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The Yoga Manifesto: How Yoga Helped Me and Why it Needs to Save Itself

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A YOGA teacher, writer and influencer will be visiting a Nairn studio as part of her UK tour on Friday. His first book, Things I would like to do with You, touches on modern relationships from a Buddhist point of view. His second book, It’s Never too Late to Fall in Love with Your Life, is available, here. In 2003 Peter wrote Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom a beautiful meditation on finding our own unique creative process. In The Yoga Manifesto, she investigates how the practice has evolved into a modern billion-dollar industry and asks at what cost. Does yoga in the west shut out people of colour, working-class communities, or those who don’t identify with bendy, slim, able-bodied wellness gurus? From slogans like ‘Namastay in bed’ to pricey bum-sculpting leggings, has this enduring spiritual practice lost its way?

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How he grew up in a catholic upbringing. How he had a mystical experience aged 6. How his parents saw something deep in him from an early age. How he read mystical books from a very young age. How he took psychedelics in his late teens but the integration as a spiritual experience didn’t work. How in his twenties he did the guru trail in India. How he decided to spend his life doing personal sadhana. Why mystical experiences are not spontaneous. Why you should work with hypotheses rather than belief. Why the mystical state is your birth right. How in his forties he developed a relationship with Jesus. How the ego gets in the way of the mystical experience and is known in many traditions with different names. How we need to be in the service of all beings. Why yoga is the most powerful tool for transformation. What the inspiration is that he uses to write his books. How we can all find our life’s purpose. How we can stay connected to nature. What the most important thing is that he has discovered through his practice. ___ About Gregor Maehle Gregor Maehle began his yogic practices 45 years ago. In the mid-1980s he commenced annual travels to India, where he studied with various yogic and tantric masters, traditional Indian sadhus and ascetics. He spent fourteen months in Mysore, and in 1997 was authorised to teach Ashtanga Yoga by K. Pattabhi Jois. Since then he has branched out into researching the anatomical alignment of postures and the higher limbs of yoga.Raw. Vulnerable. Open. Truthful . . . This is a book that will open up the floor for even more honest conversations about the side of yoga we don't often see.' - Angie Tiwari @tiwariyoga Focus on the benefits for the asana shapes. Whether someone is practicing a shape on the ground, a chair or standing, the benefit of the asana should be similar. The goal is not physical attainment or standardization of the shape, but presence and peace of mind. Cue in such a way as to bring students into more presence and peace. 11. End With Dharana

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Most importantly, yoga works – as a tool to benefit our bodies and minds – when we believe that it will work. As we practise, we discover who we are, what’s in our heart of hearts and what’s worth living for. That’s what I’ve found it to do for me over the years. There’s more, but that’s the crux. Since I haven’t always found yoga or indeed life to be straightforward, I’m interested in exploring how we all find our way through both. It’s going to be different for everyone but what I’ve discovered is that most of us need something to believe in. Religion might be one path, career another. Relationships tend to help, and addictions and destructive behaviours (which I know a fair bit about) can keep us going for a while too. Then there’s yoga, which has been many things for me at the same time: a faith, discipline, friend, and an all-encompassing lifestyle, but also something I’ve been at odds with at times before falling in love with it all over again.Peter's book Fingerpainting On The Moon is a roadmap to getting underneath our own creative process. This conversation with Peter Leviit is beautiful and helps us to consider how we can make our way through this precious life with openness. It is one of my favourite conversations and has changed the way I see my own creativity." We were halfway through the first Sun Salutation sequence when the giggles started. I couldn’t help but feel myself almost laughing too because, looking at it from their point of view and given that we had only just met, what we were doing was pretty odd. But I remembered my authority, I was the teacher so had to keep myself together. I did my best to cajole them along, walking between their mats and waving my arms to show them the way, exaggerating my movements the way people do when they don’t speak your language. ‘Breathe out and bend the knee,’ I called out, getting them into Warrior Two pose. ‘Bend the knee,’ I said again when no one responded. ‘The knee is bending, more bending, bending more...’ Everyone’s legs were shaking, but I could see that they were strong so I held them there a while longer.

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