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Yoga Sutras and Bhakti

Yoga Sutras and Bhakti

I’ve recently been reading BKS Iyengar’s book on the Yoga Sutras. Rather than go through each Sutra one by one in this text Iyengar (who not undeservingly is labelled...

Interview with Cate Peterson

Interview with Cate Peterson

What does Yoga mean to you? To me yoga is about regaining your grasp on the handlebars of your life because life is a wild ride! Every time I do my practice I feel...

The Pathless Path

The Pathless Path

I must confess that I really dislike being asked that question. For sure, it comes from a deep underlying resistance to being pigeon-holed in general, and I fully...

Meditation Made Easy

Meditation Made Easy

I think it took me almost twenty years, and lots of stops and starts and dead-ends, to establish a regular meditation practice. At one level, we simply have to realise...

Are you Ready to Teach Yoga?

Are you Ready to Teach Yoga?

If you're considering a Yoga teacher training course, you may find the doubts come not too far behind. Are you really ready? Have you done enough? How can you really...

Nancy in Shoelace pose

So what is Yin and what poses do we do in a Yin class?

Yin poses are held from 1 to 10 minutes and are a slow, quiet practice letting gravity assist open hips, release neck, shoulders and the lower back.