Crying Yoga…

I have a confession to make!  I feel like I may have been really smug in my last two blogs about my daily yoga practice.  The morning routine lately has been really hard, a battle with myself to keep my practice going when I least feel like it and by managing to keep it going, I […]

Why do I practice Ashtanga Yoga, Mysore style?

Recently while having a chat with my cousin about my yoga practice, she literally balked at the thought of doing the same sequence of postures every single day without change.  To her it seemed boring and restrictive, as though all joy and light were sucked out of the practice by practicing in this way.  I […]

Get your ego out of the way, or start saving up now for a new set of knees…

It’s nearly four months now since I started my regular, six-mornings-a-week Ashtanga yoga practice routine and it’s amazing what I’ve noticed and learned in this time about my habits, my behavioural patterns, my body and so on….   On a purely physical level though, something I’ve noticed over the months is the potential wear and […]

Ashtanga yoga calms the monkey-mind… um, sometimes!

I’m not sure about this one because in my practice this morning all I could do was think, think and think some more about all these essays and articles and musings I wanted to write on this yoga practice of mine.  Every so often, I would remember that I was really supposed to be watching […]