When I first arrived in Sydney I attended a course in the beautiful Japanese healing art, Shiatsu. One of the many insightful teachings I have brought with me from this course was what one of the teachers repeatedly stressed: ‘when you lay your hands on a body, you...
We all have our personal reasons as to why we have taken up a regular yoga practice, and why we keep coming back to it. What got us hooked? We might simply like physical activity and how it makes us feel: – stronger and ‘more bendy’. Some might have a health...
… or how to climb a tower at 90 My Dad has just turned 90, and I have been spending some time with him in Germany. He is still very energetic, completely clear mentally (as much as my Dad can be, being my Dad 😉 and full of beans. Last year he insisted on...
Channel more confidence, creativity, and joy in your life with a basic understanding of your body’s energy centers. It’s too bad our problems don’t stay behind with our shoes when we step into the yoga studio. Too often, we get on the mat feeling...
The more regularly we practice Yoga the more sensitive we become, and more in tune with the change of the seasons. Oriental Medicine acknowledges that certain organs and their functions are related to different seasons. The organs are represented by a network of...
According to Eckhardt Tolle (The Power of Now) the words most used in our vocabulary are ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘mine’, and ‘myself’. In his book ‘A New Earth’, Tolle elaborates on the ‘Ego’ extensively, and his very insightful and apt description of it relates closely to Yoga’s...
