As we mature into a deeper spiritual perspective we take responsibility for our own internal states.

Learning lines and putting on costumes are a regular part of an actor’s life and now a new practice has joined the backstage rituals.

If you can’t make the class, let the teacher come to you.

The complexities of yoga are as myriad as human nature. Nowhere has this been more accurately captured than in the film Fire of Yoga.

When “yoga kills” t-shirts started appearing on the young and toxic, it seemed like a rather ironic joke at the expense of all those icons of purity

This month the renowned author and practitioner Godfrey Devereux guest hosts YOGA’s regular Anatomy of a Pose.

Three years ago I was given an exciting opportunity to teach yoga at a psychiatric hospital in Dudley.

The enthusiasm of all teachers I spoke to has been over whelming.

According to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, ‘Jalandhara bandha, uddiyana bandha and mula bandha are situated in the throat, abdomen and perineum respectively. With the performance of these three bandhas the rechaka (exhalation) and pooraka (inhalation) ceases to function. With this the senses become purified and kevala (enlightenment) takes place.’ (YS 5,6,8) This combination of three bandhas that holds such promise is known as the maha bandha, from the Sanskrit word meaning ‘great’.

We are all familiar with the expression "you are what you eat". We all know that if we put junk food into our bodies, we will probably get ill. Very few people would disagree with this statement. But while we are trying to be healthy, we could be forgetting about a very important part of our bodies – our feet. When was the last time we actually sat down and thought about the health of our feet? Can the same expression ‘you are what you eat’ be applied to your feet or what you wear. Are we really the shoes we wear?