by Jenny-May While | May 11, 2020 | Blog
Have you ever been there when someone is dying? If you have (and depending on the nature of the death) you may have noticed the phenomenal quality of love when death is close. When loved ones assemble in witness of a life’s twilight hours, love takes form and becomes,...
by Jenny-May While | Feb 16, 2020 | Blog
My young daughter loves to be naked. Her innocence is beautifully unspoiled. Her enthusiasm for music, nature, friends, the moon, often results in her shedding all of her clothes, running and dancing in the utter delight of being alive in her body. She loves the...
by Jenny-May While | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog
There’s this pair of shoes which are just perfect. They would really, really suit me. Silver, strappy, chunky, cool. They will look great and will perfect so many outfits. They will make me happy. If I can just have those shoes I won’t want anything else. Right?...
by Jenny-May While | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog
As always it’s been a privilege to take time away from family and daily working life to practise and study yoga. There are many people I know for whom this would not be possible. There are many more people I know for whom this would be possible and beneficial but is...
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...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 4, 2019 | Blog
Ooh, what a cracker of a class. It was balanced, intriguing, challenging, and delivered with gentle ease and contagious joy. Perhaps it was due to jet-lag, but I found this combination pretty intoxicating. Usually a good sign when you can’t really speak or...
