Yoga may reduce Irregular heartbeat.
Posted by yogi Tobye in Interesting stuff, Yoga on 04. Apr, 2011 | 0 Comments
Rigorous practice of yoga may improve irregular hearbeat.
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 [...]
10 Euro Yoga classes in kilcoole!
Posted by yogi Tobye in Yoga on 25. Feb, 2011 | 0 Comments
All classes now only 10 euros! Further reductions for paying for classes in advance. Related articles Lose the Holiday excess with Yoga in Kilcoole, co. Wicklow. (yogitobye.com) Extreme hiking! (elephantjournal.com) Hello Dreams. Goodbye. Tales of a Yogi Householder. (elephantjournal.com) The truth about Ireland’s economy. (elephantjournal.com) Silverback walks like a man! (elephantjournal.com) Irish artist seeks royalties [...]
Ten percent of the world’s population are obese? Time for some yoga!
Posted by yogi Tobye in Interesting stuff, Yoga on 04. Feb, 2011 | 0 Comments
Acoording to research done by Harvard University in the US and Imperial College London, ten percent of the world’s population are now obese. In a joint study published in The Lancet, High blood-pressure and Cholesterol levels are down around the globe, but are obesity levels are steadily rising. Obesity, high blood-pressure and high cholesterol are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yogi Tobye music!
Posted by yogi Tobye in music on 13. Nov, 2010 | 8 Comments
\"burning heart\" by yogi Tobye. Recorded this a while back. Just click above and a player should come up automatically.
Yoga for bears!
Posted by yogi Tobye in Yoga on 17. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Hatha yoga pradipika (one of the earliest texts on yoga) states that there are 84,000 different yoga postures, of which only 84 are advantagious for people. Nearly all emulate an animal in some kind of way and there’s postures called “the scorpion” “downward dog” “camel” “crow” etc. The bear in this picture isn’t actually [...]
How to find a good yoga teacher.
Posted by yogi Tobye in Yoga on 26. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Ireland hasn’t caught on to yoga the way the rest of Europe or America has, but it’s getting there, every noticeboard in most towns is full with ads for yoga classes. So, here as everywhere else, those people looking to try yoga for the first time, must be asking themselves the questions “what type of [...]
