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Wild Monkey Mind Morning
March 25, 2011
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I had the whole wild monkey mind number going on in my asana practice this morning – chitter chatter, chit chat – a host of unsettling thoughts and doubts. Amongst other things, I could hear my joiner cutting tiles for my new bathroom and knew he wanted a decision from me
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Support from the Earth
March 19, 2011
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
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Acorns to Oak Trees
March 14, 2011
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
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Soft Spine, Fluid Spine
March 07, 2011
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
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Spirals
February 25, 2011
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
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