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Yoga is You

Yoga is empowerment; self healing, the art of self love and self-soothing. It is deep diving into your rich inner stillness and getting masterfully curious about your mind, body, heart and soul. Yoga shows you all the ways you run from, belittle, beat and berate yourself into silence, pain and smallness. It is becoming the Author and Artist of You.  Of coming to re-know yourself, travelling back to a time before they pronounced who it is that you are and reclaiming yourself as Yours. It is wiping away the grime. Yoga is re-wilding, into the savage beauty of your body and soul. It is re-alignment, of the bones and heart.  Yoga is cultivation; of kindness, of compassion, of patience, of strength, of peace and of hope. Of Hope, the realisation that you always have a choice, multiple choices, and it is developing the strength and will to make them.  It is building a bridge between the Body-Mind. It is coming to know the Mind as brilliant servant, not as tyrannic...

Three Steps Closer to the Real You

We all have one. You’ve experienced it when you’re feeling doubtful, fearful, unsure, angry or vengeful.  If you’ve experienced addiction, procrastination, worry, low self esteem. It’s tunnel vision, limited thinking, black and white, right and wrong. It echoes things from your past, from your childhood when you absorbed messages from your environment, unfiltered, like a tiny sponge – ‘you couldn’t be/do/achieve/have that…you’ll never make it…what makes you think you’re so special?’ There’s a force within us which seeks to douse our light. Ladies and Gentlemen I give you...The Ego* Cue rapturous applause and standing ovation.  I often wonder how we’ve evolved, as advanced as we are, with the tiniest, most screwed up version of ourselves in our heads masquerading as the real deal. So powerful it convinces us it is who we are. And here’s the thing, it only wants to keep us safe and protected. Nature has its ways and in the interests of self preservation, it’s a pr...