>>How does this colour your Retreats? I only pick the best of yoga and meditation teachers and try to find teachers who are living the life of yoga, rather than just teaching yoga classes. We have been running these yoga retreats since 1999, and we have over 40 retreats each year, all

>>What is the reality of running a retreat centre? Impossible to describe 😉 Mountains and mountains of work. Swami Nishchalananda has described my own path as that of a karma yogi. Putting in huge amounts of work in order to run the centre, and in so doing… benefitting others by provi

>>Can yoga play a role in mental health I believe that yoga and meditation are the most inspirational practices that I have ever come across. The full range of practices have a huge effect on one’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. I think that it helps ‘ordinary peopl

>>How do you see yoga today? I think that some of today’s yoga classes have deteriorated into mainly fitness classes, or at least primarily a physical focus of the practice, without much reference or even mention that the physical postures are in fact a preparation for meditation. I t

>>Who/what are your yoga influences. As mentioned above, I have huge respect and gratitude towards Shraddhamurti and Chetanmurti who started me off with Satyananda yoga, honouring the age old tradition of yoga that meditation is the cornerstone. And a very big gratitude to Orla Punch

>>You mentioned that it is important to ‘practice yoga on your own’. What do you mean by that? I believe that it is very important to go to yoga classes with a very experienced yoga teacher who has immersed themself in all limbs of yoga for many years, so that they can drop gems of wi

>>What has yoga got to do with meditation? Yoga is over 5,000 years old. 1,000 years ago there were only 6 yoga postures. And each of these was a crossed legged sitting posture. The implications of this is that for the preceding 4 and more thousand years, yoga was all about meditation

>>Describe your yoga journey. In 1978 at the ripe age of 19 one of my lecturers in college spoke about meditation, and I was fascinated. A few weeks later I signed up for a Transcendental Meditation course and I began practicing twice a day from the word go. I found the technique very

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