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Partying Yogi. Is ‘turmoil’ too strong a word?
That’s the point I find myself and dare I add, ‘yet again’. I’ve been partaking in the practice of yoga, at least the Asana or posture ‘limb’ for fifteen years now and it has indeed brought on profound...
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Yeehaws and Alligators
We’ve never really been the package tour types, though we have done a few and they’ve mostly been good delivering exactly what one would expect. But even when the kids were small we did some wonderful...
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Yoga Books
My qualification for this blog is that I’ve been practicing yoga for fifteen years, the last five of those being Ashtanga and also a dusting of Kundalini. I’ve been reading books associated with yoga...
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Kino MacGregor, London.
I’m writing this with the only things on my body that are currently not stiff and that’s the tips of my fingers (and ok yes the other one). This weekends Kino MacGregor yoga workshops in London are...
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The British Buddhist Holy Isle.
On the 18th April 1992 Buddhist Lama Yeshe Rinpoche bought a whole island off the coast from the Island of Arran which in turn is off the coast of Scotland. It is called Holy Isle and must not be...
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Tuk Tuks – avoiding death and scam
“Stop this tuk tuk right now or I’ll grab your keys” was one comment I screamed at a driver. There were many others. I estimate that we took more than a hundred tuk tuks in the few weeks travelling...
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Visiting India? You might not come back…
well I haven’t! – although my body is definitely in the UK, It seems I left something of me in India and possibly the best bit and for my sanity I’m going to have to go back and retrieve it or just go...
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Kino MacGregor – Bad Girl Yogi
It had to happen and it has. The holier than thou brigade have fired their angry arrows at the rising star of Ashtanga Yoga, Kino Macgregor, and they’ve thrown these white hot coals because Kino, in...
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Glastonbury 2013 – the shop fronts
Most years, at the end of June, 200,000 people are steered to pass by or/and encouraged not to go into the town of Glastonbury (logistics I assume) to instead revel at the makeshift Glastonbury...
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Mysore – The Guide
There is a lot more to the Indian city of Mysore than most people realise including the western yogis. It is the perfect city to head to for the India virgin. Not too large, it has all the elements of...
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Yoga Biking
As I understand things, all spiritual teachings are taught, essentially, to allow one to strive for one thing, stillness of mind. Yoga Asanas are there, as just one limb of eight, to prepare the body...
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Avocado Yoga. The Perfect Day
There are more than quite a few people who think that Avocado is a Spanish resort or an Italian motorbike and others that would swear it’s a style of zumba. The rest of us know it as that fruit that...
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Kino MacGregor Primary Series DVD review
At Amazon UK the amazon link I have been practicing yoga for 15 years now with the last six of those being Ashtanga with a teacher who some consider to be one of the best Ashtanga teachers in the UK –...
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Rishikesh! Yoga capital of the world
following on from http://kevollier.com/2014/07/02/beggars/ The bus from hell pulled in at Dehra Dun at 5 in the morning and still being 10 miles from Rishikesh allowed taxi drivers to take advantage,...
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Still My Guitar Gently Weeps
following on from http://kevollier.com/2014/07/25/rishikesh/ Rishikesh before the arrival of The Beatles in 1968 was pretty much unknown to Westerners but there is no doubting that it was indeed this...
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Yoga – the doorway to the 3rd stage of life?
Shakespeare divided life into “seven ages”. In Hinduism, human life is believed to comprise four stages. These are called “ashramas” and every person should ideally go through each of these stages: The...
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So 18 years on, to be a Yoga teacher……….
Today, approximately 18 years after entering my first yoga class I am filling in the form to take the 200 hours teacher training. This, has been a difficult and soul-searching decision to say the...
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Yoga. Why?
following on from http://kevollier.com/2015/05/25/so-18-years-on-to-be-a-yoga-teacher/ I think my decision to do the teacher training has brought up a lot of questions, particularly the one that will...
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What is Yoga?
You cannot, by definition take a photograph of yoga anymore than you can take a picture of a dream. And whether you have long or short hair or wear a Saddhu beard or are clean shaven or dress in woolly...
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