Archive for the ‘Yoga’ Category
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 life force, energy of in Chinese medicine terms, chi. Prana exists in every living thing. Some creatures and things have […]
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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 sense of love. It is the love of a parent for a child for example, unconditional and fierce in its […]
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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 major chakras, energy centres, that run up a central energy channel. Our being is full of these channels that transport […]
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Truth Be Told – theme of the month blog by Hannah Rutland
Truth be told – Theme of the month with Hannah Whatever you are doing right now – stop. Pause. Take a moment to tune in with the sounds that you can hear around you. Perhaps there is the distant noise of moving traffic, or maybe a dishwasher is moving through a cycle in the next […]
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Guru month – yoga as activism by Keren
“What helped you survive?” Steinem asked Davis before an auditorium packed with remarkable women and social justice organizers. “What made feel capable of getting up every day and moving forward was the fact that there were so many other people involved in the struggle,” Davis responded. “This was not my struggle alone.” “I could only […]
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