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It’s a resolution we’ve probably heard before. Yoga is a perfect way to start off the new year. If you’ve practised yoga on and off, want to get more into your practice, are a newcomer or just want to know what all the fuss is about, here’s you chance. It’s the New Year and practising yoga is a resolution you can achieve easily!

“Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure”.
– yoga wisdom from Rainier Maria Rilke.

There’s an old Italian phrase that can teach us a lot when it comes to experiencing every day life. Il bel far niente, translates to beauty of doing nothing.

“He who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear”.
– From Yoga Isa Upanishad

“All things first originate in the mind. Things and events depend heavily on motivation” – Some yogic wisdom from The Dalai Lama I guess it’s true – I have to think about murdering my neighbours who drink excessively and argue at 3am, before I actually murder them…. Yours, Yoga Genie Chief Bloggist, Yoga Whatever…

“When I started doing asana, the yoga postures, I had a strong feeling of many unnecessary things dropping away – especially tension and inadequacy.” –          A yoga quote from Patricia Sullivan Ah inadequacy… How fortunate that this little gem should leap in to my lap after my previous reflection.  Thank you Patricia. Yours, Yoga Genie […]

Goenka is a great teacher. I have studied occasionally at the Vipassna yoga centre in the Blue Mountains. I miss Goenka when I am not doing Vipassna.

Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions.

I was looking for something to show to some curious teenagers who were stitting around our dining table trying to work out what kind of yoga centre they wanted to go to. I guess it gave me cause for thought on my recent bitch about yoga celebritism… there’s nothing like a spontaneous leadership moment to remind you that you are also just another kid in the wilderness…

Yes, yes I do agree… but I kind of have the poos about the fact we resort to quoting Sting in yoga course texts these days.

Here’s where it starts… yoga compliments your other spiritual practice – sure, but lets not deny the roots of yoga.

I was thinking of a friend of mine who died all-too-soon from cancer when I drew this yoga quote from my pile of books today.