Quotes
Quote: Vanda Scaravelli on beauty
“There is no beauty without love and there is no love without beauty. What is beauty? Are love and beauty interconnected? Does beauty derive from love? Or does love derive from beauty? You will discover the amazing transformation in a person when she is loved, she blossoms, becoming more beautiful each day. When we love [...]
Practice
Practice without philosophy?
There have been a few newspaper articles recently where the practice of ‘yoga’ is done in a completely detached manner from the philosophy that underpins it – surely this is just stretching? Both articles appeared in the Guardian and covered two instances where asana was conducted without the philosophic endeavour of the practice – which [...]
News
John Friend: an independent profile?
I started going to Anusara classes about five years ago – at first I found them quite challenging, certain principles were quite different to what I’d been taught before, there was more to think about, but there was also a playfulness to the practice that I hadn’t quite experienced in other classes. As I started [...]
Lifestyle
A Sai Baba experience
In 2003, during an Indian road trip, I took a detour to Puttaparthi to visit the Sai Baba Ashram on one of the most auspicious dates in the Hindi calendar – the entire experience was over whelming, exciting, enchanting and unbelievable. This week, Sai Baba, one of India’s most revered sages passed away. Believed to [...]
