In the first part of this two part series on Negative Habits & Yoga we looked at the work of Yoga Master BKS Iyengar and how he understands the structure of the mind to perpetuate a negative habit.  Either through an external challenge (like a disappointment) that causes a primary ripple on the surface of [...]

B.K.S. Iyengar has been called ‘The Michelangelo of yoga’ by the BBC. Today he’s in his 90′s, and has been practicing, teaching, and developing his unique style of Yoga for over 70 years. Iyengar was one of the very first yogis from India to bring Yoga technology to Europe and America about a half century [...]

What is recovery all about anyway?  What does it mean to recover?  What was lost in the first place that needs recovering?  Webster’s online dictionary defines the word recover as to regain, as in, ‘to bring back to a normal position or condition’.   This implies a movement back to a place of origin.  What would this place [...]

Since the 1970′s, the field of Yoga therapy has been slowly and steadily emerging in the healthcare industry as a viable treatment for an impressive range of medical conditions.  It’s been used in the treatment of osteoperosis, multiple sclerosis, cardiac arrest, chronic pain, schizophrenia, addiction, just to name a very few.  Not only that, but more and more Yoga’s been actively researched with [...]

At the heart of healing is an experience. It is the experience of being willing and able to be in the moment with your feelings. No matter how awful or repulsive or spectacular they may be, to allow yourself to stay there and feel what is there to be felt. Of course you know as [...]

Did you know that truth is always the same?   That it is what it is . . .  period . . .  and that it remains the same throughout time?  The only thing that really matters is that you allow yourself to bump hip to the truth within your own being, and let it lead you into [...]

Some yogis call it ‘bare attention’, the practice of being present to experience. Some Buddhists call it ‘mindfulness’, paying attention to the moment on purpose, and without judgement.  Some trauma experts refer to it as the path of awareness, that brings the survivor to the painful truth of their experience. And then there are those in the [...]

Yogi Awtar writes clearly about how the mind plays the role of director in stage production called our lives.  It’s worth considering these ideas if you’re interested in living your life with intention and purpose.  ‘Our minds make no judgment about the content of what we think, what we feel, or what we say.  Our mind is [...]

Here is an excerpt from the wonderful book titled ‘Practical Yoga Psychology’ by Dr. Rishi Vivekananda, who articulates the role of Yoga in the development of the personality, and the common ground that both yoga and depth psychology share.  That is to say “Depth psychology has shown that there is a form of psychic determinism which controls all [...]

I’ve come to the conclusion that I work with a wolf in sheeps clothing.  Someone who presents themself as a helpless victim and then acts in a predatory fashion to get what they want.  Unfortunately what they have wanted is my good work.  But it has been the emotional manipulations, the not speaking to me for a [...]