The eight limbs

You read in many places and hear from many people, many yogi and yogini included that 'yoga is not a religion'. I guess thats true to a point, however yoga is a spiritual path and is derived from a specific perspective on the universe. A practitioner may or may not subscribe to that perspective, or perhaps to parts of it, but frankly (as a well known yoga teacher once said) practising asana (yoga postures/positions) without attention to the 'eight limbs' of yoga is just gymnastics...

Ashtanga diaries???

A bit of an account of my introduction to ashtanga yoga and the way it became one of the focal points of my world.....

About 8 months ago, I had a bit of a life turnaround. No crisis, no crash, no breakdown, it was all much simpler and yet much more profound than that - I gave up smoking and found yoga. The two things were more or less simultaneous. The yoga introductory course was a welcome distraction from the misery of stopping smoking after nearly 25 years (I started at the age of 14). Little did I know that it would turn into an obsession of similar power and persuasion, albeit a much healthier one.

Its never too late to take up yoga, or so we're told, and while I agree 100% with that, I do think there are some peculiarities of being middle aged when you start. Some of these I hope to share via this page. Some may be too personal. I'm not sure yet. Lets see how it goes.

Namaste!