energy wheels

chakras.. if you ask me to imagine my mother sat in lotus in the palm of my hand. this will cause me amusement, firstly as my mother would say she has bad knees & can't 'do' yoga & lets face it i wouldn't be able to hold her in my hand so i'd drop her, serene & yogic is not quite the image that I can conjure.. i asked Colin yesterday if i was like my mother & he replied... i don't know your mother, we just get occaisional glimpses, i found this quite a profound but correct statement..

then ask me to hold my father between my hands in virabhadrasana 1... the only lasting image i have of my father is on a stainless steel table, skull split in 3 & very messy... this doesn't disturb me at all anymore, this is just how it is

& those people i am asked to think about while in firelog & then janu.. they no longer hold the disappointment I once had, they are just part of my past.. 

& Dudley.. who i once lost my temper with.. he is far wiser & forgiving than i.. i doubt he even remembers it..



i'm halfway on my Teacher Training & half way through my Foundation 2.... & as its always said.. when you are wanting to walk away from something.. this is when you really need to stay

I love my FC2, there is something about this teacher, she gives me a sense of calm/understanding that no other teacher does.. I could say its the Jivamukti.. her disciplined dance background.. maybe that is part of it.. i can't answer that, all i know is that she is my teacher for a reason, the day she told us a story about a woman who forgave the man who killed her son & then asked me to sit on her mat, that day so could have been avoided if she hadn't asked me about my personal practice... how could she know that hit a place in me especially just a few weeks on from Ian applying for parole a second time.... in another workshop a few eeks after she asked us to offer up our final wheel to someone who has a postive place in our lives & came & patted me on my belly whilst up there.... there are simply to many coincedences

I like my teacher training, maybe i will learn to love it.. eventually, i feel out of place.. i'm sure i'm not alone in that thought process

i'm fighting Yoga at the moment, the last 5 years of my life i've 'conciously' lived Yoga.. yet these past 5 years i haven't been as content as before.. is that the yoga process i'm going through.. its not a great place, the physiotherapy especially has really taken me to a place of great fear & it doesn't seem to be getting better, although i know it is, its just a very long process of  damage limitation & repair.. 

.. i can't pretend to be someone i'm not.. 

Deva Premal is here soon in the Nottingham playhouse £65.. i'd much rather pay to see someone i love for that money.... the yoga collective here (Derby/Notts) are all going ... i love chanting so much & Deva Premal & Mitten are great but i don't feel the need to be there..  just because.. 

i am the sheep of shades of grey & meerly a tiny piece of a huge jigsaw

Rosemary Bennett - 18th May

YOGIC ARTS | VINYASA LIFE: Exploring the Vinyasa Krama Code with Duncan Wong

Thu 31st Oct 2013
18:00 to 21:30

In this transformational workshop led by Duncan Wong, creator of the international Yogic Arts synthesis system, we will explore the awakening of transformative change that pulsates at the core of our being. Following the mantra “Know Your Body – Know the Universe”, the intention of this workshop is to create an experience of physical enlightenment, the foundation of ancient higher mind principles.

This workshop, will examine the fine art of how to categorize various stance structures and posture mechanics in a choreographed sequence of movements, with an emphasis on the connecting motions that create the powerful flow we call Vinyasa Chikitsa (Breath-Motion Therapy); resulting in a fresh perspective and experience of Vinyasa Life.

We will relate to how the body is naturally designed to synchronize breath and motion in a specific healing way, that builds the required heat from the inside outwards, combined with the attention to our intention of therapeutically purifying the innermost part of our physical being, which is the bone marrow, and every subsequent layer of our material form, being then, joints (enablers of bone movement), muscles (movers and stabilizers of bones), nerves (messengers of the action and energy of muscles), organs (actors of movement and energy) and glands (commanders of heat and bio-chemical balance), to create a glowing and radiant form that moves easily within the construct of our mindful body.

The practice model of this flow will be to explore the innate intelligence of our yogic flow with an emphasis on the roots of Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga, which is the sequencing code that was designed to prepare the mid, heart and body, pose by pose and their connecting motions, from a Yogic Arts perspective, that was developed by Duncan over the past 25 years.

4/5/6th May... lots of work done

Jivamukti comes to Calow 27/4