Mike’s Blog

I have written before about the “slowly, slowly, Ashtanga Yoga” method but want to emphasise it again in the light of a couple of recent examples I have had. We all know that the method is that you can comfortably do an asana in the Ashtanga sequence before you move...

An Aotearoa/NZ Ashtanga Perspective: Now that we have finally got to 2021, I thought I'd do a review of 2020 given that it was such a momentous year. It started for us with the Australian bush fires and the smoke haze that made it all the way across the Tasman sea and...

Random Thoughts on Practicing and Teaching through a Global Pandemic: Time is a fluid thing. It wasn't that long ago, back in February, when I, like many people was saying, “It's just a bad strain of the flu. Nothing to worry about”. The next thing you know we are a...