We get wrong-footed because we rely on the unreliable. What is truly, unerringly reliable? Not much. And you can choose to see that either as cause for despair, or a kind of liberation. All sorts of outrageous-seeming things have happened and will happen to me during my life. ‘Why me?’, I can rage. ‘Why not […]
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If you base your own behaviour on what other people are doing, you will never fulfil your potential. So there I was, getting annoyed with the person next door in my hotel banging and crashing about. I’d tried to be really considerate of the adjoining door in this room by using in-ears to watch Netflix,
Would you have a better time if you stopped taking things so personally? Would you have a better time if you admitted that life will never be exactly how you want it, and so you might as well enjoy it anyway, in amongst the mess? Would you have a better time if you stopped labelling
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I love tigers – but I have no desire to have one in my life. I’m fascinated by documentaries about extreme mountain climbing – but have zero urge to strap on some crampons. And although I have five godchildren and a stepdaugher, all of whom I adore, I have never ever wanted kids of my
Each To Their Own: On Choosing Not To Have Kids Read More »
‘However disturbing or powerful something may appear to be, it is our reaction to it that determines its effects.’ TKV Desikachar What we learn from yoga boils down to one thing: waking up. Waking up from the illusion that all life exists between our ears and that the version we see through our lens is
Get wise, get free – are you reacting or responding? Read More »
Who are you, when you can’t do the thing that you’ve defined yourself by? This is a very real situation for many of us who have spent our entire adult lives working in industries where our job is so much more than what we do for 40 hours a week to make money – it’s
Rock ‘n’ Roll Identity Crisis Read More »
If you follow this blog you’ll know that I’m both a professional sound engineer, and a yoga teacher. Several times recently I’ve assisted fellow teachers who were having sound problems with this new world of Zoom classes, and it occurred to me that a blog with some pointers might be helpful. It’s not something we
Audio basics for better online yoga teaching Read More »
If we could understand what each others’ hearts are saying, would we still be able to harden our own, or would we lose the capacity to hate? It’s much harder to hate someone up close and personal. We can demonise entire races, or exploit entire species for our own gain, if we don’t connect with
Just like us – why are some animals more equal than others? Read More »
It’s been said that we never really experience the world, just our own nervous systems. Everything we come into contact with, we see through the distorted lens of our own life experiences, beliefs, impressions, prejudices, likes and dislikes, ego-identifications, hopes and fears. The Eastern philosophies of Yoga and Buddhism are systems to help us to
Awakenings – are we sleepwalking our way through life? Read More »
According to the yoga tradition, we have four types of desire called the purusharthas. They are dharma, artha, kama, and moksha. Dharma is our soul’s purpose, our reason for being in the world, to bring forth the unique nugget hidden within us, the unique expression of the Universe that we are. Artha is the desire
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