sadhanaali dream and listen to what is within Dear Yogis and Pilates Friends Hope you are all well, I know that summer has finished and autumn is upon us but we know that all too soon the season of freshness and new found energy will return. But for many of us that light seems very far … Read more
What is Brahman, What is Allah? Sunset @ Cox Bazaar Bangladesh ©SadhanaYoga I cannot adequately explain what Allah is; In Bradaranyaka Upanishad, when Yajnavalkya was questioned by his students to describe God, he could only say, “It is not this and it is not that” (neti, neti, neti). Allah is the creator, without which we … Read more
Recently I suffered an injury, fracturing my ankle fortunately not serious enough to stop me teaching and practising but serious enough to force me to slow the pace down. Life became a little crazy for me this year swaying me off my path, and I resisted that change, in fact ignorance of my here and … Read more
“Accept what we have, have the courage to acknowledge what we have, have the strength to appreciate what we have, have the will to be content; all this is easy to write but hard to practice when the “false” ego is unheard. The struggle between the mind and the Self is identifying whether we listen … Read more
I took the above photo when visiting the Botanical Gardens in Singapore, a beautiful sculpture the “Passing of Knowledge” sculpture by Victor Tan Wee Tar. The sculpture is his interpretation about the relationships we have passing and receiving knowledge from teacher to student, in this instance passing water from parent to child. I am so … Read more
I have just returned from teaching my yoga, pilates and meditation retreat. It was a wonderful group of friends from 26 years old to a few decades more and it gave me the chance to re confirm that just because the age body gets older this by no means means that the physical body has … Read more
Dear Yogis and Pilates Friends Tonight Maha Shivaratri an auspicious evening for Hindus celebrate whereby any prayers that are sent will be heard. It is a time of sending out hope, sending out love and allowing our dreams to be heard in the hope that they will be realised. But to send out a prayer, … Read more
Hatha Yog – great way to start but there is so much more and many of us don’t know how So rather than asking “What would Jesus do?” (bear with me) I asked “What would Bruce Lee do?”…read on To cut a very long story short , during a climbing trip in Canada I had a fall … Read more
