Whole Life Yoga Articles
Haṭha Yoga Tantra
Haṭha yoga is a tantra Tantra and Yoga are classic examples of Sanskṛt words that encode vast oceans of meaning. Tantra and Yoga are huge, vast topics. I find it somewhat tragic how narrow and...
Yoga, Authenticity and Authority
One of the ways that an advanced state of yoga is described is as kaivalya - to stand alone: to be in a state of 'all-one-ness'. Not lonely, but whole and integrated. The more we can establish...
Econo-Bee
On how ecology - the understanding of the ecos: the environment, the resources - is the foundation for economy - good management of the ecos. On learning from other species, especially bees, and...
Into the Grey
For some time now I have been feeling to write an article about what I see as the need to go beyond divisive black and white thinking and step ‘into the grey’, to honestly, courageously wrestle with...
The Yoga Method – Some Notes to Self – September 2019
Cutivate the medi-state as best you can. Whenever you come away from the centre, patiently, kindly, invite yourself back to the centre. Pay close, honest attention to what draws you away from the...
Practical Bhakti
Bhakti yoga is the yoga of devotion. It is associated with practices of singing, dancing, with selfless service, with the dedication of one’s actions to that which one considers the highest, with...
Prāṇa and Prāṇāyāma – An Anecdote and Some Reflections
I heard an interesting story from one of my Sanskṛt teachers, let’s call him the Professor. This teacher is a resident of Mysore, a seat of traditional Sanskṛt learning, and also in recent times a...
Pain and Yoga – Note to Self
Pain is inevitable. Pain is an intrinsic and very necessary part of the human experience. Pain helps protect us. It can be our friend. Yes, pain and suffering can beat us down, if we let them, but...
Picking up Good Vibrations – Sanskrit and Yoga Part One by James Boag
Yoga is a state of balance, of integration. It could be described as that state in which the seeming pairs of opposites that characterise our experience of existence: such as up and down, light and...
What is Practice – Mysore Morning Freewrite 4th March 2018
What is practice? Life is practice. Life, as it is said, is the field of bondage, and the field of liberation.Yoga techniques are preparation for the practice that is life. We get what we need. If...
Yoga Re-perceived
Contrary to what is sometimes perceived: Yoga is not just a ‘physical’ practice Rather, yoga works with the whole body of human experience, using practical, natural, sustainable resources to help us...
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’...