Journal
Here you'll find writing on mindfulness, neuroscience, mental health, physical wellbeing, and yoga.
These topics often overlap: attention, behaviour and embodiment are all part of the same ecosystem of experience, and the aim here is to explore those connections in a thoughtful and practical way. Some posts draw from research, others from lived experience and teaching. The intention is to share ideas that are useful, considered, and occasionally a bit different from what is typically said.
April 20, 2012
Is the truth out there? While we may have been drawn into the idea that “the truth is out there” by certain teachings (or X-Files), with […]
February 21, 2012
What’s love got to do with yoga? EVERYTHING :) In the last blog post, I wrote a little about the non-harming side of the first Yama, […]
February 8, 2012
What does your Vinyasa look and feel like? A smooth flowing sequence? A struggle on your mat? A moving meditation? Bits and pieces of each as […]
January 27, 2012
Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can give to another is the wisdom gained from experience, multi-award-winning filmmaker and photographer, […]
December 21, 2011
There is something that I look forward to every year at Christmas. It is not the food, the presents, the fun or even the company for […]
November 30, 2011
The holiday season has kicked off in its usual high voltage style. What will you do to manage the demands of work, family and sometimes ‘impossible’ […]
November 17, 2011
We all face them at some point. Sometimes purposefully (as in the 30 day challenge) and sometimes by circumstance. What we do with them is up […]
November 2, 2011
With endings, come beginnings. With new beginnings, an end must occur. Change is inevitable in life. At Kushala Yoga there have been many exciting endings and […]