Archive for Yoga Philosophy

When your practice doesn’t feel good There have been times when movement just hasn’t felt good for me. Not just in my yoga practice, but in running, skateboarding, surfing and the other things that would...

It’s been a long time since I sat down to write a blog post but I feel this one has been mulling around in my brain for quite a while. In my 20 years of...

Yoga Teacher Training at Falmouth Yoga School “Practice of asanas without the backing of yama and niyama is mere acrobatics”. Yogasanas, Hints and Cautions for the Practice of Asanas, Light on Yoga, B.K.S Iyengar So,...

In our next few blog posts we have invited some of our previous teacher trainees to honestly talk about their experience of teacher training…first up a big thank you to Jen Hawke for sharing her...

Prema is pure, unselfish, divine love. Love without conditions, love for the sake of love. It is the love we have for God, the universe, the divine. Prema is also the love I have for...

“The meaning of Karma is in the intention. The intention behind action is what matters. Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about...

I do this thing…when I’m busy and people ask me to catch up or organise something, I find myself apologising and saying ‘I think things will be calmer next week’. Do you do this? This...

NOW is the time for yoga… In thinking about a theme for this month I have kept returning again and again to the very first of Patanjali’s yoga sutras writer around 2000 years ago (or...

We often think of karma as an eye for an eye type of thing – ie you do something bad and something bad will happen to you. I think the fact that the likes of...

Yoga means union. Literally, the word yoga translates as ‘to yolk’. Often this is translated as a union between body, mind and breath or a union between us and God or a union between us...