Yogic Movement Articles
Whole Life Yoga Immersion: Review
You can recognize a good yoga workshop by the fact that its effect gradually matures in you. That's why I’ve waited until now to give my review of YOGA IMMERSION.If I had to choose one word that...
Rehab Recipe: Yogic Movement
I sometimes say there is no such thing as merely physical yoga practice, or merely intellectual or devotional practice. If it’s yoga then it will be addressing the whole human being. Yogāsana...
On Injury and Health, Life and Death
I injured my knee at the beginning of August. A month on, I was asked: ‘How is your knee?’ Well, it is not yet functioning to allow full range of motion. Plyometric training not yet on the menu....
Fighting Monkey Reflection – 2021 Zero and Wholeness Injury and Health
I had been interested in Fighting Monkey for several years. 2020, with all my in-person work cancelled, I was able to join their summer intensive. This year, I returned to Ancient Olympia, looking...
Life, Yoga and Contact Improvisation AND I Want to Live in a World Where People Dance on Train Station Platforms
My friend Paul, with whom I have co-taught a few times in different places, is a long-time Contact Improvisation practitioner. We have usually taught in relation to yama-niyama, the foundational...
Śavāsana – Sleeping in Peace and The Art of Living and Dying
In the early years of my yoga explorations, living in Thailand, I had the good fortune to attend āsana classes with Adrian Cox at the original Yoga Elements Studio, Bangkok. I remember in one of my...
Yoga and Sport (Part Two)
Recreation, sport, competition and competence Competition, as it is often understood these days, could be seen to go against yoga. By definition, yoga is all inclusive. It leaves nothing out. Yoga...
On The History of Yoga Āsana
A few years ago was published a book advancing a very narrow and very particular thesis on the ‘origins’ of physical yoga practice and modern āsana. In this book, the author suggests that the...
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...
Weightlessness with Almog Loven – A Recommendation
I have now had the privilege of attending two Weightlessness weekend programs with Almog Loven in London, 2018 and 2019. Both times, I organised/re-arranged work and international travel commitments...
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...