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Competitive Yoga performer demonstrating an advanced posture while judges hold up scores, raising questions about Yoga becoming an Olympic sport.

Should Yoga Be an Olympic Sport? Eight Reasons Why Not

The growing campaign to make Yoga an Olympic sport is, to my mind, a troubling development in modern Yoga. I ...
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What Actually Helps My Mental Health

Real reflections from everyday life - beyond trends, performance and hacks Mental Health Awareness Week (in May) often brings a ...
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How to Practice in the Holidays

How to Practice in the Holidays: Whether you are home, or away, the summer holiday season pulls us off kilter ...
OM symbol shown on wood plaque

More than a Mantra in Yoga: the sound of OM

There is a high probability that whether you practice Yoga or not, or even have an interest in Yoga or ...
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5 Ways to embrace the Yoga tradition in your Modern Yoga Practice

Do you, as a yoga student or teacher, ever wonder: how much of modern yoga, or the yoga I do, ...

Finding Peace – from productivity

I write this to the sound of a fire, sitting a desk facing rolling hills in a corner of south ...

Is the Truth out there? dealing with news in the modern era

I was 15 when the Gulf War broke (the first one, to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control). I was already ...

What happened after my meditation retreat

I got back to London last night, after 10 days' away. A few of those days were road tripping through ...

What’s up guys? – what men say they need for their wellbeing

While wars rage, waters pollute, civil unrest abounds, people row about gender and corruption and scandals ever roll on… a ...