Have you heard of the Eisenhower Matrix? It’s a simple tool for figuring out how to prioritise different tasks. Former U.S. President...

Over the years of teaching, I’ve heard countless reasons why people don’t start yoga—even when they know it could do them a world of...

Why I Love Ashtanga Yoga My relationship with Ashtanga yoga goes back over 30 years, and I can honestly say it’s the longest relationship...

How’s Your New Year’s Resolution Going? I hope you’re still keeping up with it and feeling better for it! As for mine, it’s still going...

Everyone has a self-image. For me, growing up as an unhealthy child who spent school years as an non-sporty, bookish kid meant I didn’t...

For over 25 years, I’ve had the same New Year’s resolution year after year: to learn to do a free handstand. Around the time I learned...

In April 2023, I picked up a knee injury. There wasn’t any specific incident that caused it, but I believe it developed over a couple of...

Is headstand part of your practice? Have you tried it? Or do you think you will never achieve this? In his book Light on Yoga, B.K.S....

Do you know what an affirmation is? It's any statement you make. Too often, our minds are filled with negative affirmations. Do you wake...

I had a truly wonderful surprise the other day. I was on the train back from a day trip to London, casually browsing through my phone...

5 years ago I wrote this post in my blog about my late mother who died in 2016. In this I quoted a discourse from Sathya Sai Baba. ‘The...

I used to watch many Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s videos, and do one of his meditations, in which you repeat to yourself, ‘I am not my...

Needless to say, I think yoga is one of the most beneficial things one can do to his/her mental and physical wellbeing. But actually...

The other day my daughter was working in a Covid Vaccine clinic and she messaged me at break saying how tiring it was. So I messaged back...

Recently I watched a film where the main character suffered schizophrenia. (I’m not naming the title of the film because it would be a...

The other day I took part in an event where many of my yoga students also participated. I was talking to a person who had come to my yoga...

In the mid-1990’s when I used to go to many many yoga classes and retreats, I had never attended even a single class with background...

Have you ever fallen asleep in savasana, corps pose? I have. Most of us have. Although you are not meant to, I don’t think it’s a bad...

As a part of my Yoga Philosophy course at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, I wrote an essay on authenticity of contemporary yoga. My...

(Thought from the recent meditation retreat) On the first day of the retreat, my mind was surprisingly cooporative. I managed to watch my...