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‎I love Nepal but it's struggle breaks my heart.\n‎\n‎It has been a pretty unsettling time recently. It is hard to know where to start. I finished my volunteering and left my young, kind friends. The actual saying goodbye ...

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When I signed up to volunteer in a monastery, I was expecting a bustling environment of nuns, children and visitors coming to perform rituals, receive teachings and offer prayers, all adding up to a festival atmosphere. ...

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I realised last week that it is amazing that I am here in Nepal. This trip wasn't on my radar a year ago or even six months ago. Now here I am once more, experiencing this different lifestyle, more acutely this time, as ...

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I’m glad I didn’t write this as soon as I came back from the retreat. The dust has settled. What is important has come to the fore and less important fallen away – although I will share both.

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Sunday 27th August 2023 10:30pm – 20 minutes

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So where was I… I was in Nepal with my niece embarking on a trek with our friend Khadka from Himalayan Sunrise Trekking

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This isn’t one of those uplifting posts. It is probably the opposite. You don't have to read it. I have been pretty angry and sad the last two weeks and I want to get it off my chest. Plus this is my blog so really I c...

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The Cambridge dictionary describes science as “(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of the...

","url":"https://yogaatplay.co.uk/f/the-scientist---yoga-is-a-science","title":"The Scientist - Is Yoga a science?","summary":"The Cambridge dictionary describes science as “(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of the...","date_modified":"2023-09-09T15:59:32Z"},{"id":"https://yogaatplay.co.uk/f/equanimity-and-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","html_content":"

I really like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns (actually I really like Clint Eastwood but SUPER like him in Westerns). It isn’t just his slim hips and great jaw line. It is his #Equanimity that gets me. Cool cal...

","url":"https://yogaatplay.co.uk/f/equanimity-and-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","title":"Equanimity and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly","summary":"I really like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns (actually I really like Clint Eastwood but SUPER like him in Westerns). It isn’t just his slim hips and great jaw line. It is his #Equanimity that gets me. Cool cal...","date_modified":"2023-03-02T16:20:13Z"},{"id":"https://yogaatplay.co.uk/f/heavenly-social","html_content":"

The other week I met up with one of my old yoga teachers. We ended up talking about his time working for British Telecom back in the 70s and 80s. He told me how he had attended BT sports days, BT cricket matches, BT car ...

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If I had to give an elevator pitch around Yoga, it would go something like this…

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Earlier in this month that contains “The most wonderful time of the year” I was having a few bad days.  I was tired, probably a bit run down.  I felt like I was getting nowhere, and no one loved me. Possibly being a bit ...

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A bit of background... The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali give us some ethical ideas of how to move around the world without being horrible! There are 5 principles or 'Yamas'. The second Yama is Satya, being truthful. Satya ...

","url":"https://yogaatplay.co.uk/f/truth-goodness-and-beauty---ruminations-on-satya","title":"Truth, Goodness and Beauty* - Ruminations on Satya","summary":"A bit of background... The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali give us some ethical ideas of how to move around the world without being horrible! There are 5 principles or 'Yamas'. The second Yama is Satya, being truthful. Satya ...","date_modified":"2021-12-02T18:35:49Z"},{"id":"https://yogaatplay.co.uk/f/exodus---movement-of-jah-people","html_content":"

My Dad left his home in rural Ireland in the late 1950s. His family were poor. My Dad wanted better prospects, to be able to give money to his mum and, to be honest, the excitement and bright lights of London. So he cam...

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Sometimes an incident occurs, and it stops you in your tracks. A moment of humanity, clarity. And if you are present, you realise the human race is not the bunch of wrong ‘uns that’s portrayed. The media constantly play...

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So far I have been very lucky. Death has visited, but on the whole, within the natural order of things – my mum and dad decided to leave us first within a few years of each other. I feel an immense gratitude that death h...

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Or, how to practice to yoga when you're feeling sad and grumpy.

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This is yet another post on my sitting still practice. I really don’t mean to be a bore about it. I feel a bit like one of those people that have stopped smoking and don’t stop banging on about not smoking. Or maybe a...

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First off, just to say I absolutely do not intend to post this regularly. I'm sure we are all relieved about that.

","url":"https://yogaatplay.co.uk/f/the-sound-of-silence---my-attempts-at-stilling-the-mind","title":"The Sounds of Silence - my attempts at stilling the mind.","summary":"First off, just to say I absolutely do not intend to post this regularly. I'm sure we are all relieved about that.","date_modified":"2021-03-20T09:07:10Z"},{"id":"https://yogaatplay.co.uk/f/the-big-o","html_content":"

If you don’t receive my weekly emails containing links to classes and random thoughts, then you wouldn’t know that it was only last week I set up this website. I have been working very hard. But if you clicked on the Blo...

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