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Whole Life Yoga Blog

With passion, humour and a spirit of inquiry, James shares emotive and relatable writings on the yoga of the whole human being. These include musings on life from a yogic perspective, articles elucidating practical teachings from the yoga tradition, stories, reflections and more. Explore the practical whole life teachings of yoga in James’ blog and this selection of his articles from the last decade.
Lessons from India – Insight at the Coconut Stand

Lessons from India – Insight at the Coconut Stand

This is one of the things I love in India, the beauty of the people, the authenticity with which people do their work. For example, one time in my early years in Mysore I needed a button sewing on a shirt. I had no needle or thread but I knew there was a tailor around the corner. I took my shirt to him. He looked at me like I was some brutish fool and indicated that I should go up the street. He was a tailor of women’s clothing, and he was not about to desecrate his self-respect by robbing custom from a gents’ tailor.

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Yoga Immersion Q&A

Yoga Immersion Q&A

Q. What brought you into yoga? A. There are many ways that I could answer this and I could write or speak at length, but to get to the heart of it: pain and desire. I was in pain, I’m a wounded...

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Rehab Recipe: Yogic Movement

Rehab Recipe: Yogic Movement

I sometimes say there is no such thing as merely physical yoga practice, or merely intellectual or devotional practice. If it’s yoga then it will be addressing the whole human being. Yogāsana...

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Responsibility and The Invitation

Responsibility and The Invitation

When we try to dominate another, we are at once denying, attacking and suppressing part of ourselves. Brother, sister, you too are Mother Earth.When a human being tries to dominate another, or tries...

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