by Jenny-May While | Dec 15, 2019 | Blog
Perhaps the body-mind is a colony of single-cell organisms, drawn together for a brief period of co-operation to facilitate what we refer to as a life. Like a colony of ants, each with its own specific function and purpose, each individual cell works for the societal...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 13, 2019 | Blog
This was a fascinating lecture, and one that I’ve had to spend some time unpicking. My notes below do not do it justice, but hopefully give a sense of the depth of enquiry in which we are engaged in the practice of yoga, in the practice of living. Life is...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog
Being taught by Prashant Iyengar this last week or so has been a revelation of kinds. He is a philosopher of the truest colours. As a linguist and etymologist he often ‘invents’ word structures to express the truth at the core of meaning. His craft as a...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog
In towns and cities everywhere The fathers yawn, the children stare And wonder ‘Why did mummy go? Will she be here if we get snow? She’ll not be there to make my tea, To make things fair for she, for he. Some time at least she’ll be away And I...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 6, 2019 | Blog
I went with a friend to find an ayurvedic doctor today, for a consultation and massage. We got lost. When we finally found the address it turned out he had moved. A young woman came out on the front porch of the neighbouring apartment. ‘Are you from the Iyengar...
