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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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Online Yoga Sutra Level 1a course starts 10 June 2020
This Online Yoga Sutra course consists of 15 lessons with each lesson approximately 60 minutes...
Podcast with Monica – Sweet Fruits of Lifelong Sādhanā
Monica on Escaping Samsara. She covers the following themes: Monica’s first encounters with...
Online Meditation Level 1 course starts 17 May 2020
This is our foundational meditation course, consisting of 14 lessons with each lesson...
Spanish Edition of PRANAYAMA available now
Spanish Edition of my Pranayama book available now! How cool is that? Thank you, Esteban Cabezas...
Laghunyāsaḥ Mantra
This is a Vedic chant from the Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa. It is chanted to assist those suffering from...
Online Pranayama Level 1 available now
A good outcome of being unable to travel is that we have finally found the time to create online...
Gregor interviewed in the Japanese Yogini Magazine
In what way is Ashtanga Yoga unique? Because Ashtanga works with set sequences you are forced to...
Functional Forward Bends
Functional is the buzz word in the exercise, movement and physical rehabilitation scenes....
Confessions of an Ashtanga Yogini
I thought this blog would be a complimentary follow-up to Gregor’s last blog post where he...
The Advantages of Ashtanga over Vinyasa
In this article I am referring as Ashtanga Yoga to the sequential yoga handed down via T...
BACK PAIN – IS IT YOUR DISC?
As a carry-on from my last blog ‘Back Pain – Is it coming from my SI joint?’ let’s look at back...
BACK PAIN – IS IT COMING FROM MY SACROILIAC JOINTS?
Frequently I receive emails from yogis asking for help with their back pain. Without a physical...
Response to John Scott’s View of Pattabhi Jois’s Sexual Abuse By Karen Rain and Gregor Maehle
This is our (Karen Rain and Gregor Maehle's) commentary to John Scott’s reply to being asked about...
Gregor Maehle in YOGA Magazine
Here an article from me that was published in the August issue of YOGA Magazine...
The Relationship between Samadhi and Bhakti
Here is a summary of my keynote lecture at this years British Wheel of Yoga Congress in Coventry/...
Interview with Gregor in Mexico Part 1
Part of an interview with me conducted by Diego Pena in Mexico last December Among other things...
Taking a Seat for Justice: A Pledge for Ashtanga Allies
The narrative around Pattabhi Jois's sexual violence has been controlled by the enablers,...
Taking A Seat For Justice from Karen Rain
I'm re-posting her an important response from Karen Rain to Sharath Jois acknowledgement of KPJ's...
Sharath: Latest Response – an analysis
Latest response from Sharath on his Instagram account where he did face anger and criticism...
An Apology of Sorts from Sharath Jois
On the 10th July Sharath Jois posted the following text on his Instagram account...
Apology to the Victims of Pattabhi Jois Sexual Assault
Here a letter from Guy Donahaye (erstwhile's editor of Guruji - A Portait Through the Eyes of his...
Did KP Jois Invent Ashtanga Yoga?
Recently I have been alerted to the first high-profile case of a certified Ashtanga teacher and...
How to Respond to Sexual Abuse Within a Yoga or Spiritual Community
New article from Karen Rain and Jubilee Cooke in Yoga International on how to respond to sexual...
Were You Born to Put Your Leg Behind Your Head?
Maybe. And maybe not. It depends on a lot of different things: the shape of your hip joint, the...
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