Brownsea Island

Just back from beautiful Brownsea Island ...nature at its best.  Red Squirrels and Sika Deer and so many birds!    The sea and forest added to our deep connection with nature and refreshed the spirit as always.

Also met some wonderful people and now back for Yoga up to end of year.   Some photos for you to enjoy.

Krishnamurti Wise Words

To bring up children without comparison is true education

"One is everlastingly comparing oneself with another, with what one is, with what one should be, with someone who is more fortunate. This comparison really kills. Comparison is degrading, it perverts one's outlook. And on comparison one is brought up. All our education is based on it and so is our culture. So there is everlasting struggle to be something other than what one is. The understanding of what one is uncovers creativeness, but comparison breeds competitiveness, ruthlessness, ambition, which we think brings about progress. Progress has only led so far to more ruthless wars and misery than the world has ever known. To bring up children without comparison is true education." - Letters to a Young Friend,18

Full Moon Tonight

Autumn Term Mon 3rd and Wed 5th Sept

This term there will be two meditation circles in October and a Silent Walk and end of year social in December in addition to the flow classes on monday and wednesday evenings

Please contact me for full details if you wish to join us.

Opening the Heart

Patanjali Sutra related to Calming the Mind: 
The Heart meditation we will be practising in the Yogawise Circle focuses on cultivating
four important attitudes outlined in this Sutra: 
1. an attitude of friendliness towards those who are happy;
2. compassion towards the unhappy;
3.  delight and joy for the virtuous
 4.  an indifference to those who do wrong.
 Patanjali also says that concentrating on our inner light steadies the mind. Our Eternal Self can be found  in  the brilliant inner light radiating from the heart Chakra, the energy centre of our hearts. 
 Seeing that supreme light within ourselves takes us beyond all anxieties, fear and worry

Olympics London 2012

Our beautiful Bushy Park welcomes the cyclists after their trek through the streets of London and past our riverside in Richmond and Twickenham.        The Diana Fountain shone in gold and the Goddess truly blessed them all in their endeavour to strive for perfection!
Michelle Obama gave a truly inspiring welcome to the USA team and her words must have spurred on the little Gabrielle (another angel!) USA gymnast who won Gold. 
I love the feeling of all the nations here together playing and sharing with each other as well as competing.
All the little things that go astray are not as important as this opportunity for all of us to see the things which we share in common rather than our differences.  Perhaps the day will come when there will be one flag and one anthem and one team?    WE ARE ONE!

Summer Solstice Wishes

Solstice - The sun stands still.  A time for fertility in all its forms to flower.  Father sky and Mother earth rejoice!


II.42. SAMTOSAD ANUTTAMAH SUKHA-LABHAH
'From contentment comes supreme happiness.'
Commentary:
We are ever searching for happiness in external objects, but it can
only be attained when the mind is satisfied with what has been allotted
and is no longer looking. When the mind is stilled and contented,
happiness is automatic.


I was reading the above sutra this morning and it felt very apt for this time of 'austerity' for some and immense wealth for others. If one is content then either extreme is of no importance and we all know from our own experience how we are sometimes very happy when not that well off and very sad when we have riches. It all depends on our inner state of mind.

As the sun stands still perhaps we can also meditate and be still and content.  Join with our soul group in this momentous 2012 and see what unfolds.

Shiva on the banks of the Ganges amidst all the work and mud and toil sits serenely and allows all to be exactly as it is.

Transit of Venus - Return of the Goddess

Many are feeling the powerful energy of the stars in their courses!   Tuesday 5th June will herald the transit of Venus and it will be the last time this occurs in our lifetime so perhaps a little space to reflect on the wonders of our universe and the wonder or our existence at all.
Meditation will help to balance us and accept what is in this present moment and also to allow any changes that need to happen to happen without resistence.  Resistence will only give us pain...reisitence is truly futile in the case of universal law and karma.
I wish you all who are awakening or who are awake already GRACE and PEACE and LOVE.

Om shanti