Unlike the second limb of yoga, the Niyamas or yogic “Dos”, the Yamas define the “Don’ts”; the rules aimed at curbing our negative tendencies and keeping us on “the straight and narrow”. Between them they constitute yoga’s ethical foundation which is meant to not only facilitate positive karma, but to also help manage the energy that comes from awakening the Kundalini Shakti within.
What we know as yoga was collated and defined by the Hindu mystic Patanjali around the third century CE. Though the word is now most often used to refer to the set of postures (asanas), these constitute only one of the eight sutras or set of rules he wrote down.
Both Quakerism and yoga are similarly quiet, private practices, light on dogma and focused upon realising the divine within.
Perhaps starting a business is always a challenge, a lonely path with obstacles and doubters aplenty; one which calls for extraordinary self belief, resilience, diverse skills, and not so much objectivity.
Where to begin with this one? A potted history, overview, philosophical basis, fitness, weight loss…
It’s hard to follow a post about summer festivals with one on Armageddon, but it’s harder to ignore this headline. The unthinkable has always been planned, but now it seems we’re being prepared for a “tactical” nuclear war.
Everything’s changin’ around me and I wanna change too
It’s one thing I know, it ain’t cool bein’ no fool.
As we slip into Autumn it’s nice to remember just how peachy a summer it’s been. Not since the drought of ’77 have we seen so much sunshine and so little rain.
Does the moon also fall, was a question posed by Newton, who defined the laws of motion and first used calculus to predict the paths of planets and comets. Not only did he precipitate a seismic shift in human understanding, his mathematics helped to cast God as the creator of a great celestial mechanism, however…
Remember when media was created by studios, film makers were professionals and multimedia meant collage.
Isn’t your bed just the best place in the world?
Such a simple thing, yet luxury unimagined by the countless ancestors that foraged in dark forests and sheltered under damp animal hides.
The UK currently faces food inflation of 15% and fuel inflation of 50% over the past two years. Yet I doubt revolution is nigh, though encouragingly, today the blade finally fell on Boris Johnson’s fat craw.
Thank Crunchie it’s Friday!
But haven’t Friday’s lost their significance? The days of knocking off from work after lunch, early doors at the pub, the frisson of an envelope of cash and “something for the weekend”.
It’s the end of May and after some rainy days there’s a surge of growth at the allotment gardens.
Blogging has been superseded by finding the plot and sewing seeds.
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