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In yoga, we believe the universe runs on a system of called karma so that no good or bad deed is ever ove...

The art of listening to the sensations that arise from within your body is called interoception. In meditation ...

But I think the world is becoming a savvier place. More and more I notice people rejecting the hype, the b...

The most obvious, and not unexpected response to this Yoga Retreat, was the early uptake of places by my m...

My interest was piqued when I read an article on the mental health of reality TV stars. How many of these r...

Our modern world is saturated with the ceaseless noise that issues from every corner of our lives and this...

And gardening has always been the pleasure of mystics and poets. Rumi and Hafiz use the analogy of a ga...

We all love order, predictability, and safety. As humans we crave it, and for some people that’s the only wa...

We are all equipped with an intuition that is potent, trustworthy, and impeccably attuned to truth and our...

A bad diet, poor lifestyle practices, a low water intake and a sluggish digestive function all contribute ...

Many people think that prana is just the breath, and although in yoga we use manipulation and awareness ...

There are more signals sent from the heart to the brain than there are from the brain to the heart. Essenti...

In Jane’s defence, she was as vibrant, beautiful and intelligent looking at 76 as she was at 26. A few ...

According to Forbes, more than 10% of USA households rent storage space to hold their extra stuff. Famili...

It’s pretty easy to access a flow state in a good yoga class, particularly if you are familiar with the style...

So, from personal experience I asked her if she and her partner could try to create more space. Why would ...

We talk of YIN yoga being perfect for your joints, your fascia and your connective tissue. But one of the ...

I teach a fair amount of Somatic and Trauma informed Yoga, mainly to private clients. And somatics by its...

I would say at least 60% of my yoga students are empaths or HSPs or a combination of both. Sensitive and in...

Think of your Life boundaries as a metaphor for the boundaries of Self. If there is a breach in any of ...

The Centre, on a perpetual lease from the NSW government, gives one a glimpse of what the eastern seabo...

And a big part of the health of your microbiome is what you eat. If you’ve ever watched the movie Supersize Me,...

In yoga we call this time before dawn from 3.45am to 6am, Brahma Muhurta, the 4th prahar of the night. Bo...

In everyday life, so much of how we think about ourselves, others, and the world is created through conve...

It got me thinking of how much we, ordinary people, love to be in the presence of authentic others. We’ve ...

Your biggest microbiome is in your gut and this unique population of bacteria, fungi and viruses works sy...

This societal ruling went against many Institutions of democracy like the International Covenant on Civ...

The obvious physical causes of gut dysfunction will be explored in depth. Food and food intolerances, aut...

So why do humans love trees so much, and love being in the presence of trees? Forest bathing, known in Jap...

Our automatic stress response fight-or-flight (FORF) served an important purpose. In caveman days, the FORF...

This yoga retreat: Move, Breathe, Love - is all about your biome and how your biome is but a reflect...

Spring is a time for new beginnings, and as the days get longer and warmer, this is a time of expansion rather t...

They were interviewing an animal naturopath and pet whisperer, and one of the statements that really stood ou...

When you spend a lot of time outdoors observing things like weather patterns, wind direction, plant grow...

It’s a generalisation, but fairly true with the majority of women and mothers, and not always a bad thing....

So, what are the psoas muscles and why are they interesting? Well, your psoas connects your lumbar spine to yo...

Now this is someone’s opinion and I wasn’t that interested as to how accurate this opinion was by examinin...

It’s not all gloomy, though. Many people, through innate natural intelligence, realise quite early in li...

A basic property of nature is that forms and patterns are contagious: once something happens somewhere, it ...

So, what is connective tissue? Our body can be described as a collection of specialised cells with diff...

Outside our yoga world, we have had a very exciting Election Day. If you do watch TV, you would have bee...

For beginners, and always accommodating more advanced yogis, the course will progress over the 8 weeks, ta...

In yoga, we believe the spine and back are connected to your physical support systems here on earth. And...

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) was founded in 2010 by food activists, academics and farmers....

Hearing is the first sense we acquire as a foetus. Our experience in the womb is one of both audible and inaud...

Refusing to allow people of pro-choice status to help fill sandbags and clean other people’s houses or ind...

There aren’t many world cuisines that can compete with the array of spices used in Indian cooking. Spices r...

So it is with our VB workshop. After our yoga class, we start thinking about what we want to change in ou...

Distraction is one way of keeping us from the present moment. Noam Chomsky, American linguist, philosophe...

Many of us in the yoga world has been thinking about New Year’s resolutions (NYR). And if the idea of ano...

You can chant a Sanskrit mantra, a beautiful hymn or a prayer. And with Christmas just around the corne...

In yoga, I am always talking about speaking your truth, the pursuit of truth and the courage to step onto a...

Rumi was one of the greatest thinkers, spiritual masters and mystic poets of all time. From the 13th centur...

A movement teacher can often tell what's happening in your physical, mental and emotional world by watchi...

Now fascia is a type of connective tissue that comes from the Latin word for ‘bandage.’ It is like a pl...

One of the loveliest things about being a yoga teacher is the feedback I receive. And the feedback of how the yoga ...

It was a series of seemingly unrelated events that got me thinking about longevity and ageing. I taught Y...

We’ve been practising the last of the yamas in yoga class last week – aparigraha, non-attachment or non-greed....

Oh how we all love spring! There’s something exciting about the rising energy from the earth, the warmer d...

I purposefully include core, and awareness of harnessing our core muscles in every class mainly to stabil...

The yoga retreat was wonderful - a chance to reflect and take stock of our lives, a chance to have fun and relax w...

Mindfulness has become a bit of a trendy word, but it’s a basic tenet of Buddhist meditation techniques ...

Our yoga retreat coming up soon (26-28 March) is focussed on opening and healing the throat chakra. For t...

And it seems just yesterday we were on our 2020 retreat, squashed into a timeslot at the end of the yea...

This is different to the Western view of joy. In our society, joy is passive and reactive and caused by...

And as January 1 dawned for many, New Year’s resolutions were put into action. We have a slower start to...

Metta is one of the Brahma Viharas of yoga which are: loving kindness, joy, compassion and equanimity. M...

And then we got COVID-19. A virus which has rocked the world. Nothing will ever be as it was. This viru...

All of us approach yoga retreats with different aspirations. For some students they just want to rest and...

A big part of Ayurveda is what you eat, how you eat and what foods are particularly good for your body ty...

According to Ayurveda: a Vata dosha (slim limbed, racehorse type) keeps their stress in their lower colon...

We also used the quiz to identify our strengths and obtain guidelines on optimal nutrition choices unique to our...

So, this spring in yoga, starting from next week, we are using our yoga, our pranayama and lifestyle choic...

It’s fun and fascinating yoga and gives us a chance to dig up and practise obscure yoga poses, mantras and...

As we all know, our Melbournians are in their third week of COVID Stage 4 lockdown. And it’s not fun.
When so...

In the world of yoga, we often follow ayurvedic eating guidelines and ayurveda promotes a plant-based d...

isolation to keep us calm, build courage and resilience in the body and now, during the post COVID period...

Most people have moved back into normal routines and work schedules and it’s been so wonderful to welcom...

We’ve lost track of how many weeks, eight or nine perhaps, that we have been doing online yoga. And althoug...

One of the interesting things we talk about in yoga class is how we can change our reality by changing o...