“Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure”.
– yoga wisdom from Rainier Maria Rilke.

New research has revealed just what the party drug “Ecstasy” is doing to users.

There’s an old Italian phrase that can teach us a lot when it comes to experiencing every day life. Il bel far niente, translates to beauty of doing nothing.

“He who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear”.
– From Yoga Isa Upanishad

“All things first originate in the mind. Things and events depend heavily on motivation” – Some yogic wisdom from The Dalai Lama I guess it’s true – I have to think about murdering my neighbours who drink excessively and argue at 3am, before I actually murder them…. Yours, Yoga Genie Chief Bloggist, Yoga Whatever…

Placebos will work even when people know it is a placebo.

“When I started doing asana, the yoga postures, I had a strong feeling of many unnecessary things dropping away – especially tension and inadequacy.” –          A yoga quote from Patricia Sullivan Ah inadequacy… How fortunate that this little gem should leap in to my lap after my previous reflection.  Thank you Patricia. Yours, Yoga Genie […]

Forget expensive cosmetics, sleep is what makes you look attractive.

Goenka is a great teacher. I have studied occasionally at the Vipassna yoga centre in the Blue Mountains. I miss Goenka when I am not doing Vipassna.

Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions.

I was looking for something to show to some curious teenagers who were stitting around our dining table trying to work out what kind of yoga centre they wanted to go to. I guess it gave me cause for thought on my recent bitch about yoga celebritism… there’s nothing like a spontaneous leadership moment to remind you that you are also just another kid in the wilderness…

There is new debate as to what was going on “before” the Big Bang.