Thoughts are real, right? How the yoga sutras of Patanjali can help us to understand mindfulness.

One of the first things that people say when they start to practice mindfulness is that thoughts are real.

To offer some help on this and as ever in yoga I turn to Patanjali and the yoga sutras.

You could say that the yoga sutras is in total a self help book, the original one.

Patanjai...

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Mindful Breathing and Resilience

There is now a lot of evidence based science around the benefits of breathing, which in its self sounds crazy because breath is life. It is the one thing that we all do. 

One of the things that my yoga teacher said that got me hooked on yoga was a Chinese saying that he repeated, something...

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Keep Life Simple
My yoga practice enhances my life, for me both life and yoga are one of the same thing.
 
This week my class inspiration is the word SIMPLE. As teachers and students of yoga we advised that our asanas (postures) are both easy and comfortable. But the effort it takes to be comfortable and...
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