We all live with pain and our tendency is to avoid it. Each time we avoid it we create a layer of sensitivity and the pain stays stuck in you, affecting everything you do.

It doesn’t matter what others do, unless you decide that it matters to you. . .

Is there an ‘inner thorn’ niggling away at you? Is someone or something in your life this week offering you the opportunity to grow? 

Freeing ourself starts with letting go of trying to control life…

What’s your personal goal this August? How will you stay accountable?

‘Your centre of consciousness is always stronger than the energy that is pulling on it’. 

free yourself from yourself.. set a clear direction and resist allowing the wandering to deter you.

Where do I need to put in a little more effort, to be self-disciplined? Where do I need to remind myself the greater gains are more beneficial than the desires, which present themselves each day.

Contentment is a feeling which tends to stay with you, has a sense of depth to it, of radiating out.

What helps you to keep a clear and calm mind? 

Conserving energy for what you need to do…

Kindness is free. Sprinkle that stuff everywhere!

In yoga we connect back with our body and mind through our focus on the poses (asana) and on our breath.

'Simply do not run away from yourself. Our society and culture offer us many distractions, many entertaining toys to help us run away from ourselves

Suzuki Roshi said that our practice is constantly losing our balance against a background of perfect balance. That is what re-pose is about, to lose our balance constantly, but to return to some upright, dignified posture. And this is true in our life….