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Theme of the month – Gratitude
Yesterday I went for coffee with my great Mum friend Sandra after the school run, we let the kids run wild around argal lake and we sipped a coffee outside in the Autumn sunshine. We...
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Theme of the month – September – The path to enlightenment via Patanjali’s yoga sutras
Theme of the month September ~ The path to enlightenment via Patanjali’s yoga sutras Yama-niyama-āsana-prāṇāyāma-pratyāhāra-dhāraṇā-dhyāna-samādhayo‘ṣṭāvaṅgāni. Restraint, Observance, Seat, Breath Control, Sense Withdrawal, Concentration, Mediation and Ecstasy are the eight limbs of Yoga. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras...
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Theme of the month – balance
Many years ago when I worked for a mining company in Australia I used to find myself flown from Brisbane to Perth fairly regularly. One one trip, I was exploring the beaches of Freemantle and...
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Theme of the month – July – YOGA
Welcome to the theme of the month blog post for July and the theme for this month is…YOGA Say what? The theme of the month is yoga? isn’t it always yoga? Yoga means many different...
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Theme of the month June – JAI MA!
Jai Ma! A month of Ma coming up at FYS. Join us at FYS this coming month to celebrate the divine mother in all her forms, and in her biggest, most powerful form, that of...
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May theme of the month – Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
1.1 ATHA YOGANUSASANAM This is the first yoga sutra of Patanjali’s sacred text, a must read for all yoga students who want to delve into the practice beyond the physical shapes that we make, but...
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April Theme of the month – yoga as activism
The state of the world has been pressing on me more than usual this past month. In fact, I would go as far to say it’s causing me anxiety even when i’m sleeping and dreaming...
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Control your breath, control your life – March theme of the month
The theme of the month in March at the studio is Pranayama, we broadly all understand this as breath work or breathing practices but spare me a moment to dissect this word PranaYama. Prana is...
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Theme of the month – Prema – Divine Love
The theme of the month here at FYS this month is a beautiful sanskrit word – PREMA. Prema is a sanskrit word for love, unlike Kama (selfish love) Prema is unconditional, divine and a higher...
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Theme of the month – throat chakra
Leading on from our month of sanskrit in December where we explored how important and magical words with meaning are, we head into a month exploring the throat chakra. In yogic philosophy there are seven...
