I find it interesting how life almost immediately started unfolding the moment I set my focus on the two things of appreciation and beauty. The intention was to keep them in the foreground of daily life, especially in relation to ‘doing’. One of the first things that got highlighted was that it is much easier to hold a stance of appreciation and see beauty around us when life is meeting our perceived needs. It all feels good if everything goes according to our plan, right? Bu

I realise that this one word, as all words, is probably landing pre-loaded and thereby I am risking being misunderstood or understood differently from the meaning I want to communicate. Stillness for me translates as a space of calm, of no demands and no expectations, as well as a place from which I feel grounded, settled and content. What does ‘Stillness’ means to you? What images, what feelings conjure up, and are they wanted or unwanted? I’ve been fortunate to have found m

As with most things, perhaps everything, I have come to understand that whatever the distress or the excitement is, it always comes back...

My teacher used to say, if you want to know how far you have come (on the yogic path and your evolution), look at your relationships. We...

Aptly, it seems, the last term’s Thursday classes was designed around relationships, and some partner work, not realising that in the...

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu (लोकः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु) is a beautiful and powerful mantra. This practice uses that mantra and...

Most of us are conditioned to think that come January we magically should have the ability to begin anew, to begin again. It is a new...

As we move closer towards the Christmas period, this idea of contentment might be growing stronger in our consciousness, either because...

I have heard it many times, and I have probably written about it here once or twice before, that contentment and true happiness is what...

“Everything changes but not without a reason” Gertrude Stein (1939) Picasso The only consistent element in our lives is Change Looking at...

Find a nice outdoor space (we are so lucky in Kent as there are plenty) and go through sun salutations...even just one round Sit down on...

I’ve come to realise, equate, ‘doing’ and ‘being’ with ‘action’ and ‘inaction’ in the way that it is spoken in the Gita, but also more...

Spring Equinox and the Magnolia outside is in full bloom. Within days, in a blink of an eye the plum tree has followed suit. Nature in...

I started this post with the intention of writing about self-love and self-care. It wasn’t flowing, interestingly not because there...

I take it as a good omen that this year, and this new month begins with a new week. It feels like a good start. I feel the excitement of...

Beginnings always feel the hardest to me, the moments just before, sometimes feel excrutiating, or somewhow stuck. Even starting this...

One of the instructions or pointings during the meditation practice was to stay in being and awareness and not take “form”, stay...

Time brings us at the point of balance of the Autumn Equinox – one would say the Middle way. I wonder whether these points of energetic...

Our minds and our ability to align with our true self is quite remarkable really. I was thinking that it would be good to review and...

I don’t know about you but I definitely wax and wane. Perhaps, over the years, I have become slightly better at it, or at least in some...