In my 33 years of teaching and learning I have been on, and led, many yoga retreats. The first yoga retreat I attended as a student in 1990 was with Peter Thomson at Tapitallee, a retreat centre in the bush near Nowra that had no electricity. I packed up my yoga mat and blankets and […]
20 Years of the Yoga Nook – Linda’s speech from the 20th anniversary party
Thanks everyone for coming to our 20th anniversary Christmas Party! It’s lovely to see you here. Some of us have grown up together, and some of us most likely will grow old together! We’ve brought up children, farewelled parents, and been through a pandemic together. Some of you have become teachers and now we are welcoming […]
Guruji’s 100 Years
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. […]
Winter warmer recipe
Yoga, deep time and deep humanity
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 […]
