A New Starter

I have started the year calmly excited to be taking on new challenges with vision and discipline. 

This of course is what we all want especially in moments of clarity and motivation, but with so many distractions it becomes easy to lose touch with the journey of our true Self, lost in the drama that surrounds us. With yoga we come back each time with our Sadhana(daily practice) to the natural and still state for which each of us was designed. This year I am calmly excited to be sharing yoga with others. Other teachers, other students and in all encounters in professional and personal life. 

With the advent of starting to teach yoga, I have created this new space to inspire and energise myself in the journey of Yoga. While I'll keep my old blog up for now, this new space will be a blank canvas of sorts for the years to come. 


Shanti (peace)
Ananta

Santosha Yoga

Satya and the Creation of Harmony

I've been thinking this week about the Yama of Satya or truthfulness. This topic was introduced by my teacher during Monday's class and I was gifted a good read here which expanded on Satya as a powerful principle that has great harmonising effect on the world around us. It got me to thinking and growing more aware during practice of how we all have a role in creating harmony in the world and that our impact is greater than we often think. 
When we express truth and speak with restraint and for the benefit of other humans, we can exert a powerful effect on others and inspire them to do the same. This benefits us all and as a community we experience growth.

We can underestimate of forget how we influence and change the world beyond the sphere of our physical influence or close relations. Our media and the structures of our society keep us thinking we are here to consume products and produce work, but actually there is more to it than that. Isn't there?



Namaste.

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Why This Blog, Why Now

I started this blog as a way of openly documenting my practice with Yoga. It started as a basic reflection following each practice, however it has grown fairly quickly into a documentary on my Journey with Yoga in practice and in life. 
I have been practicing yoga for 2 1/2 years now and started as a way to manage stress. I quickly realised the further benefits to regular practice, including a connection to my body through movement and asana, confidence, balance, motivation and of course it has brought me alignment with my life's purpose. I hope that by following this blog, people can enjoy the aspects of this journey I chose to share, and be inspired to take up their own spiritual journey.

Sharing Yoga

We had some friends over last night and I would usually not do yoga with others around especially when they are staying in the room I usually use. Thinking ahead this time I did my practice in my Sons room. I thought about the joy of sharing Yoga and as my practice progresses I want to share it more with others. My 3 and 1 1/2 year old already watch and copy some poses when they get the urge to. Increasingly I talk about yoga to others where before I would have left the subject alone. The joy of yoga seems to well up inside and want to be shared and celebrated whenever possible as I grow in awareness. I'd love to know if you find my sharing through this blog interesting, relevant or you may like to post enthusiastically that you are "ambivalent" to its content.