Brahmacharya - right use of energy, often translated as non-excess or moderation.

Our weekly meditation session focus was on cultivating an inner resource of calm, ease and a sense of ‘everything is okay’, in this moment, and the ability to be with what is.

Not stealing, but rather being grateful with what you have and generous in your giving to others.

⁣’What unhelpful thought or thought pattern have I been assuming or accepting to be true? Can I turn it around? Considering for a moment its opposite.'⁣

Who in my life do I need to seek to understand, and consider how to be a little kinder? Acknowledging they have a story, a struggle, and suffer, just like I do.

No hand positions required… and I recommend you start with bite size pieces, or ‘spot meditations’.

Accepting ourselves and all the different parts of us is much more helpful than pushing away or denying the parts we don’t like. To live with inner harmony involves accepting our whole selves with compassion and kindness.

I have always had a blessed and privileged life and yet it was hard. Hard because of all the pressures and expectations I put on myself, the feelings of not ever being good enough

Patience (noun): the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.

Did you set a new year’s resolution? Did it come from a place of already being good enough just the way you are? From your heart’s deepest desire for you?

Did you know movement is only one aspect of yoga?  In Yoga Nidra you sit or lay down still, and comfortable for the practice.

Is 2019 the year you meditate? Or be more mindful? It’s a new year, and time for setting goals and resolutions. Why not start today?

 ‘Each and every moment of existence, no matter how stressful or how fleeting, contains the potential for spaciousness.’ Anne Bogart.

Here’s my favourite way to set goals…..

‘May you be happy, may you be well, may you live with ease’