Reflection

Please enjoy and share the video link below which is a version of the Forgive Me track on  The Reflection CD available to hear on www.yogawise.co.uk.  Enjoy!

Forgive Me ~ Meditation

Diwali festival of Light

As we come to the last day of Diwali for 2012 we stay in the light amidst all the darkness arising in the world.    Love is all there is and even in conflict we do not take sides - we stay peaceful so that our peace spreads to others and their hate and suffering is absorbed by our love.   Difficult as this seems in dire situations we can be inspired by others who have chosen this path even when they have suffered terribly at the hands of others.  They have acknowledged that it is always ignorance that causes others to behave less than their true potential.  How can you not forgive a child who has yet to learn right from wrong?   

Let us hope many more humans chose to grow up sooner rather than later!

Please consider adding the Om Shanti Shanti Shanti  Om Peace Peace Peace chant/mantra to your daily meditation practise up to and including the winter solstice on 21st December 2012.

Be a Light in the World

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