‘Are you safe with yourself?’
‘Are you safe with yourself? Am I safe with myself?’ These were questions that Donna Farhi put to us on a recent yoga intensive in Manchester. Donna enlarged upon the question by saying ‘Can you look after yourself and speak to yourself as kindly as your very, best f
How to do Trikonasana – the fluid way
Back in 1991, I had my first experience of Body-Mind Centering® on the beautiful Greek island of Skyros. ‘Sense millions of cells in your body….. expanding and condensing in a breathing rhythm all of their own’, said our teacher, Jens Johannsen. Then we basked in the
Community
For a shy, retiring sort like me, this has been quite a week. It began with last Sunday’s British Wheel of Yoga Northern Region AGM in Durham and ended yesterday with the North Yorkshire BWY Federation at Poppleton, York. I was the teacher at both these events. Much has happened
In the Harbour or out at Sea?
‘A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.’ I read this quote by John A. Shedd in class last week. A lot of discussion was provoked by very few words. As one student said, “there’s a lot in there”. Some of the comments related d
October 07, 2012
The Discomfort Zone
Last Thursday I went to a preview of Northern Ballet‘s production of Ondine – due to open for the first time at the Yorkshire Playhouse on Septembe
Touch is a touchy subject
The English Language has many metaphors for behaviour and feeling using skin and touch. ‘Thick-skinned’ folk lack sensitivity or ‘tact’. Tact – from the Latin ‘tactus’ meaning touch – is to delicately touch another. If someone ‘get
Rehab
No, I’m not secretly recovering from an alcohol or drug addiction. A while back I wrote a blog about getting injured and the challenges that posed. My re-habilitation/path to recovery has been slow but illuminating. I’ve learned that on the whole, allopathic doctors have
Not walking on water yet
Super-normal accomplishment is known in yogic texts as a siddhi – becoming very light or walking on water for example. Sometimes there seems to be an expectation of yoga teachers to have ‘super powers’ – to be invincible and beyond life’s vicissitudes – so that no pain, injury, exhau
The Tethered Camel
A couple of weeks ago I was saying to one of my students that I wished I was free to travel to exotic, far-flung places and attend yoga workshops of special interest to me, but how the constraints of my teaching schedule prevented me from doing these things. She said “Ahhhh R
March 09, 2012
The Way of the Worrier
“You could worry the hind legs off a donkey” my Mother used to say to me when I was a teenager. She was right, and my tendency to be anxious and to worry about things, remained almost constant until I reached my forties. Then I remember marvelling at how much more pleasant life was wi
February 13, 2012
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