Yoga P-plates

Yes! I've passed my teacher training assessments and now have my ‘P-plates’ to teach yoga.

A Long Night

Some might call it dedication. Others might call it insanity. I'm currently struggling on 4½ hours sleep after doing another all-nighter, going to bed at 6:00am just as Hubby's alarm was sounding for him to get up.

Your Religion Is Not Important - A Conversation with the Dalai Lama

My current assignment is getting me down. Negative emotions and thoughts are pulling me deeper into a whirlpool of tamas, making it hard for me to regain my balance.

The No Shampoo Challenge

It started with a radio interview back in 2007. Richard Glover was interviewing Matthew Parris, a London Times columnist, who disclosed that he had not washed his hair with shampoo for 15 years. The reason? Shampoos strip the natural oils from your hair. Your body compensates by producing more oil, your hair gets greasier and you need to wash your hair more often. By not washing your hair with shampoo, your hair initially becomes greasy and oily but after about six weeks it will look and feel better because the natural balance is restored. Six weeks!? For me, it's been three years!

Delighting in Dru

“You put your right foot in,
You put your right foot out,
You put your right foot in and you shake it all about.
You do the hokey pokey ...”

This was my introduction to Dru Yoga.

Deadline

After a month of increasingly long work days that spilt over to the weekends, I feel like I'm emerging from a mental fog, a period of robotic routine—get up, go to work, work, go home, work, go to sleep, repeat. Working such crazy hours upset my routine and now that the assignment is complete, I'm lost, not sure what to do, stumbling around trying to re-establish my life. Would this transition have been easier if I had been more aware of my actions and thoughts, if I had been practising karma yoga?