Support from the Earth
Last week I wrote about the Yield and Push developmental movement pattern. Thoughts about yielding continued to travel through my mind since I watched and heard with horror the news of the earthquake and aftermath, in Japan. We gain so much reassurance from our relationship with the g
March 19, 2011
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Acorns to Oak Trees
A regular theme in my classes is ‘Yield and Push’. Through exploring this developmental movement pattern we are aiming for an embodied sense of good alignment in yoga asana that leads to a clear sense of good alignment from within, rather than lots of rules about ‘th
March 14, 2011
Soft Spine, Fluid Spine
In class last week we did the ‘Saggy Cat’ experiment. We investigated how to bring a more fluid connection between body/spine and head/neck in back bends and certain standing poses – and in our daily lives. From ‘all fours’ position – on hands and knees – we im
Spirals
As an artist I’ve always loved to draw curved shapes – the curves of the human form and curves from nature. Straight lines have never had much appeal. I say I can’t draw a straight line but I think the truth is that I’m just not very interested in them. Give me a human body, flowers a
Amanda’s week off – mind blissfully focused on pruning the roses
I’ve found my mind blissfully focused in a week with almost no teaching but with time to attend to my garden. The tasks I most enjoy in the garden are pruning and feeding, and this is the time of year for roses to receive this attention. First I assessed the overall shape and took not
How to Balance Better
..........Having thoroughly polished the studio floor at the Academy, from all the sliding around on blankets, we then paid attention to our feet. We located the Talus bone and noted what a lot of bones there are in the foot - 26. We looked at a brilliant picture
February 12, 2011
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Fluidity in Movement – why we need it and how to find it
In some of last week’s classes we re-visited the theme of fluidity and how to bring a more fluid quality into our movement. Why do we need it, some might ask? There are lots of good reasons. Yoga practitioners can have a tendency to be quite static in their approach to asana a
February 06, 2011
Some thoughts on Happiness
‘Wanting to be happy is what makes you unhappy’ Tim Lott said in the Body and Soul section of The Times recently. Responding to David Cameron’s ‘Happiness initiative’, Lott argued that the pursuit of happiness would only lead to unhappiness. Similarly meditation practitioners who stri
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