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What makes a yoga practice yoga? - James Boag, 'The Chai Sessions'
During each online chai session we’ve shared up till now, I’ve always imagined that we were sitting face to face on the sofa in the studio. I was so excited to finally have the opportunity to do just that with James Boag recently and can now share our first ever in-person chai session here with you!
Pop the kettle on, get yourself comfy and come and join us.
Now Yoga Begins - James Boag, 'The Chai Sessions'
Over the years James has been a regular visitor to MCY. I was so desperate for people to hear what he had to share and for them to see the gift in texts like the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras. He's helping us all see the wisdom in these teachings and how we can work with them, not only in our yoga practice on the mat but off the mat too as we go about our daily lives.
Pop the kettle on, get yourself comfy and come and join us.
Yoga philosophy. Why give it time and attention?
There’s more to yoga than the stuff we do on our yoga mats. Understanding yoga philosophy, the ideas and thinking behind yoga, really helps us get the most out of our practice. And if you teach yoga it can really enhance and enrich the messages you’re sharing too.
Looking backwards to move forwards
Last summer I took a whole month out and travelled to Boulder, Colorado to study and practice with legendary yoga teacher Richard Freeman and his wife Mary Taylor at the yoga studio they founded, The Yoga Workshop. It was a 200 hour programme which included practice, teaching methodology, adjusting, philosophical study, chanting, silent meditation, anatomy and cadaver labs! In other words A LOT.
Living Fully
Back in September I had a bit of an issue with my health. It came back up these last couple of weeks before Christmas. Thankfully everything is fine. Again. Like a lot of experiences, this brought into sharp focus that you really never know the minute. And while it’s easy (and very normal) to get caught up in imagining and fearing the worst, the other thing I noticed was occasional, fleeting moments of intense colour and beauty.
Yoga from the Heart
“When we meet something with love we transform it.” One of my first lectures with James Boag was on the 2nd January 2012 in his apartment in Mysore, South India. I’d been practicing at the Shala (Shri K Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute) with Sharath since mid December. Because it was so busy, my start time was really late and so I couldn’t join the philosophy classes there…