notes & news
'notes & news' began in response to requests share writings, poetry, thoughts, philosophy, research, or inspirations woven into what I offer in conversation, classes, and workshops ... enjoy browsingYou get to choose!
Pratyabhijna hrdayam: The sutra from the philosophical school emphasizing recognition of the heart … 20 sutras, the first 9 speak about the universal and in sutra 10 Carlos Pomeda says is a pivotal point where we understand that we are creating our...
rethinking pain
Last weekend, along with 250 others from various modalities working with health, I attended a 3 day training in Explain Pain with NOIgroup with Lorimer Moseley, David Butler and Peter O'Sullivan, learning about recent understandings about pain,...
courageous contribution
Hanuman is a symbol for integrity, contribution, strength of heart and devotion to something beyond himself. Through literally taking the leap he came to know himself as more than he thought he was (he found out that he was the son of the...
We are Inter-becoming
We are a continual process of exchange with our environment. I have been reflecting on a statement from a.youtube clip I watched over the break from a 2016 presentation by Tom Chi, inventor and co-founder of Google X “We are a continuous flame...
Rest!
The week of the spring equinox, one of the two equinoxes in the year where length of daylight and length of night are balanced. It is a tipping point, a pause, as we move into the time of year that is dominated by light. This week we honoured the...
Spring cleaning, decluttering and clearing
With the support of the energy of spring all around us, we are invited to widen our vision, to open to the possibilities … for the new to come, we need to let go of the clutter. Just as our cupboards and wardrobes can get full and we can’t fit...
The Ruby Inside
When the unlimited source contracts into the form of an individual, into each of us, we as individuals experience ourselves as incomplete or imperfect, and therefore we yearn for whatever we think we need for completion. Rāga and is said to be the...
Spaciousness of Being
From the Kashmir Shaivite philosophy of yoga we are each seen as being unique expressions of the one, the divine, the source. As such we, as individuals, experience cloakings that have us feel limited and the tradition outlines 5 ways in which we...
Are we human-beings or human-doings?
Yoga philosophy offers the very useful concept of the Kanchukas. Kalā, one of the kanchukas is the cloak has us feeling as though we need to do more, or do something different or strive harder to be ok. As a reforming perfectionist and...
Expanding our sense of time
Gurupurnima happens every year on the full moon in July and is and a time to honour and celebrate the guru principle. The guru principle is anything that connects us with an experience of that which is bigger than our limited sense of ourselves....
Align, Connect, and be Uplifted … literally!
On Sunday I offered the Embodied Anatomy workshop and on Wednesday began a new Foundations of yoga course for beginners. One of the things I really hope to help us all recognise in these offerings and in our ongoing classes, is that we are unique...
honouring autumn’s growing darkness
We often see the darkness in negative terms, we think we want an endless summer … however it is in the darkness that we retreat, gather the harvest, and let go so we can prepare for next phase of growth. Yoga philosophy says that in the darkness...