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Post Pandemic Ashtanga — Sitting in Silence
It is starting to feel as if we are finally coming out the other side of the Covid pandemic and I've been thinking about how it has changed things and how I am dealing with those changes. Our response to the pandemic and our government's handling of it has been...
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.
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...