My grandmother has been with me a lot lately. Though she passed away many years ago, I am constantly reminded of her at the moment. She taught me to read when I was very small; I think (though I could be exaggerating!) that I could read when I was four years old. She...
Here is a curiosity which I know is not very yoga-centric, but which might be interesting for any of you who like the series Game of Thrones (a lot of people) and would like to visit the yoga studio for a workshop or training. If you look at the map of Westeros above...
Irish “Buddha” figure; about 800 AD I have noticed a lot of articles in the online media recently about “cultural appropriation” with many good, responsible teachers and students apologising because they are concerned that they are pirating Indian...
Celtic School of Yoga Teacher Training 2019 I just wanted to let you know about our second teacher training year which is coming up beginning in February 2019. I can highly recommend this course to anybody who wishes to teach yoga or just deepen their practice of yoga...
Songbirds One of my abiding memories of a deep, nourishing retreat in 2015 on the island of Inishboffin (the island of BoVinda) is of a learned friend telling me about new research she had found which showed that if musicians spent a certain amount of time playing or...
I know I have not been great at keeping this site up to date. But today is the day of Brigid, the Celtic Goddess of fertility and springtime and all things new-born or re-born, and so, as the poet said “after Brigid’s day I will raise the sail of my...
