Testing your mettle.
A few weeks ago, I was browsing in a beautiful boutique near my home. This is something I often do when my creative juices have run dry or I have cabin fever. Often, they are the same thing. Anyway, there was this necklace. It lassoed my attention: goldy-colured, lotus shaped. And for some reason, incredibly [...]
Reflections on Samtosha
Contentment. Or, to be all Sanskrit-jargony, Samtosha. You can see how people would battle with this when things are crappy, right? But when things are good, and they are still not content, you might start to question their sanity. I’ve certainly been questioning my own, lately. For frikssake, I’m asking myself, your life is so [...]
Making Space
Years ago, a friend of mine had a series of Alexander Technique lessons. Her posture really improved: I asked her how she’d done it. ‘Well,’ she replied, ‘if you stop doing the WRONG things, you make space for the right ones to happen on their own.’ Devastatingly simple. Also, desperately challenging. I do know what [...]
Freshly minted yoga teacher?
(photo by Kham Tran) I have a group of delightful teachers working with me in my mm…Yoga! business. One reminds me a lot of me, ten years ago. She qualified quite recently and has this infectious enthusiasm: she just feels so lucky to be teaching yoga for a living.She is also still learning what teaching [...]
Accepting. And how I do it as Badly as Surrendering
So here’s the thing: I practice yoga because I NEED to. WIth all the yoga I have done in the last decade or so, I should be an enlightened being with 360- degree vision. But no. I am just human. And, without my yoga practice, a cranky human. Also, a control-freaky kind of human. Which [...]
When control freaks think about letting go…
There are things I am great at: working hard, disciplined daily yoga practice, working hard… And things I completely suck at, most of which involve letting go of control. I comfort myself with the idea that it’s a contextual thing: sometimes it’s appropriate to surrender, and sometimes it isn’t. Which is actually true. Cough cough. [...]
