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My Yoga Journal: Catastrophising – (Just eat the cheese!)

The first time I heard this term I was sitting in my GP’s office having my anti-anxiety medication script re-filled. Cool as a cucumber, she looked at me and said “Anita, have you been catastrophising...

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Losing My Way

I have been struggling recently to stay the course.  Overall, I have managed to keep myself Cool, Calm & Collected. Apart from a school holiday disruption I have maintained my yoga and meditation...

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If you ever feel dumb…..

I saw this on an office wall today and it really made me laugh and reflect on some of the hilarious ‘dumb’ things I have done over the years.  I laugh at myself all the time.  Many people wouldn’t...

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My Yoga Journal – Letting go of my FOMO

At the beginning of the year I deactivated my personal Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest accounts just to see what would happen. The universe tends to whisper things to me like “could you be...

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Is there such a thing as Karmic Irony?

‘O’ Oprah’s Magazine – February 2014 I was once taught that life deals its cards in mysterious ways. Sometimes you are dealt an ACE and sometimes you are dealt a JOKER. Well since I have been following...

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Why Am I Here? Pt.1

As a yoga teacher, I was privileged to study at the feet of the master, Shanti Gowans. One of the very first assignments I received from her was simply entitled ‘The Path to Self’. It had to be so many...

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Belonging…

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people.  We are biologically, cognitively, physically and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are...

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Not ready yet…

It’s Not the Years in Your Life That Count. It’s the Life in Your Years. (Who knows you wrote this, everyone is claiming it!)   A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me a story that I have … Continue...

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The boy in the bucket

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. — Dr. Seuss Two years ago,  I was visiting one of the major historical sites in India in the state of Karnataka. Making my way to...

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Insight Timer…

“Let Go”! Imagine if the whole world meditated? What a different planet it would be! However, globally, we know there are many who are meditating at this moment and at any given moment and who bring a...

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Most Beautiful

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. Proverb I am the greatest believer in the fact that if you want to feel beautiful, then you need to...

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Purpose…

“Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight,...

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Let Go…

This precious moment… In the words of the late, renowned author Dr. Wayne Dyer: “There’s an irony to this habit of letting your mind drift to other times and other places. You can only drift off in the...

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Courage…

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Faulkner Whether you are feeling weak or courageous today, remember, that there is very little difference...

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Being

  When you are here, You are there…..   When you are there You are here… In fact, at most times you are everywhere but here! And yet ‘here’, the ‘now’ is the only moment we truly know. The only moment...

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Pause

  PAUSE…. What is a pause? A pause is when something ceases just for an instant or two…. Life’s intermission, a stillness between two moments… When things are calm, quiet, floating, an instant in which...

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