Articles by YTT members

YTT Annual Financial Report
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It’s been a very exciting first year, and very much a matter of getting things set up. My intention with the financial report is not to bore you with detail, but to give you a good idea of where your money is going, and hopefully assure you that we ...

Yoga Conference
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General impressions
There were apparently around 60 people signed up and in the morning the room was pretty full; in the afternoon it looked emptier. The audience appeared to be quite mixed - yoga teachers, academics, health professionals ...

Duality and Non-duality
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I came to the realisation a while back that it is fundamentally impossible to separate duality from non-duality in everyday life. They both need each other to exist. Hopefully that can help you remove your experience from the academic philosophical ...

Practising yoga is like practising the guitar
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"I can't do yoga." As a yoga teacher, I hear people say this a lot. Or "I can't meditate, I tried it once and I can't do it." I find this sentence increasingly bizarre. (Of course, it's partly based in a misconception of what meditation ...

Yoga is non-prescriptive
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Based on someone's description of what they are experiencing, a library of Yoga postures in our mind can't be used like a pharmacy, from which we can take a posture that we think will help, and then prescribe it. This is not Yoga.

I've noticed ...

Yoga class
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There’s a weird thing that happens when I teach yoga. I teach in a very verbal way. Demonstration is not necessarily the most important thing as I try to avoid suggesting that my students imitate the shape my body makes. All bodies are built differently, ...