I was introduced to yoga in my early 20s. I attended my first term of yoga classes with two work colleagues when working in a very stressful supported housing project for vulnerable people. The class was run by an ex-army PT instructor and is far removed from what subsequently became my yoga practice. That first experience, however, made a big impression; I was in awe of the two old (probably in their 70s) women who were far more flexible than I was at that time and could e

The first time we taught yoga and meditation online was through necessity – the covid lockdown had begun and it was the only way people could connect to share practice. We were quite skeptical as to how effective it would be. We were glad to be proved so very wrong. Nick remembers the moment he sat and began a meditation practice with a group of maybe 20 people or so thinking to himself ‘Oh – this is interesting!’ The profound stillness and depth that comes from shared practi

Some of the challenges for a yoga teacher in the modern Western world

Firstly there’s not really a problem with Advaita – it’s us. More correctly it’s our senses, our perception & our concepts that can make Advaita tricky. Advaita means ‘not two’ and Advaita, as a philosophical premise, is the attempt to describe the realization of the deepest level of identity or Being – the true nature of things. Another term for Advaita would be ‘non-dualism’. This is the insight that though it may be entirely convincing to our senses and perception that

The wonder of the chakra system