Writing on practice, philosophy and the inner life
Sometimes we become very good at managing a reaction without ever asking why the same reaction keeps returning. We learn how to calm ourselves after an argument. We distract ourselves…
There is a strange thing about self-awareness. We can understand ourselves incredibly well and still find ourselves doing the very thing we said we wanted to change. Take conflict, for…
You can know exactly why you react a certain way and still find yourself reacting that way. You understand why criticism makes you defensive, yet the defensiveness appears before you…
How Samskara and Emotional Learning Shape Behaviour Samskara and emotional learning can help us understand why certain emotional reactions and behavioural patterns continue to repeat A child makes a mistake…
This Saturday is International Yoga Day. There will be photographs. There will be headstands on beaches. There will be matching outfits and choreographed flows. Some of it will be beautiful….
The body remembers what the mind forgets: somatic intelligence and emotional patterns A woman came to see me last year. She was articulate, accomplished, in her early forties. She had…