Yoga In Action

We have just returned from a week on a sailing boat in Cornwall. The plan was to help sail the boat up the West Coast and back to Scotland. However, with adverse weather conditions, we spent the week sheltering up-river.

Being on the sea is an energetic challenge for me. As a strongly air-orientated person, I am much more at home at the top of a mountain where I feel comfortable and free, than on or in the water. Indeed, there were moments when we were on very rough seas where I would rather have been anywhere else and found my mind closing in and my breath becoming slow and rhythmic, trusting in the experienced sailors on board, until it was over.

Yoga is not only what we do on the mat, we can take it into all of our daily life aswell. As an example of this, when calmer seas returned, I realised that I had been practising yoga.

The regular practice of yoga helps us on a number of levels. We can learn to meet fear and adversity with poise and balance and to accept and confidently work with, rather than attempting to resist or control, the awesome power of nature. We can learn to trust and respect the knowledge and abilities of others and maintain energetic balance within ourselves and in our relationship with the world.

In September, we invite you to explore with us the many ways in which yoga can enhance your life by coming to one of our classes or workshops.