September 27, 2017
“Knowledge and Love are synonymous. Love is to join and knowledge is to tell. They need to go hand-in-hand.”
Dear One
How are you feeling now and how’s your practice going? My teacher, Iyengar, would visit London every summer for three weeks of intensive teaching...
August 29, 2017
As classes start again this autumn term there is a change in energies. In the animal kingdom too, there is a scuttling around preparing for winter burying berries and nuts. Coats and fleeces are thickening for warmth and, as John advises his class, winter drawers on!...
June 28, 2017
You might find this quote by Goethe, a philosopher in the 1740s, true and inspiring, as I do.
Commitment
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance...
April 28, 2017
Have you felt the effect of the spring energy lifting your spirits? You can see the effect on the animal and plant kingdoms as they wake up and start growing or scuttling about. With this energy I get too many ‘good ideas’, my mind gets busy and I just end up dead ti...
March 20, 2017
I have had more response from the last newsletter with the article on The Power of Love supposedly by Albert Einstein than I ever had in 25 years of newsletters. I am glad it went to your heart – mine too. Actually the Albert Einstein Museum have no record of this am...
February 10, 2017
"There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us. This universal forc...
January 19, 2017
Dear One
How is your practice going?
It is such a pleasure to return from Perth, Western Australia, to my local classes. In Perth, my daughter Karuna was busy teaching holiday Yoga classes for 5-7 year olds, great fun and quite demanding to keep their attention for 2 hou...
January 19, 2017
Dear One
With spring approaching, our body rhythms change. It’s a great time for the liver to cleanse; when the body is healthy enough elimination begins. You might experience sneezes and wheezes and even flu symptoms with a temperature. It’s not a bad sign as it sho...
January 19, 2017
Dear Ones,
Last weekend at Colet House went well. I have been visiting Colet ever since the 1960s and although I do think that for future weekends it will be more beneficial for all of us to be in the beauty of the countryside at places like Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire a...
January 19, 2017
Hello dear ones from Down Under
What makes the obvious difference? Is it the blue sky, the ocean, the bare feet, the sunshine, the space, the colour, the wildlife and the bird song? There’s more than one flowering season here and everything seems to grow much faster....