What does it mean to meet your edge? How do you know when you have met your edge? When you finally meet your edge, what do you do? I will take you on a small detour and return to these questions, with answers that have surfaced recently during my mindful flow yoga and meditation practice […]
I forgot to wear my contacts to class. What does that mean? It means that I can either rock my giant Woody Allen-esque glasses and enjoy them slipping off my face every time I’m in downward facing dog or I accept that its blind yoga for today. I’ve said this before in a past blog […]
Breathe. Tatjana says. I… C…C..Can’t I squeeze out. “Deep breaths in and out” she repeats. Seriously, I am suffocating over here. I’m in a shoulder stand and my boobs are cutting off my airways as they flatten my larynx. I’m wheezing my way through this shoulder stand. A few days later I’m doing yoga with […]
Like any quest I am in search of something. At times the thing I seek is clear, but most times it is nebulous. The thing I search for ‘the present moment’ is an elusive creature. I see it hiding in shadows, but most times I feel like I am navigating a foreign space in the […]
I’m staring at my laptop and there’s nothing. I can’t write a single word. I could put it down to writers block but that’s just not true. The whole week I have been songwriting, writing a short story for my writers group, hell I’m writing press summaries at work all day. There is certainly no […]
I sometimes forget when I head to yoga practice on Thursdays after work that I am not just rushing to do my asanas but to understand my mind a bit more. I sometimes struggle with breath-focused seated meditation, so it was a welcome change when Tatjana asked all of us to throw our yoga mats […]
I love being upside down. I love love love it. Ask anyone who knows me well enough, I love doing things backwards and inverted – why? I have no clue, I just think its fun – perhaps I was a bat in previous life as I like Ask anyone who knows me well enough, I […]
Thursday came and with it my very first official Dynamic Yoga class with Tatjana. I was strangely nervous, wondering if I was going to suck or not. Intellectually I know yoga practice is not about being good or bad and more a case of being aware of ‘where you are at’, as ‘where you are […]
One of the most challenging things, I imagine I am not alone in this, is being mindful and present. Being in the now has been my Everest of sorts for as long as I can remember. My mind is like a version of mental ping-pong – ping past-pong future, ping past-pong future, ping past-pong future. […]
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