First up, when people say “square your hips”, it's not actually the hips. The movement occurs at the hip joints, but it is the pelvis that actually moves. Just to be clear.

Even if you are not quite where you want to be yet, take a moment to recognise how far you have come because sometimes progress is not about completing the whole class 🐌, it is about knowing when to pause and still having the courage to come back.

Last Monday I was talking about trauma, and how Eastern philosophy has, in different ways, referred to something similar as our innate darkness. Some of it inherited, some projected, some the sum of our life experience. And in everything we do, we reflect it.

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Western wellness sold you "love and light." Real yoga philosophy asks you to face the darkness within — the meaning of Kali and Mahakala, and why yoga's Eastern roots were misunderstood by early Western scholars.

What does Patanjali's opening line "now the discipline of yoga" really mean? A reflection on staying the path through grief, loss, and self-discovery.

A few days ago I wrote about the value of a sun ☀️ salutation and how it can organically transform into something beyond the structure and the breath. And when this happens, it becomes Surya Namaskar.

Before haters hate , I know there is no technical or historical distinction that separates Sun Salutation and Surya Namaskar into two different practices. Sun Salutation ☀️ is the English translation of Surya Namaskar 🌞. So they are the same thing. But as I say in my latest reel, they are the same technically (sort of) but in practise I don't see them as the same thing. At all 😵‍💫 Through my lens 👀, the Sun Salutation stands for the prescribed, externally learned sequen

Patanjali opens the Yoga Sutras with a single word: "now." Here's what that word actually means, and why falling apart might be exactly when yoga begins.

f you have spent any time in yoga classes, you have probably heard a teacher say, “Squeeze your glutes,” (or some mimicking Iyengar say engage your buttocks) just as you prepare for a backbend. Some students feel immediate relief and stability by squeezing. Others find the cue confusing, restrictive, or even counterproductive. Online discussions and teacher trainings often present strong opinions on both sides. Is glute engagement in BACKBEND helpful, harmful, or somewhere in

The following is extracted from a book I will probably never finish. I was going to call it Yoga is Dead. As in, it must be reborn without the contamination of man. Although some people argue that The Grumpy Yogi's Guide to Enlightenment works too 🤔

But when you look a little further into the stretch and see it from a more scientific perspective 🔭, it completely changes how your brain processes what you are doing 🧠. This is called adopting a neurophysiological or somatosensory perspective on stretching. Big words I know.

Flow yoga gets a bad reputation, some of it deserved. But mapped against the psychological flow state, discovered by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the name starts to make a lot more sense.

The goal in 2026 shouldn't be the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to discriminate between truth and fiction. Namaskar Zahir

Before Devi could ask Shiva her question, she had to earn it through the simplest poses, repeated over and over. What her story reveals about basics, repetition, and why "advanced" isn't the goal.