Teaching mental wellbeing from birth through to adulthood
This year the World Yoga Festival will be focusing on our specialist family area, where the focus is yoga and other wellbeing activities specifically designed for babies, children, and teens. At a time when nationwide services are failing to fund key areas that can support mothers, and prevent mental distress amongst children and students, we are noticing how stress and mental ill health have taken their toll on our country’s future generation. With an aim at preventative mea
The Yoga of Choice - Preyas and Shreyas - Creating Meaning
In the popular magazine Psychology Today Dr. Gordon Livingston speaks of the sense of meaninglessness that is overwhelming so many people in our modern, urban societies. There is no meaning, he points out, to be found in the equation of work and consumption or, as the poet Wordsworth put it, “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers”. Ancient Yoga offers an interesting perspective on this that resonates with the modern experience. In 1942 the great neurologist and psychi
What I talk about when I talk about Yoga
“For every complex question, there is a simple answer… and it is wrong.” H.L. Mencken Today, technology has made many things simpler, but, to access the complexity of our inner beings, the art and science of Yoga has yet to be surpassed. Close to a billion people are practicing it all over the planet to not only overcome the travails of life but transcend and transform the fabric of their lives into a richer material. It is that rich substrate which is sought after by its cor
