Liz Gill Yoga

http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-spaces/blogs/meditation-or-vacation-which-one-better-your-health

Meditation or vacation: Which one is better for your health? Researchers from University of California and Harvard compare the mental and physical health benefits of both meditation and vacation.

http://www.doyouyoga.com/6-tips-and-tricks-to-help-you-get-into-handstand-82626/

6 Tips and Tricks to Help You Get Into Handstand Spending more time on the mat to help you get into handstand? Try these tips and tricks to help you get more handstand progress in your practice!

Dream job for someone...And you don't have to be in Berlin

http://www.doyouyoga.com/jobs/social-media-guru/

Social Media Guru | DOYOUYOGA.COM Do you have what it takes to be a marketing manager, marketing analyst, content creator, news ju**ie, customer service rep, AND community facilitator? Then you’re the one for us!

Love this programme - yoga for kids in low-income schools. Currently in San Francisco, desperately needed everywhere.

http://www.headstand.org

Headstand is a San Francisco based Non-Profit focused on combating the toxic stresses...

Hello All, I've been teaching pro bono at a Simon Community residential facility (equivalent to rehab) in Dublin city centre but will no longer be available as of July. It's a really rewarding class and the participants - all clean and sober! - are consistently lovely and get great benefit from it. Is there anyone who might be interested in taking it over? I'd appreciate if you could also pass this on to anyone who might be interested. People can reach me at Liz Gill Yoga on Facebook. Thanks!

Forgive the voice-of-god narration but a very moving film about the power of meditation in prison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkxSyv5R1sg

Doing Time Doing Vipassana - Full official version A film by Eilona Ariel & Ayelet Menahemi This is the story of an ancient meditation technique named Vipassana, which shows people how to take control of thei...

The current blog...

http://www.doyouyoga.com/the-challenges-of-transitions-on-and-off-the-yoga-mat-33836/

The Challenges of Transitions (On and Off the Yoga Mat) What happens if we truly listen and breathe to our own bodies? These yoga transitions can teach valuable lessons on and off the yoga mat. Read 'em here!

In praise of doing Nothing:

"So why are we not constantly experiencing serenity, inner silence, bliss, an extraordinary luminosity, the clarity of awareness? Why isn’t that just our modus operandi for everything we do? Cause that’s our birthright, that’s our heritage, we all have it, more than we are our bodies or our minds…or anything outside – family, possessions, reputation, all that - it’s concentric rings, they just fall off even during a lifetime. Your substrate consciousness – that’s a keeper. As long as you’re in samsara, that’s a keeper. Minds, bodies, come and go come and go, but that’s your birth-right, that’s what you’re born with…that’s your home, what nobody can take away from you. They can take away your mind, if you have sufficient brain damage, you lose your mind. Someone kills you, they take away your body…But there’s no gun big enough, no damage severe enough, to enable somebody to take away your substrate consciousness…all the maras in the universe couldn’t take away your substrate consciousness. That’s your heritage, your birthright, that’s really yours if anything’s yours, and it’s pretty nuclear. So why is it that we’re not just experiencing this ongoing flow, this sense of well-being, luminosity, serenity, non-conceptuality? Because it’s obscured, obscured by the five obscurations – the first one being sensual craving for all the bounties of the desire realm. And there’s a lot of them! That’s what keeps business going, that’s why cell phones get better and better. Desires of the desiring. What’s the natural antidote to the attractions of the desire realm? Single-pointed attention. Natural attitude. Still. Not fluctuating, agitated, etc. “Where there is stillness, there is no craving.” Padmasana says, “leaving your body, speech and mind in a state of inactivity is the unsurpassed supreme technique for inserting the energy mind into the central channel.”

--Alan Wallace, Shamata Retreat 2014

I like this article about Chaturanga - it's a challenging pose that is often rushed through, but really important to do properly. I'd encourage students to come to their knees if they have to to maintain alignment, otherwise without upper-body strength it can lead to injury.

http://www.markstephensyoga.com/blog/chataranga-dandasana-endangered-species

Chataranga Dandasana: An Endangered Species | Mark Stephens Yoga Flowing with Chataranga
Chataranga Dandasana (Four-Limbed Staff Pose) is an endangered species, one increasingly lost in the rushed transition from Plank Pose (Phalakasana) to Upward Facing Dog Pose (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana). The result is not only loss of insight arising in the asana itself, bu...

Just back from a glorious weekend of yoga, walking and dangerously delicious home-cooked food. Next retreat in September and "retreat" doesn't mean we can't still have fun!

Just back from the spectacular Inis Mor and a glorious weekend of yoga, walking and dangerously delicious home-cooked food. Next Samadhi Yoga Studios retreat is in September - but don't be afraid of the word 'retreat' - you're still allowed have fun :)

Liz Gill Breda Walsh Elsie-Kate Walsh

Ok this one's controversial!

A Farewell to Bikram Yoga Here is one yoga teacher's take on Bikram - the man and the practice - and why she decided to bid farewell to the Bikram yoga style of asana practice.