LinksAnne’s Blogs and BookshopAnne’s Yoga Blog Yoga and Philosophy. Insightful and inspiring words. A new quote (almost) everyday. Pretty Productive Little Garden Blog For news from our garden. For walking, knitting, ecology and everything else. Books I recommend. You can buy them here from Amazon.
Mark’s WebsiteMark, a fellow student of Diane Long and a BWY qualified yoga teacher, has classes in Poole, Corfe Mullen and Moreton, Dorset. Mark also offers one to one tuition.
My teacher Diane LongDiane Long studied with the late Vanda Scaravelli for 23 years. She lives in Italy and travels around the world giving workshops. I have worked with her in England, Scotland and Italy. She regularly comes to Britain so catch a workshop with her if you can.
Krishnamurti Resources"The teachings are important in themselves and interpreters and commentators only distort them. It is advisable to go directly to the source, the teachings themselves, and not through any authority."
An educational charitable trust whose role is “to see that these teachings are kept whole, are not distorted, are not made corrupt. They will not give rise to any sectarian spirit in their activities... nor create any kind of place of worship around the teachings or the person.” A quiet retreat centre where you can go to study Krishnamurti’s teachings. You can stay or just visit for the day. The centre has books, audio-cassettes, videotapes, CD's and DVD's for use by guests. The online repository of the authentic teachings of J. Krishnamurti. You can subscribe to receive an email with the quote of the day. An annual magazine The Link is a literary contribution to the global dialogue around K's teachings and a source of general information on many of the related organizations and their activities.
Articles about Vanda Scaravelli and this way of workingAwakening the Spine by Esther Myers & Kim Echlin This article includes an interview with Vanda. I recommend that you don't take much notice of the piece "Applying Vanda's Ideas in Your Practice" that follows it. The words are not the thing - you interpret them as you are. All you will do is your interpretation of Esther's interpretation of what Vanda was doing and like some sort of Yogic Chinese Whispers it will be a weird distortion. Lesson in Freedom by Emina Cevro Vukovic A Soujourn with Diane Long in Varanasi, India by Anne Crowley What is This Way of Working? By Ed Fellows When Movement Becomes Meditation: The Legacy of Vanda Scaravelli by Nan Wishner Inspired by Vanda Scaravelli by Jane Sill [pdf file]. The Teachings of the Late Vanda Scaravelli; A Workshop with Diane Long by Sharon Steffensen Making Space by Elizabeth Irvine Vanda Scaravelli: Her Legacy (Is it a New Yoga or are we truly returning to our original yoga roots?) by Ingrid Kottler
More Interesting ArticlesShiva and the Druids by Linda Johnsen Rediscovering the link between the Brahmins and the Celts The Myth of Core Stability by Eyal Lederman This article re-examines the original findings and the principles of core stability and how well they fare within the wider knowledge of motor control, prevention of injury and rehabilitation of neuromuscular and musculoskeletal systems following injury. Do Back Exercises Work? By Peta Bee This article examines whether the effects of core-stability training are as beneficial as we have been led to believe. This article, which appeared in Yoga Journal in 1977, presents yoga as an evolutionary process and introduces the Yoga of Mind as a powerful approach to self-exploration. Mental yoga reveals the mind’s nature and its filters, and is an important part of physical yoga practice. Read this article if you’re trying to get your head around Jnana Yoga! Yoga as Self-Transformation by Joel Kramer This article, from Yoga Journal in 1980, explores yoga’s use as a psychophysical tool to confront our limits and transcend them thus bringing about transformation.
Other WebsitesAikido training in Corfe Mullen under the direction of Sensei Mark Allcock. Wellsprings Aikido is part of the Takemusu Iwama Aikido Europe family. My friend Richard Small is a Tai chi teacher in North Devon. Visit this website for details of Richard’s classes and to read his stories and other articles. Tony Sargeant is head of Takemusu Iwama Aikido Europe. It was Tony who introduced me to Yoga when I attended an uchideshi at his dojo in Orwell, Cambs. Tony now lives in Kefalonia where he runs the Koriana Centre for mind and body management. Ian and Tabitha Evans’ website is a resource for yoga and sudoku. On their web links page they list websites providing freely useable content. The Lunar Wheel on the yogashala wall is much loved. It is produced each year by Bird and Bee
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