personal observations
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Expansive reciprocity as a new way of being in the world.
Sometimes I can’t directly talk to something as it’s in process, not fully formed or what I like to call ‘landing’ in my awareness. So why talk about it until it’s fully formed? Ah good question, because it’s so interesting when something lives as a question or even more so as multiple questions. When something Continue reading
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State changing
State changing. It is possible to change how you’re feeling right now. This is the piece of information I want you to have right now. Your state of mind is your inner state and this is the emotional and intellectual content of your being right now. I encourage you to expand that belief to encompass Continue reading
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Mantra, Mudra and Nirdra
Mantra, Mudra and Nirdra Have you heard yourself lately? Actually listened to what you are telling yourself daily. Self talk, the inner dialogue and how we perceive ourselves is so interesting to observe because it sets up all our relationships and becomes our reality. Once we become aware of how unkind we can be to Continue reading
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Best Practice – Personal Practice Workshops
Tracey Murphy is an Art Therapist and movement facilitator who passionately for over 15 years now, works alongside all ages, genders, and in all manner of organisations, to help facilitate new pathways along life’s journey for others. Yogasarita is the director of Yoga in Life, Auckland, New Zealand and a sincere intuitive yoga Continue reading
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YOGA VERBS
Yoga verbs: An introduction to the principles that support safe Asana practice. Align, Activate, Stack, Yield, Push, Reach, Breath, Lengthen, Broaden, Release, Tone, Support, Lift. These words I hear myself say over and over again. In fact each and every verb can be applied to almost every transition and asana. These relate to fundamental principles Continue reading
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WHAT IS YOGA?
What is Yoga? Yoga is about meeting yourself, on the mat in this very moment of time. Contrary to the majority of western thinking it is not about the ‘glory of the pose’. There is a very real hangover from the decades when yoga become fashionable in western societies. Yoga came through in a very Continue reading
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facebook discussions on yoga
‘Darling, flexible people don’t go to yoga, yoga makes people flexible. If you’re breathing, and concentration on your breath, and finding the ease and joy in everything you do, you are doing yoga 10 times better to that of somebody in a full headstand, who’s more concerned with the fact they are doing the pose Continue reading
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you are not what you think you are
It has become more and more apparent to me that the point of yoga is to transcend the human drama and come completely into the present moment. Easier said than done, but I’m convinced this is the liberation that has been dubbed ‘enlightenment’. We carry our past hurts around as if they justify who we Continue reading
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AssimINTERGRATIONilation – Tadasana
Tadasana, Dandasana and Balasana are the assimilation point in between work and action. This is where the ‘worked’ part of the body finds cohesion once again with the whole. Shavasana is the assimilation of the whole practice. The synthesis of intention and action. The definition of Assimilation is’ to absorb’. It is in the stillness Continue reading
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Hatha Yoga, Body Planes and Integration
Balance lies in the harmonising of opposing forces. Stillness and Movement Action and none Action Inhale and Exhale Left and Right The feminine and The Masculine Flexion and Extention Abduction and Adduction. In a practice it is wise to know which side of you is more open and then let the ‘tighter’ side lead movements. Continue reading
My Joy Body 