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Review of Breath of the Gods

The Duke of Yorks at Komedia last weekend showed a film, Breath of the Gods, about the origins of modern yoga. It was fascinating to see how the painstaking work of one yoga guru, Krishnamacharya, directly led to the creation of various key schools of yoga and its rapid spread...

Yoga for students?

I visited the Sussex University student occupation against privatisation yesterday. It was inspiring to see so much support from students, staff, lecturers right across the campus all wearing or displaying yellow signs to indicate support. The Facebook page here shows what the dispute is about: https://www.facebook.com/groups/407080325992943/ In discussion with the...

Intelligent Yoga – Davy reviews Peter Blackaby’s new book

Peter Blackaby is a highly respected UK yoga teacher based here in Brighton – in fact his lovely Unit 4 studio is just 200 yards from where we live, and we use it regularly as the venue for our Brighton yoga workshops. Coming from the Ashtanga tradition, it was quite...

Teaching yoga to the over-50s – KempTown Rag article

The KempTown Rag recently featured a yoga class for the over 50s that I taught. My students were all ages between 50 and 93; some were fit and some not so fit, and we had lots of fun relaxing and stretching either on a yoga mat, or in a chair....