Black sheep, white sheep, or just asleep?
Maybe you’re neither white nor black, good nor bad. Maybe you’re not even a sheep.Perfection in an asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached. From then on the sadhaka (practitioner) is undisturbed by dualities. –– Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, II.47-48, translation by B.K.S. Iyengar […]
How to turn on your willpower and stick to your yoga practice
I used to think that willpower was a moral issue. Good, strong people did difficult tasks first thing every morning and never lost their self-control when they were tired or hungry. Bad, weak people failed because they didn’t have the moral fibre to do what was right in the moment. My concept of willpower was […]
News Flash: I have a skeleton!
On the left, Arthur. On the right, my wonderful and generous physiotherapist, Judy Russell. Well, of course I’ve always had bones. But now I have a 30-inch tall anatomically correct skeleton, named Arthur. He is nowhere as big as a full-sized skeleton, but he’s engagingly solid, and while the top of his head is missing, […]