Who am I? What is the true nature of the Self? These are the questions that have consumed philosophers and yogis for thousands of years.

In 2017 Iyengar Yoga Australia (IYA) protested the scrapping of private health coverage for 16 natural health therapies including yoga, effective from 2019, because we objected to the basis of the decision – namely that there was not enough scientific evidence to show yoga works. The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Review of […]

The following is an excerpt from an article I wrote a while ago for Australian Yoga Life, to celebrate Mr Iyengar’s centenary in 2018. You can download the entire article here. “In 1918, 100 years ago, the deadly Spanish flu pandemic swept across the world, killing 30 million people, 17 million of them in India. […]

Well Winter is unequivocally here in Sydney and it sets me to cooking! Here’s a delicious recipe I can recommend from Ottolenghis’s book Plenty. It’s great to have time to cook and nourish ourselves, friends and family. It’s the simple things that make life enjoyable after all!

Last time I went camping I was reading Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths, in which he explains that deep time is beyond human comprehension. Surrounded by the stillness of the land, I got to thinking – perhaps the deep beauty of nature and the deep humanity of life itself are also beyond the capacity of […]