I joined the TT program at CHYS in 2015, under Marina Jung’s steady watch. It seemed fitting to be in a place that held many memories, like my first ever yoga term with Vaughan Allan, or my first taste of inversions with Frank Jessie. But really, I joined the TT program because of Marina. I had been…
I will always remember that April 2015 afternoon when my friend Sue Drummond brought me to visit Clifton Hill Yoga Studio. The memory of entering the studio is still very fresh in my mind. What struck me the most was a huge, black and white framed picture of Guruji on the wall sitting in Sukhasana!…
Below is a guest blog post by Dr Stuart McGill. He’s a long term, direct debit yoga student at Clifton Hill Yoga School. Let’s know if you have a guest blog post you’d be happy for us to publish here. Over to Stuart: I like to do a lot of high quality yoga, at…
Reflections on Geetaji’s 70th birthday convention, Yoganasasanum held at the Balewadi Stadium, Pune in India, from 1 December 2014 to 10 December 2014. This blog is how I interpret the convention at one point in time. My thoughts may change on further reflection and access to the DVDs. By Marilyn Allen. Before I even arrived…
Yoga isn’t about our lifestyle, our beliefs, our weight, our diet, our flexibility, how spiritual or enlightened we are—yoga is just about showing up and doing our dance on our mats. Yoga doesn’t care what your hair looks like. Yoga doesn’t care if you wear Lululemon or Spiritual Gangster. Yoga doesn’t care if you are vegetarian,…
I recently saw the excellent film “Whiplash”, which documents a fictional account of the trials of becoming a professional musician in New York City. At one point the conductor, the chief antagonist of the film, comments that telling a professional musician they’d done a “good job” was the biggest insult you could give them. It…
So you love yoga? You’ve been absorbed and captivated by it. Your teacher keeps telling you that you need to start practising at home, that this is what it’s all about. Summer’s coming and you’ll have more time. You want to dedicate it to start doing yoga on your own terms, in your own space….
Many of Clifton Hill Yoga Studio’s yoga students are taking the art of yoga into their daily lives. You may be one of them. Yoga teaches us skills of observation, compassion, self-care, non-judgement and clarity. These are skills that come into play in each moment of our lives. Some people still regard yoga as a sport…
Practicing hatha yoga three times a week can improve sedentary adults’ performance on cognitive tasks that are relevant to everyday life, a promising study indicates. The study involved 108 adults between ages 55 and 79 years; 61 of them attended hatha yoga classes. The others met for the same number and length of sessions and…
In contemporary yoga classes, teachers often speak of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras,” a philosophical text compiled around two thousand years ago, as the wellspring of the practice. This requires an imaginative leap, because the yoga sutras say next to nothing about physical poses; their overriding concern is the workings of the mind. Yoga, the sutras say,…