Yogi’s Guide to Surviving Emotional Distress
Emotional distress, with its phenomenal range from apathy and depression to anxiety and rage, is arguably the most painful aspect of being alive. It is also what drives us forward [...]
A Yogi’s Guide to… well, um, Yoga!
Perhaps the most famous words ever written about yoga are in the second sutra of Patanjali: yoga is the cessation of the fluctuation of mind. Well, let me (perhaps) be [...]
A Yogi’s Guide to SEX
NB: This article isn’t really about sex. Except, of course, it is. When I was a university student, I joined an all-male a cappella group; yep, like a barber shop [...]
A Yogi’s Guide to Surviving ANGER
Alongside insecurity, anxiety and self-centeredness, one of my greatest emotional challenges in life has been anger. And while it was much worse in my teens and twenties, it still tests [...]
Yogi’s Guide to Surviving Lockdown
So, I won’t be the first to suggest that some good might come of the lockdown and social distancing enforced upon many of us by government action over the spread [...]
Meditation: Not What You Think
As a yoga therapist and meditation teacher, people often tell me that they cannot meditate. “I can’t silence my mind!” they complain. But where did we get the idea that [...]