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Healing is Boring
I think healing has been glamourized. We have all become enamored by the fancifulness that surrounds healing. Healing seems esoteric, grandiose. It has been so deeply interwoven with the consumptive wellness culture that you can …
10 Lessons to Love Life
Life can be tricky and troubling and sometimes we feel ungrounded and lost. Sometimes when this happens, I write a list of reminders to myself and I thought you would like to read my most …
Boundaries: Why and How?
The year I turned forty, I was sick all the time. I had multiple rounds of antibiotics for chronic sinusitis and tonsillitis. It took me a little while to accept that I was exhausted. I …
Free Your Mind: Yoga Philosophy & Psychology
Free Your Mind Click the link above and listen to a talk by Jean Byrne PhD on the intersection of Yoga, Buddhism and Western Psychology. Identify some unhelpful thinking styles and learn about samskaras, deep …
Restorative Yoga at Home: Theory & Practice
(Join me for a Spring Flourish Mini Retreat Saturday September 7th with Restorative Yoga!) Last year we (re)introduced a restorative yoga practice to our schedule at Yoga Space each Friday at 5:30 called Freedom Fridays …
Bring Ritual Into Your day
Each day has its own ebb and flow, and there is no set plan that guarantees us inner peace and tranquillity. But for when things get tough emotionally and mentally the ritual or rhythms that …
Pranayama: The Art of Breathing
Breath is part of our daily life; indeed it is part of what defines our existence, the ability to breathe. Our relationship to air is essential to understanding our beginnings and end. Our first breath …
More Love, Less Hate
More love, less hate. I have been feeling a little unsteady these past few days. Partly it is the need for some rest, which I have been taking. But I realised it is not just …
Five Reasons for Women to Practice Yoga
There are so many reasons that yoga is a wonderful practice. When taught correctly yoga is for everybody, men, women, young, old, well or sick. Yoga has something to offer across the lifecyle and can …
Asteya: You are Enough
Asteya: Non-Stealing Put simply Asteya means not to steal. Most of us don’t steal property, so the meaning of Asteya needs to be more nuanced to for our practice flourish. Informed by Buddhism, my personal …