Akram Hot Yoga Studio

I remember being in Morocco on a yoga retreat. There were other yogis there too, and one afternoon I saw a woman on the beach setting up her tripod and camera . She found a suitably spiritual-looking rock, sat in lotus, placed her hands into a mudra (westerners love a mudra ), straightened her posture and arranged her face into the perfect yoga grin. You know the one. She then r...

Non-Attachment / When Love Means Letting Go ❤️

The Meaning of the Naṭarāja / Shiva Statue

The word Zen gets thrown around a lot in yoga, but the word doesn't actually mean what we think it does. It's very similar to the word yoga. Or Joga, as my mum pronounces it. An old subcontinent way of saying it. So a better way to put it, rather than saying we have the meaning of Zen wrong, is that there are two types of Zen. As there is yoga. There is the old meaning of the wo...

I've had a few comments about something I said in my last blog, when I wrote that "you can't be a Buddha in the world of Trumps." ‍