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Newspapers and new ideas

Over the past couple of months, there’s been an interesting series of pieces in the mainstream press about yoga. I’m sure many of you have read at least one of them, but possibly not the whole thread of responses. In fact, if you’re like me, you only skim the headlines of most mainstream media ‘articles’ …

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Making meaning together

I ran the first session of the Yoga Studies Reading Group this month, and I’m so glad I’m doing this. It was a small but engaged group, and the conversation flowed really nicely. If you’re thinking of joining us, sign up with Nourish, drop into the Google classroom to pick up the relevant reading, and …

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Working with me

Working with me I have the privilege of being asked to be a guest faculty member on yoga teacher trainings around the world. Most of these invitations have come about when I know the programme or the training provider in some way. Occasionally someone approaches me out of the blue and I check them out …

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In translation again

There’s a lot of interesting research into the effects of language acquisition on the brain, but at the risk of misrepresenting a whole field of study, what we have experienced, what we are able to say and what we are able to think are all quite closely related. Anyone fluent in more than one language …

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Getting back in touch

The COVID pandemic has changed the teaching of yoga and movement in profound ways. Perhaps the most obvious was the move into online spaces, and thus away from all the advantages and risks of close physical proximity. Interestingly, this just happened to hit in the middle of a live debate among the yoga teaching community …

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