The Global Yoga Business.
Posted by yogi Tobye in Philosophy, Yoga on 04. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
Now, for a lot of those studios, things have become tight. The majority of students are struggling to pay for their regular classes and studios have started to bring down prices which is a great thing
The flexibility of resignation.
Posted by yogi Tobye in Philosophy, Yoga on 25. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
No one style is better than the next but, it seems that a lot of the time yoga gets caught in trends where certain styles become more favourable than others
Is the Guru/Student connection lost the more big business Yoga gets?
Posted by yogi Tobye in Philosophy, Yoga on 24. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
Anyone can teach yoga postures, but to really teach yoga, I think the teacher has to have had some kind of epiphany.
Report suggests parents may die of a “broken heart”.
Posted by yogi Tobye in Interesting stuff, Philosophy, Yoga on 10. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Parents that suffer the loss of having their baby die within the first year, are more likely to then die prematurely themselves, a new report has found. Studies carried out in York and Sterling universities in Britain have found that bereaved parents are more than four times more likely to die within a decade of [...]
Is new york street drummer practising karma yoga?
Posted by yogi Tobye in Interesting stuff, music, Philosophy, Yoga on 03. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
What’s that saying about life giving us lemons and making lemonade? You know the one; when things don’t go the way you planned, you’ve got to get down and dirty, find that thing that you can do that makes people happy and do it. That’s what life is about in reality. If you’re not going [...]
Out with Love; Feeling our way forwards.
Posted by yogi Tobye in Meditation, Philosophy, Yoga on 15. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
My first meditation teacher was a guy called Andrew Henley. He taught meditation to all the Karuna teacher trainees at one point and to be honest, he was my first lesson in non-judgment beacuse he is a Barrister and before that, he was a senior ranking officer in the metropolitan police. Not really the kind [...]
The Science of Yoga.
Posted by yogi Tobye in Philosophy, Yoga on 14. Dec, 2010 | 0 Comments
There’s an on-going debate between Science and Religion. Religion takes everything on faith. There’s no proof of God existing, but we have faith, we believe. Belief is a strange thing, the Encyclopedia Brittanica states belief is; “a mental attitude of acceptance or assent toward a proposition without the full intellectual knowledge required to guarantee its [...]
The yoga of politics.
Posted by yogi Tobye in Philosophy on 22. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
Philosophically, we are all the politicians. Life IS politics. So if the political system isn’t working it’s because we made a mistake somewhere. It’s time to realise we are all part of it. We need a new world consciousness. We have to sit down and work out what we really want and then get up [...]
taking refuge in yoga.
Posted by yogi Tobye in Philosophy, Yoga on 17. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
Ok, so in Buddhism as well as yoga, there is a concept called “the 3 poisons”. The 3 poisons are; Attachment, Aversion and Ignorance. These poisons influence every part of human politics in every way. There is never an action or path we take that isn’t influenced in some way by these poisons. When we [...]
