We support your Ashtanga yoga as a lifestyle with the Keen on Yoga blog. Adam and our network of colleagues, peers and friends provide content to help with challenges and struggles you may encounter along the way. All branches of practice are covered, including asana, yoga philosophy and healthy eating.
Our aim is that by sharing this journey of practice from many angles and perspectives and combined years of experience, we can lend a hand in not only guiding but inspiring, enriching and supporting your process.
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The Yoga Teacher-Student Relationship
Is it really such a big deal, after all? Can’t we be adults about it like any normal relationship, apply our regular ‘boundaries’ and operate...
Emotions in Asanas
It is assumed in the yoga process that we are trying to escape from our emotions. However, this may be the end result, that we...
Eight Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
The eight limbs of Ashtanga yoga literally translated means 8 limbed yoga ashto = eight and anga = limb. This structure has its origins in...
Is Ashtanga Yoga Hard?
"Is Ashtanga Yoga Hard?" I am asked this question often and it's asked a most common internet search. Well, as always, it depends on what...
The Yoga Sutras on Practice
It is often assumed when we get into yoga that or development in practice is about increasing our ‘specialness’. Indeed, it’s hard to view it...
Escaping Thought in Yoga
The Bias of Language About Ourselves and The World Western thinking never questions the I that is thinking. Thought then springs from the confused root...
Quality Over Quantity in Practice – Less is More
The trouble is, from every angle in the modern-world these days we are given to believe that more is, indeed, always, more. We have been...
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...
Thoughts on Mysore
Mysore, the home of Ashtanga yoga. The Authorised Teacher. The Mysore Magic If Sharath sees it, it must be OK. Paying respects Stability, patience and...
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...
When Should We Take a Break From Asana Practice?
When should we take a break from asana practice is a question I am often asked. Yoga is wider than the physical only. So, practice...
Yoga Adjustments
Nb. This is me, I admit. All of us change over time with experience - as these photos show. My attitude towards adjustments has changed...
Yoga: Tradition or Freedom?
[Nb: picture shows a non traditional formulation of Ardha badha panda paschimatanasana. In this case I am working the thoracic area rather than pulling forward...
Ashtanga and Addiction
Am I addicted to my Yoga Practise, and is this a problem? We are all addicts. It’s the nature of life; we want the pleasurable,...
My Experience Learning to Eat For Health
I used to feel overwhelmed shopping in supermarkets. This is not to exaggerate; the experience of staring at aisles full of choices often meant I...
The Loneliness of the Long Term Mysore Practitioner
‘Less is more’. (Pierre Seghir, one of my first teachers, Crete) ‘The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart....
A Question of Yoga Diet
We started with a food-blog over 10 years ago. We called it ‘Yogi’s kitchen’. The recipes and pictures chronicled our new-found Veganism and exposure...
Is Stopping Students in Practice a Useful Teaching Technique?
This is the current style of teaching as it’s passed down from Mysore. Teachers trained here usually carry on this approach where sometimes the...
What We Can Learn From Reading The Ancient Greeks
Feelings + Reasoning = Happiness We’ve heard of Socrates, maybe, Plato and Aristotle, but we’re used to thinking of all this as not...
Tips for Downward Facing Dog
(Adho mukha svanasana) This is a posture you probably spend most time in throughout your whole practice. It’s fundamental then, that we get...
If It’s Not About Stretching, What is Yoga?
There's a myth going on now that stretching and being flexible is an unquestionable goal. Somewhere along the line, the ability to touch your toes,...
How To Avoid The Pitfalls of Guru Worship
The fact that we hurt each other is hardly surprising. That we are able to turn a blind eye to each other’s suffering, neither. Truly,...
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