Author Archive | Guy

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Happy new year everyone Hopefully the full moon new year festivities passed without incident! We had very chilled evening and the 2 of us went to the centre early on New Year’s day to practice. We’ve also just completed a massive 3 day overhaul of our living space. The Christmas break The second self practice […]

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Remember me as you shine so brightly

(Title adapted from Ghostlight and the Parliament of Birds, Nick Evans 2009). On Saturday we had a little gathering to bid farewell to Nick Evans who’s been teaching at the centre for the last 3 months. It’s not been his first visit teaching in Brighton and I get the feeling that he’s had a great […]

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Back again

Right now my practice seems to be focused on trying to drop back unassisted. I reread Laura’s great post “feel the fear and do it anyway” and all the comments written back in July 2008. Doug made some really useful comments about the correct vinyasas, and I’m sure Santa will be getting me Lino Miele’s […]

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Last Shavasana

This weekend we visited Hannah’s grandparents for a family birthday. We’d opted to sleep over on a sofa bed. We were both slightly nervous about this as the grandad has a penchant for ancient clocks – some of which chime every 15 minutes and strike on the hour. (You’d be amazed by how much you […]

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Om

A friend sent over this link to a rather funny Youtube video:

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5×5

There’s an astrological catastrophe afoot! I’ve been looking at the lunar calendar and it seems that we’re  slap bang in the middle of 5 days practice times 5 weeks! All the moon days are over weekends. That can’t happen very often! Perhaps it’s a divine opportunity to go deeper into the practice without injury. Lets […]

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