To be content is to be free of desire, envy and restlessness.  Contentment is not just passively accepting ones 'lot' and wallowing in it, but using it for positive means, understanding it.  Contentment is living in the here and now, for only 'now'...

SWADHYAYA is the fourth Niyama. Swadhyaya means Self study, Self analysis and Self awareness.  "O man, knoweth Thy self and the source from which though camest."  One must continually study, question, listen, contemplate and digest, whilst rem...

Published: July 2005 Yoga Life Vol.36 No. 07, Pondicherry, India. As I look out of my kitchen window into the gravelled corner of my Japanese garden, I can see some green weeds growing on the gravel!  Although I have put a black membrane down...

Published: July 2008 Yoga Life Vol.39 No. 07, Pondicherry, India. "Give me another term for Samadhi!" I asked my small advanced Yoga class.  The answers came fast and furious: "Bliss / Right Knowledge / Peace / Self Awareness / Nirvana / Total ...

Published: Feb. 2008 Yoga Life Vol.39 No. 02, Pondicherry, India. The whole of the material universe exists because of the 'play of opposites'.  This idea sheds awareness on the play of opposites within our Asana practice.  When we sit up, the...