Playfulness
I learned long ago that muddle and uncertainty can be the melting pot for creativity. The tricky bit is tolerating the discomfort and staying with the process until things unfold. Curiosity and playfulness can help with this. My daughter recently went on a clowning workshop; the parti
April 30, 2011
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Soul of the Home
“Care for our houses….however humble, is also care of the soul. No matter how little money we have, we can be mindful of the importance of beauty in our homes.’’ These are the words of Thomas Moore in ‘Care of the Soul – how to add depth and meaning to your everyday life’
‘Organic’ Yoga
‘Can yoga make you more creative?’ one of my students asked a few years ago. I replied that it seemed to help my own creative process and also my tenacity to see projects through. I asked a few students whose work involved being creative, what they thought? One person said she believe
April 02, 2011
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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
Cellular Breathing
CELLULAR BREATHING In some of the classes this week we began with a cellular breathing visualisation. Everyone began lying prone on their mats (being face down supports the Parasympathetic Nervous System). I began talking them through the visualisation – first with awareness of
January 28, 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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