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Ashtanga in Winter — Keep it Simple

Ashtanga in Winter — Keep it Simple

It is Winter here in Aotearoa/New Zealand and it's cold, wet and windy in Wellington. This makes the Yoga āsana practice more challenging. When you get to my age (mid sixties) its like pick-a-part of the body to be sore this week. All these little aches and pains...

“The Professor” & Imagery Borrowed from the Bhagavad Gita.

“The Professor” & Imagery Borrowed from the Bhagavad Gita.

On my first few trips to Mysore in the 'nineties I would study Sanskrit chanting with a beautiful man called Professor Nairayanācarya (please forgive me if I have spelt that incorrectly as I knew him as “The Professor”). A small group of us Western yoga students would...