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After practicing yoga for over thirty years down in the big smoke we felt called to move back into nature into an environment ideal to go deeper into the higher limbs of yoga practice. The Vedas suggest that when one comes to the middle of ones life (around 50) to change ones mode of life and spend more time on spiritual practice in nature. This mode of life is called vanaprashtha (forest dweller). This same mode of life is suggested in many yogic texts. We took that quite literally and live now on a mountaintop surrounded by ancient rainforest. Living in nature inspires our practice greatly, which we can then share when we come back into the cities to teach workshops or retreats.
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How to deal with common shoulder injuries
The recent post about rehabilitation of knee injuries saw me receive requests to handle shoulder...
How about spontaneous Kundalini surges or Kundalini accidents?
I am getting a fair amount of enquiries relating to strange, very intense body symptoms, sometimes...
What’s the correct name of that first posture in 3rd series?
I was asked about my thoughts regarding the name of the first posture in the Advanced A series of...
Hatha Yoga or The Physical Dimension of Meditation
Hatha Yoga is the physical dimension of yoga, its two main disciplines being posture and breath...
All yoga one
As the four Vedas were originally one, so all yoga in the beginning constituted one single system,...
How to find the time for asana, pranayama and meditation?
I frequently get asked how modern yogis could find the time for for all the various yogic...
What is Kundalini?
The Purusha Sukta of the Rig Veda states that in the beginning there was the Brahman only. The...
Why is yogic Kundalini Meditation so powerful?
Yogic meditation is a highly scientific method. It derives its power from the fact that it...
A Mandelbrot metaphor of yogic technique
The Mandelbrot-set is a formula named after the late mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Its...
Agings influence on Practice
I received requests from a few students to write about how body and practice changes as one gets...
How to deal with Anxiety during Pranayama
I received some inquiries how to deal with anxiety during pranayama, a subject that is also...
Healing knee injuries
I’m getting a lot of inquiries about knee problems and here are some basic guidelines on knee...
What is prana?
As is the case with many other terms, prana can have several meanings depending on context. For...
The union of Hatha and Raja Yoga
The Hatha Ratnavali states that the lower yogic techniques like asana, pranayama and mudra are...
Is pranayama just Ujjayi or is it more?
Pranayama is defined in Yoga Sutra II.49 as extension of inhalation and exhalation (for example...
How does asana work and why is it important?
The importance that yoga places on deleting bodily, tissue and cell memory and what attitude the...
How many asanas do you need?
Was early yoga and Patanjali only referring to sitting postures like Padmasana or also to a...
Is Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Patanjali Yoga?
I was asked whether I agree that Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (sometimes colloquially shortened to...
The four qualities of a yoga teacher
Many modern yogis and indeed many teachers practise to improve their yoga and to get recognition....
Why yoga without pranayama is not enough
This is a shortened version of a section from the Introduction to my Pranayama book. This...
The limitations of practising only postures
Another thing that I’ve been asked for a lot since the publication of my Intermediate Series book...
Asana and loving the Divine
Postures are arranged on the string of the breath, like prayer beads are strung on a mala or...
Asana the foundation of all yogic techniques
Prior to me taking a three-year research break from teaching the Intensive Level 3 at 8 Limbs we...
The corrugation road of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
Recently I noticed a few long-term students who had a technically very refined practice but...
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