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  • Oak Tree Yoga Blog http://www.oaktreeyogablog.blogspot.co.uk/

    I am a long-time yoga student and yoga teacher. I write about yoga philosophy, modern and ancient yoga practice and about living well through yoga.

LATEST ARTICLES ( 62 )

  • Climbing Mountains

    I climbed a mountain last weekend. I climbed it with my dog. There are lots of references to mountains in yoga practice: you can meditate like a mountain,... Read more

    Posted on 10 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Don't Try to Figure This Out

    "Don't try to figure this out," said Bhagavan Das on a visit to London in 2005, "No one's that smart."It was strange, coming as it did at the end of a week... Read more

    Posted on 26 June 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • The Right to Be Well

    Sometimes I teach people whose bodies are so broken, or so tight, or so painful to them that they are, without knowing or acknowledging it, physically... Read more

    Posted on 18 June 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Why I Wake Early

    Hello, sun in my face.Hello, you who make the morning and spread it all over the fieldsand into the faces of the tulipsand the nodding morning glories,and into... Read more

    Posted on 03 June 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Seeds of Wisdom

    The seeds that I planted with my daughter this Spring have germinated and begun to grow. We have protected them from the interest of slugs and snails and an... Read more

    Posted on 21 May 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Fit for Life

    Your yoga practice should make you fit for life, that's all. It's not complicated. It's not elongating your muscles until you can get your foot behind your head... Read more

    Posted on 07 May 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • The Small Things

    As if to prove my point about silence, I was walking quietly in the woods last week when I heard a rustling in the undergrowth - I stopped to listen and to look... Read more

    Posted on 06 May 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • In Praise of Silence

    I love silence. Silence is the oil that lubricates my wheels, the store from which all my love comes, the well from which my inspiration springs. Read more

    Posted on 30 April 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Respect for Change

    You are tired, you are injured or you are stressed. The way you have been living of late, even the way you have been practising yoga, is no longer serving you. Read more

    Posted on 24 April 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Yoga Holiday

    I'm running a yoga holiday this September near the coast on a farm in the Suffolk countryside If you love yoga, meditation, pranayama and relaxation, If you lik... Read more

    Posted on 10 April 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • I Choose Growth

    When it comes to life, I choose growth.I choose growth over stagnating in a job or way of life that doesn't fulfil me.I choose growth over limiting ideas about... Read more

    Posted on 04 April 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Yoga for Children with Special Needs

    I could not tell you why I have always wanted to teach yoga to children with special needs; there is no reason for it, other than I just want to do it. Read more

    Posted on 22 March 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Silence

    When you get really quiet you can listen to the love-filled voice of your own heart, which knows you so well, your darkness and your light, and wants nothing -... Read more

    Posted on 20 March 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Yoga Sutra 1.33 - Growing Kindness

    The teachings of the Yoga Sutras were given by Patanjali some 2,000 years ago in the form of 196 sutras (threads) of wisdom. Each sutra contains a wealth of... Read more

    Posted on 12 March 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Winter and Me

    I used to think that I was like a bear in the winter, that all I wanted was a warm cave and a pile of leaves to snuggle up in, so that I might hunker down and... Read more

    Posted on 08 March 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • The Trouble with New Year Resolutions

    is that they are too easy to break; the trouble is that they tend to be commitments to one aspect of our life, mind or body, when nothing that we are or do... Read more

    Posted on 19 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • On Receiving Love

    Giving to others the love, care, empathy and support that you yourself would most like to receive is of course only one half of the love equation: you must be... Read more

    Posted on 07 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

  • On Love

    It is curious that there is only one word for the most crucial emotion humans possess; that we have more words for mud than we do for love. Read more

    Posted on 30 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Christmas Presence

    Christmas is a hard time of year to be a yogi. There is so much to do: so much planning, shopping, baking, wrapping presents and writing cards; there are partie... Read more

    Posted on 24 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

  • Yoga for a Lifetime: Yoga Sutra 3:6

    Yogena yogo jnatavyoYogo yogat pravartateYo prama tastu yogenaSa yoga ramate ciramOnly through yoga, yoga is known,Only through yoga, yoga progresses,One who... Read more

    Posted on 10 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION