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Sunrise Serenity: The Benefits of Starting Your Day with Yoga with Posture Suggestions
I'm not a morning person, so for a long time, I did my yoga in the evening. Evenings were great because my body felt more flexible, and I...
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Atsuko
Dec 15, 20232 min read
Winter Solstice: Embracing the Light Within
Winter Solstice this year in the UK falls on the 21st of December 2023. While the days start getting longer from this point onwards, we...
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Atsuko
Nov 10, 20233 min read
Reunion with a long lost yoga buddy!
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...
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Atsuko
Feb 3, 20233 min read
So Am I the Divine Shakti?
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...
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Atsuko
Apr 21, 20213 min read
You Are Not Your Mind
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...
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Atsuko
Apr 4, 20212 min read
You Can Heal Your Life
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...
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Atsuko
Feb 28, 20213 min read
Yoga Beyond the Mat
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...
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Atsuko
Feb 17, 20212 min read
The Practice of Being Now
My son was home from university during the Christmas holiday period. On the morning of the New Year ’s Eve, for some reason the...
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Atsuko
Jan 31, 20212 min read
Living with my Ghost
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...
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Atsuko
Nov 20, 20202 min read
Zen and Tea Ceremony
Do you know what Zen is? How can we live Zen in our life and in our yoga practice?
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Atsuko
Jul 25, 20202 min read
Benefits of Online Yoga for me as a student
Since I left London in 1997 I have been practising yoga by myself or sometimes practised together with other Ashtanga Yoga enthusiasts....
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Atsuko
Apr 28, 20202 min read
Classical Yoga Texts
Today is the first rainy day since the lockdown started 37 days ago, and it looks like it will stay wet for the week. Yey! The garden is...
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Atsuko
Apr 22, 20202 min read
Karma Yoga
This coming Saturday the 25th of April was going to be my first Yoga Philosophy workshop. As it’s not going to happen, and I seem to have...
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Atsuko
Apr 15, 20203 min read
Online Yoga
I didn’t take it very well when the lockdown was coming our way. Like many people who are self-employed, I get zero penny if I don’t go...
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Atsuko
Mar 8, 20202 min read
Yoga is Boring
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...
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Atsuko
Feb 15, 20202 min read
Yoga Playlist
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...
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Atsuko
Feb 1, 20202 min read
'Stressful Meditation'
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...
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Atsuko
Jan 12, 20202 min read
INDIA!!
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to update this blog more regularly. Another one is to go to India. I have been talking about going...
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Atsuko
Apr 10, 20192 min read
Yoga Trend??
As a part of my Yoga Philosophy course at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, I wrote an essay on authenticity of contemporary yoga. My...
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Atsuko
Aug 19, 20182 min read
Yoga Philosophy Course
I started an online Yoga philosophy course by Oxford Centre of Hindu Studies in July. This is a short course with 7 weeks of weekly...
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