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Look for the best to achieve success: Appreciative Inquiry & Yoga Business
Your yoga business is failing. You barely have enough clients to cover your costs, and you’re finding it difficult to survive in a competitive market. The usual strategy would be to examine what you are doing wrong. Perhaps you would look at a successful competitor...
And so to bed…. Sleep guru Dr Rubin Naiman at the Sivananda Ashram Bahamas
Dr Rubin Naiman is man with a mission: he wants to elevate the status of sleep. He believes that for too long it has stood in the shadow of the waking state, only valued for its ability to make waking life better. "We have lost our deep regard for sleep," he says and,...
Sanskrit, Sutras & Sleep Deprivation: Sivananda ATTC
The Sivananda ATTC (advanced teacher training course) is not the most practical of yoga courses in terms of teaching. Okay, so you learn how to do some of the more advanced asanas, but that's about it. The rest of the time you are trying to embed the sanskrit alphabet...
You can always get what you want: Joe Dispenza at the Sivananda Ashram Bahamas
“Turn to the person next to you and tell them, you’re a genius.” This is how Dr Joe Dispenza, chiropractor, neuroscientist and author of Evolve your Brain: the Science of Changing your Mind, begins his talk. His small stature, curly dark blond hair and black jeans and...
South India Comes to the Caribbean: the Sivananda Ashram Bahamas
This one of the oddest co-incidences in my life. Over ten years ago, I was a shipping journalist, specialising in the cruise industry. Every year, I would go to Miami for the cruise conference, spending all day traipsing round the stands in my Italian suit and all...
Tibetan Sadhanas
I've been going to a Tibetan Buddhist temple on and off for about four years (in Florence and now in Bournemouth). The normal 'drop-in' sessions that I attend usually involve meditation, usually of the mindfulness type — i.e. focussing on the breath/body, an object...