*A tantric exploration of awareness, presence and the living moment * We spend much of our lives inside the movement of the mind. Thinking, planning, remembering, anticipating, making sense of what has happened and imagining what might come next. Even […]

Mental Health Awareness Week always feels like an important invitation to pause and reflect on how we are truly doing beneath the surface of our busy lives. So often, many people think of yoga as simply movement or flexibility but […]

The Subtle Weight of Holding On There is a particular kind of tension that can move quietly beneath our lives. Not always obvious, not always named but felt in the body as a subtle holding. A leaning forward. A sense […]

Beneath the Veil of Form We’ve spent these past months exploring the gunas – those subtle qualities of prakriti (nature/matter) that colour the field of our experience. Tamas, rajas, sattva… the heaviness that anchors, the movement that propels, the luminosity […]

If tamas is the sacred weight of descent and rajas the restless fire of becoming, then sattva is what becomes visible when weight and fire find balance. It is the quality of luminosity, harmony, and intelligibility – the clear seeing […]

If tamas is the weight of the earth, rajas is the fire that refuses to stay contained. Where tamas grounds and stills, rajas ignites and agitates. It is the spark that leaps, the flame that spreads, the heat that drives […]

Yoga is often presented as a journey toward clarity — toward light, awakening, balance. And yet, the journey itself unfolds within the constant dance of three qualities that shape every moment of our experience: the gunas. sattva, rajas, and tamas […]

Abhinivesha is perhaps the most elusive of the kleshas—and the most deeply rooted. Patanjali describes it as the fear of death, but this isn’t just about physical mortality. It’s the tenacious grip we have on life-as-we-know-it, the instinctual clinging to […]

Raga is a familiar presence in our lives. It’s that longing for a past joy, the hunger for something just out of reach, the belief that happiness lies in securing and repeating pleasurable experiences. As the third of the kleshas, […]