Practical Philosophy Articles
A Few Words About Ganesa Saranam
In the Bhagavad Gītā, one of the most treasured texts of the yoga tradition, yoga is described as ‘samatva’ – ‘evenness’, or the integration of all the powers of our awareness; and as ‘karmasu...
Yama-niyama: Beyond Rules to Robust Harmonisation
One way that yoga could be described is as coming into sustainable, integrated balance, through all parts of ourselves and in relation to the world around us. A striking feature of ‘conventional,...
The Orchestra: Practice, Harmony and Symphony
A youth orchestra is giving a performance. The members are ten years old and have been playing their instruments just a year. So who comes to the concert? For the most part it’s parents,...
The ‘Gift’ of Conflict
When I first came across the Bhagavad Gītā, I was puzzled. I had heard that it was one of the greatest spiritual texts out there, and I’d come to understand that yoga was all about coming back to...
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...
Y-O-G-A L-O-V-E P-R-A-G
Love is one of those words that can make people uncomfortable. It means so many different things to so many different people. And yet even though the word may be worn out, spread in its use over far...
Full Moon Reflection
This was first hand written coming out of shavasana one warm February morning in Mysore. It was the day after a full moon puja and satsang where I first really spoke about the power of satsang, a...