In a drop-in class when one is adjusting a student, is it still possible to be aware of the many? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
* This will depend on class size, the posture in hand and your own levels of understanding of a pose. For instance it is always possible to be aware of the […]
In this session, we aim provide a class suitable for all wanting to move into their experience with the awakening of the year.
Sukasana
Balasana
Adho mukha svanasana
Uttanasana wall stretch
* NOTE:please note that the focus of the breath is the same, but the breath itself is likely to change, deepen, lengthen etc with each […]
Sit in Sukasana, sitting on one foam block, making sure to place yourself correctly and drawing the buttocks out and back.
Resume breath awareness with a passive brain.
Inhale through both nostrils deeply but still relaxed.
Exhale making a humming sound like that of a buzzing insect.
DURATION: Repeat this 10 -20 times before changing the cross […]
This pose opens the chest, allowing breath to deepen, while allowing the yogi to centre and align the spine.
Roll a blanket into a sausage shape.
Lie down on top of the lift so that it runs along the bottom edge of the shoulder blades. To check that it is positioned correctly, check that.
The chest is lifted […]
Upavistha Konasana: wide-angle seated forward bend
Samakonasana: same-angle pose/lateral split
This is a hybrid pose that may lean towards one or the other of these classic yoga poses (we are leaving out the forward bend that is normally associated with Upavistha Konasana).
Sitting on the floor, open your legs wide apart: you should go as wide a you […]
Take a trip to paradise. Experience yoga on a floating retreat centre in incredible surroundings, Khlong Long, Khao Sok National Park, Surat Thani Region, Southern Thailand. November 8 2006 for 10 days, with Jim Tarran.
* This retreat is on a remote, beautiful lake in a national park with floating bamboo bungalows […]
This is the time of year where darkness no longer dominates light and the balance, grain by grain, is being redressed and even tipped over to favour the light. It is essentially an optimistic time with all the promise of the forthcoming months ahead.
More songs are sung about the month of April than any […]
From April 24, Donna Shilling will be starting a new drop-in class, suitable for all levels of practice, Monday evenings, 6.30-8pm (except bank holidays), at The Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton.
See more drop-in classes…
Yoga can prepare the pregnant woman, mentally and physically, for the changes in her body and her life, but it can also be a route to deeper introspection and self discovery.
Being pregnant for the first time was when I really found my yoga. I’d already been practising for several years and feeling the benefits physically, […]
by D.H.Lawrence
Give and it shall be given to you.
But giving life is not so easy.
It doesn’t mean handing it out to some mean fool,
or letting the living dead eat you up.
It means kindling the life quality where it was not,
even if it is only in the whiteness of a washed pocket handkerchief.
One day of perceiving the Dhamma (the absolute truth) is better than a century without such perception.
A brief life of Wisdom is better than a long life of stupidity.
One useful sentence is better than a thousand useless words.
Buddha did not limp for duty or crawl for charity.
From my views on religion
Does a dog have Buddha nature
water is water.
Soup won’t burn –
Spiders can’t get outa sinks – […]
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