heart

strength of heart

Life, notes & news

I write this after having returned from a sudden trip to the United States where we spent last precious time with and witnessed the passing of our Aunt Ellen. Just the previous week I had delivered classes with the theme of strength of heart. Our practice of yoga...
Joy

Joy

Kashmir Shaivite Philosophy, notes & news

The Greek word for joy is chairo which was described by the ancient Greeks as a ‘good mood of the soul’. They recognised that joy comes from internal factors, not from external ones. Contrary to what we are led to believe by advertisers, having something more,...