Posts Tagged ‘yoga sutras’
Too Much Love in Your Bones – the keys to happiness
Just before Christmas I was having a bantering argument with a friend and he threw the following insult at me: ‘Do you know what your problem is Keren? You just have too much love in your bones’ Best. Compliment. Ever. Sometimes I sit and wish I was a bit tougher with people, that I could […]
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my sutra, my saviour
tapah svadhyaya Isvarapranidhanani kriyayogah My translation: Commitment and passion. Self awareness and study. Devotion to something bigger than yourself. This is the practice of YOGA. At the end of the teacher training course last year the students gave me a present to say thank you and farewell (or thank god and good riddance!). They presented […]
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Motherhood and mortality
In my last agony aunt column I spoke about one of the Kleshas (the obstacles that prevent us from achieving union with the divine) and this particular klesha translates as fear of death or more accurately, clinging to bodily life. I’m on retreat this weekend and in my blissful spare time I am reading a […]
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Grieving Mama has her arms full
Dear KCY My husbands father passed away suddenly last month from a heart attack. It’s thrown everyone off guard and is a devastating shock to my husband and his sister who watched their mother suffer and pass away from a brain tumour just four years ago. Following his mother’s death we experienced some very trying […]
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The Yoga of Motherhood
I recently read the greatest article in Australian Yoga Life about the yoga of motherhood. It was the article I’d been writing in my head for the past 14 months. I highly recommend dashing out to the shops and buying a copy now. For years when students have complained to me about how they haven’t […]
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