Vegetarian food is the food of choice for yogis and thus for retreats and a dish, which one of the participants kept telling us about on our retreat in March is scrambled tofu. I’m not normally a fan of tofu because from past experience I’ve found that it tastes bland and isn’t very appetising. The…
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How to Keep Your Knee Safe in Standing Bent-Leg Postures
[caption id="attachment_3415" align="alignright" width="296"] Reverse Warrior posture[/caption] Why am I constantly telling you to align your knees in standing bent-leg poses? Because bent-leg standing poses, if done with improper alignment can place stress on your knee joint and cause long-term damage. The knee joint is a delicate joint. It is a shallow joint held together…
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Focus – The Attractor Factor
Some people love it, others hate it and yet others have tried it and say that it’s hard to do. But whether you like it or not, meditation is about learning to experience life moment to moment rather than the mind lingering in the past focusing on memories or travelling into the imagined future as…
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Power of Connection
This man walks his dog in the park daily. My walking companion, Maxine, and I have been having brief chats with him for over a year. We've been connecting through our walking activities. In all this time, we didn't know his name or he didn't know our name. One day, a couple of weeks ago.…
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