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Lime Spiked Rice Noodles with Edamame – Mary Taylor Freeman Guest Post Recipe
Mary Taylor Freeman began studying yoga in 1971, soon after she came home from France with a grande diplôme from Julia Child’s cooking school, L’Ecole...
Ashtanga Yoga Myths
In a group talk with students the other day someone referred to a teacher as being strict. This got me wondering what that actually meant, and...
Yoga For Uncertainty
Yoga is learning how to ‘un-know’ Patanjali starts The Yoga Sutras ‘now starts yoga’. This, seemingly obvious statement is, perhaps, the most profound he makes. ...
Developing a Home Yoga Practice
Developing a home yoga practice can feel daunting but it does not need to be so. The Mysore style of Ashtanga self-practice can however, be...
Ashtanga in Mysore
Ashtanga in Mysore Mysore, the home of Ashtanga yoga. The Authorised Teacher. The Mysore Magic If Sharath sees it, it must be OK. Paying respects...
Whos’ the Darth Vadar in the room?
Are we not meant to be doing Ujayi? We have all been in a class where one person is offering a reasonable challenge to our...
What is Hatha Yoga?
The term ‘hatha’ is quite widely and generally translated as relating to the intention in balancing sun-moon (ha-tha), representative of the same effort directed towards...
Ashtanga Yoga Moon Days
Even as a relative beginner, you get to know about Ashtanga yoga moon days pretty early on. The idea of taking a day off or...
Benefits of Ritual and Routine in Ashtanga
Perhaps, the most helpful aspect of the way Ashtanga yoga is set up is down to the sense of routine or ritual it adds to...
Book Review – Yoga and Ayurveda
Book Review Yoga and Ayurveda (David Frawley, lotus press 1999) Ayurveda is essential for any serious yoga student. For, Yoga is the science of Knowledge,...
Practicing Yoga Through The Winter
Every season has a quality; both metaphorically, to do with the changes in life, but also, literally, as embodied in the yearly cycle. Yoga is...
The Lifestyle of Ashtanga Yoga and Relationships
To get up regularly, early in the morning, demands discipline. But more than this it demands a whole lifestyle. Because, in order that morning Practise...
