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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Wild Monkey Mind Morning
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
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
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
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