by Gregor Maehle | Dec 26, 2015 | Society/ civilisation, Teaching, Yoga Philosophy
In my last post I pointed out the importance of self-love for ones yoga practice. I was asked whether forgiveness is the start of self-love? It is indeed. When talking about forgiveness, however, we need to understand that it has two aspects, to forgive oneself and to...
by Gregor Maehle | Dec 12, 2015 | Asana, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
Recently I read an article in which the author wrote about her difficulties in maintaining her Ashtanga practice. She called her practice “hard, really hard, exhausting” and complained that it “never gets any easier” and that she just kept upping her expectations or...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Nov 28, 2015 | Asana, Ashtanga Yoga, Meditation and Samadhi, Teaching, Yoga Philosophy
Bringing our hands together in prayer is a universally understood gesture of peace and good intent. Prayer is an occasion to commune with our innermost heart. It abolishes the borders of religion and personalises our connection to Self. In the chamber of our heart we...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 20, 2015 | Ashtanga Yoga, Kundalini, Meditation and Samadhi, Teaching
I have been asked to write about the “Dark Night of the Soul”. The medieval mystic Saint John of the Cross coined the term and it describes the painful relapses of a spiritual seeker who has tasted (possibly repeatedly) freedom, joy and ecstasy only to rebound and to...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 7, 2015 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Asana, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama, Teaching, Yoga Philosophy
I was asked to comment on the statement, ‘All misalignment comes from incorrect breathing ‘. A teacher said this to one of my students when they explained that they had a postural imbalance. The teacher was insinuating further that if the student would get...