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January [give us the time to sit still]
January; new start, better habits, more of this less of that…. while all we really want to do is hibernating and waiting for brighter days (at least up here in the North). The gym is busy, the yoga studio sees new faces, people try not to drink alcohol and perhaps to ditch meat on a…
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To react or respond
Last week I got angry, not angry with the atrocities taking place in the world (that is a different kind of anger) but a full-blown Ego lead anger; I was being treated unfairly and unjust and I was not having it! But as an eager student of Yoga and the Vedanta, still in the midst…
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Smell the roses (or…)
Just the other week, under a starlit sky in Provence, with the mild night breeze floating amongst the olive trees like a seductive whisper, one could for a moment think that the world is a beautiful place. This world, us humans playing out our experienced existence under the watchful eye of Mother Earth. But I…
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I’ll bring you cake…
If I had promised you a cake and I presented you, on a plate, a block of (vegan) butter, would you accept this as cake? Would you not say, ‘this is not cake, this is butter’? To which I would reply ‘there is butter in cake, and I like the butter the most, so I…
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Creating shapes on the mat
If you google (or use alternative search engine…) ‘what does Yoga mean’, you will most likely not find “doing acrobatics on a mat” or “putting your body into the shape of a pretzel”. Most practitioners of yoga-asana do have some knowledge about what yoga is and where it comes from; and that it [really]…
Tiril Yoga 