Nico Luce joined us at the Yoga Hub Dublin for a weekend of Workshops. What a weekend! So informative, so clear, so accessible. It was a joy to host and everyone who attended where already asking when he is coming back. There was so much we could have talked about but we were pressed for time as we had to get him to the airport. Questions asked in this interview include What is Yoga to You? Where to start as…
I have been watching Michael Stone’s videos, listening to his podcasts and reading his books for about 2 years now. Very very much looking forward to his next visit (tbc). Thanks so much to Gavin Hoffman for all his editting work on the videos.
Michael Stone joins us this weekend for ‘The Deeper Dimensions of Yoga’ Workshop. He will give a talk at the Milltown Institute in Ranelagh this evening Friday 17th October from 7pm open to everyone. €15 online/€25 on the door.
‘You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.’ Friedrich Nietzche Another kind submission by Lisa Quish.
Not long ago I was in a yoga class where the teacher asked my classmates and I what we preferred to work on, upper body/arms or hips. As the Yoga Hub is an intimate studio and tends to have a good gender balance in class, it was very clear who chose arms (men) and who chose hips (women). Not only were we playing to gender stereotypes of man strong & woman emotional – it is said that we humans hold…
Eureka moments come when you least expect them. I was having a hopeless moment in Ardha Chandrasana (Half-Moon Pose). In these hopeless moments I am usually thinking any and/or all of the following: “Am I doing this right? I am definitely not doing this right.” “Why doesn’t the teacher correct me or tell me I am doing it right?” “I’m hopeless and they could spend the whole class correcting me and I still won’t get it right.” “Why the f*** am…
Wabi-sabi, is that the green paste that lurks in my sushi box It is not Japanese horseradish but a Japanese art form that is compatible with the two great philosophies of Taoism & Zen Buddhism and it sits beautifully with how I see Yoga. The word wabi used to mean poverty but post 14th century it became connected not with the absence of material possession but non dependence on it; not unlike the yoga principles of detachment and equanimity. If…
I love these infographics. Yoga is Preventative Medicine. Anything that involves us actively taking time out for ourselves is preventative medicine. We know what is bad for us and we know what is good whether we’re listening or not. I know that it is sometimes hard to stop, to reflect because some of the things that are underlying we don’t want to come up. That is why they are underlying. Could these underlying feelings (samskaras) be described as…
