Archive for Yoga
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Becoming a yoga teacher blog 2 – by Jakki Magowan
Yoga Teacher Training at Falmouth Yoga School “Practice of asanas without the backing of yama and niyama is mere acrobatics”. Yogasanas, Hints and Cautions for the Practice of Asanas, Light on Yoga, B.K.S Iyengar So,...
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Becoming a yoga teacher – blog by Jeni
In our next few blog posts we have invited some of our previous teacher trainees to honestly talk about their experience of teacher training…first up a big thank you to Jen Hawke for sharing her...
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Theme of the Month- Prema
Prema is pure, unselfish, divine love. Love without conditions, love for the sake of love. It is the love we have for God, the universe, the divine. Prema is also the love I have for...
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Theme of the month – Karma Yoga- Just Be a Good Human.
“The meaning of Karma is in the intention. The intention behind action is what matters. Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about...
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Theme of the Month- March- Pranayama- Where the Magic Happens
I’m not going to lie, in my pre-yoga teacher training days I had a bit of a love-hate relationship with pranayama. Don’t get me wrong, pranayama now has my heart, no ‘love-hate relationship’ anymore…it’s all...
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June Blog post – the constant chaos
I do this thing…when I’m busy and people ask me to catch up or organise something, I find myself apologising and saying ‘I think things will be calmer next week’. Do you do this? This...
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Theme of the month – January 2021 – The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
NOW is the time for yoga… In thinking about a theme for this month I have kept returning again and again to the very first of Patanjali’s yoga sutras writer around 2000 years ago (or...
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Theme of the month – Karma Yoga – November 2020
We often think of karma as an eye for an eye type of thing – ie you do something bad and something bad will happen to you. I think the fact that the likes of...
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Theme of the month – My yoga is better than your yoga
Yoga means union. Literally, the word yoga translates as ‘to yolk’. Often this is translated as a union between body, mind and breath or a union between us and God or a union between us...
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Shelter in place – theme of the month blog
The theme of the month this month at the virtual studio is…YOU DO YOU In other words, whatever feels right as you navigate this new world we all find ourselves in. Today I was speaking...