Finally, back in Blighty, The Yoga Show is the this coming weekend, October 13th, 14th and 15th. I've got tickets just for the weekend and I've paid for a workshop with David Sye and a menopause thing which is the last workshop on Sunday.

OK! Finally! The Kapsali Yoga Retreat announcement. I have my tickets! As I always say, come with me to a place where the soul can breathe! Take a look at pictures and testimonials from previous years. Our day will be a yoga sandwich, early morning and evening yoga and the filling will be lots of lovely things to do: workshops, saunas and treatments, walks… If you want to come with a non-yogi friend or partner (like me! I’m the carer of a beautiful 91-year-old) they can do the stretchy, meditative evening class and the excursions.

Well! I was listening to an interview with Canadian Physician Dr Peter Attia and I bought his book immediately. The interview is here, on Virgin Radio. Wind forward to 02:50:30. Read on for some key points:

Since the workshop with Judith Hanson Lasater, ‘Letting Go: The Heart of Yoga Practice’, there’s a question she asked that has been on my mind. I think it’s a really useful question:

“What is the one repetitive thought that once you let go of it would make the biggest difference in your life? It's there in the background like a bad song”. 

Recently I attended a workshop by Judith Hanson Lasater called ‘Letting Go: The Heart of Yoga Practice’. She said: ‘The entire history and teaching of yoga is letting go. It's not acquiring poses.  It's about recognising what is it that we are letting go? Specifically…? The ego's view of reality.

I’m off to a talk this afternoon (Saturday 13th May, 4pm) called ‘The Power of Mindfulness and Ethical Living, A discourse by Ajahn Sundarā’. (Ajahn means teacher). Ajahn Sundarā is the most senior nun at the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in Hemel Hempstead.

Buddhists are celebrating ‘Vesak’ today. The full moon in May is when Buddhists celebrate the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death. Apparently these events all happened under a May full moon. It’s the Buddhist Christmas and Easter in one.

Loads of notice for this… The Om Yoga Show London is on in October, 13th, 14th & 15th. Yes, I know it’s ages and ages and ages away. I haven’t been since 2019 so I’m absolutely starved of the show.

I mentioned this book last week, Keeping The Breath In Mind by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo and I have a second passage to give you this week. It’s a bit long so I’ve edited it. (The full chapter is attached, if you’re interested in more) Use the instruction after having established a breathing practice; a stable and comfortable inhalation and exhalation, a focused mind. This will also help with the focus: 

I found a gorgeous book called Keeping The Breath In Mind by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. I often wonder if I were a yoga teacher trainer, what would my booklist be. I think this might be on it.

Take a look. I’ve copied a little chunk