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Vande Gurunam Caranaravinde

I had an interesting conversation the other day with a dedicated yoga practitioner and teacher who...
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Practice, Practice, Practice….What Practice?

Thank you for the intelligent questions in relation to my Blog post “Time to Give up Asana, Old...
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A Practical View of Yama – Pt 1 Ahimsa

The first limb of Ashtanga Yoga is Yama. This consists of 5 parts; ahimsa; satya; asteya;...
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Post Pandemic Ashtanga — Sitting in Silence

It is starting to feel as if we are finally coming out the other side of the Covid pandemic and...
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Time to Give up on Asana, Old Man.

For a long time now I have never really asked myself why I do my Ashtanga Vinyasa practice 5 or 6...
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Pain and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

It seems lately that there has been some debate about the perils or otherwise of practicing Yoga....
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My Knees Hurt – Pain in Ashtanga Yoga

I have blogged about this subject before, but this is the time of the year when I seem to get a...
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Pandemics and Politics 2020

An Aotearoa/NZ Ashtanga Perspective: Now that we have finally got to 2021, I thought I'd do a...
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First, Master Asana

My Guru, Sri K Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India said to me on numerous occasions “First, master asana, then take Pranayama. When you have mastered Pranayama, then take meditation”.

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Want to Start Ashtanga Yoga? – A Word of Warning

In the more than 20 years that I have been practising Ashtanga Yoga its popularity around the...
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