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if we describe ourselves as "being a bit stretched at the moment" we mean that we are overdoing things

How do we move from inwardly focused and centred around the self to an outward practice of compassionate work in the community?

The Defqon.1 Festival hit Penrith over the weekend and drew a huge crowd to the International Regatta Centre. The event even made its...

Just recently, I went to a talk by Hugh Mackay on “community”. I was nodding my head as he talked about rampant consumerism and how it...

I read an article recently that described Iyengar yoga as being in search of the "perfect" pose. My first reaction was defensive: That's...

Traditionally, the practice of yoga asana focused on seated poses. The word ‘asana’ can itself be translated from Sanskrit to mean ‘a...

For this newsletter we pick up where we left off on the last one. We were looking at tools and skills that yoga can offer. One of those is that we learn to deal with the "afflictions", which prevent us thinking clearly.These specific notes come from the discussion notes from a workshop where the theme was "Body Image and Relationships with Food". The concept of how our thinking can get clouded is applicable to us all in one way or another, although the actual examples given h

If you’ve ever imposed a lifestyle change on yourself, whether it be around food, drink, smoking, or exercise, you’ll know that it doesn’t always last. But yoga takes a different tack. Rather than impose, yoga can change us from the inside. Just last week one of our students was saying that he’d gone off the idea of having a red wine that evening, following a backbend class. Not that there’s anything wrong with red wine, but the student just had a feeling that the wine might

A friend of mine is currently on a retreat near Kathmandu in Nepal. It’s a three month retreat and it’s closed. Which means three months...