by swatiyoga | Nov 3, 2013 | Ashram, Yoga
It’s a challenge getting to the Mandala ashram – a converted farmhouse perched on a hill in the middle of Wales — for pretty much any visitor. Not a bad thing necessarily: I felt like I was going on a pilgrimage. It took me four hours by car from Dorset:...
by swatiyoga | Apr 6, 2013 | Sivananda, Teaching Yoga, Yoga
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...
by swatiyoga | Mar 22, 2013 | Ashram, Sivananda, Yoga
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...
by swatiyoga | Dec 13, 2011 | Yoga
I live a couple of miles from the Jurassic coast, which features some of the most spectacular beaches in the UK, and from about the beginning of June to the end of September I go wild swimming. I really love doing this — it’s peaceful, invigorating and spiritual...
by swatiyoga | Nov 28, 2011 | Sivananda, Yoga
My first experience of Sivananda yoga was a husband and wife team who taught it in south London. They were pretty good; the husband was into military workouts as well, getting people to do press-ups and sit-ups in the damp grass on Greenwich Park, so the classes were...
by swatiyoga | Nov 24, 2011 | Yoga
My yoga practice up to now has been very classical. When I seriously started practising yoga over 10 years ago, I did astanga yoga, mysore style. This basically means you learn the set number of moves in a sequence (called the primary series) and when you come to...
