Musings Articles
Yoga – The Gathering
The human soul longs for the ‘real’ sensuous experience that we can only have in the gathering of live, shared interaction. In our contemporary culture, we are repeatedly encouraged to live ‘boxed’...
General Election – May 2015
In May 2015, in the UK where I am a citizen, there was a ‘general election’, when the populace may vote for the national government. In the weeks leading up to the vote, the subject of the pending...
And So This is Christmas 2014
Christmas, mid-winter festival, just after Solstice: celebration of things to come; celebration of the coming light; celebration of how the greatest things grow in and from the dark. Three wise men...
Dark Awakening
The darkest time of night is before dawn. When we are waking up. When we are waking up, it may well feel like we are getting lost more deeply in the dark, in greater uncertainty and confusion, in a...
Necessary Heartbreak
Chances are, most of us would not say that we want our hearts to be broken. Chances are that most of us would say we would like to feel happy in our hearts. If we ‘would like to feel’ happy, it...
Breaking Through The Veils
As we practice yoga and explore what it means to be steadily easy, steadily happy, truly balanced; it’s usually not so long before we begin to realise that those things which trap us are often of...