Winter Solstice

A Solstice Meditation for You

Simple Solstice Meditation for You Visoka va Jyotismati – Sutra 1.36 Visoka – blissful va – or jyotismati – the supreme light This month in the Northern Hemisphere is the Winter Solstice (Wednesday 21st December) – the shortest day and longest night of the year. In many ways 2016 has been a tumultuous year around the…

Embracing The Longest Night

Visoka va jyotismati – Sutra 1.36 Today is the Winter Solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year. This year the Solstice also coincides the end of the Mayan calendar (cue a slew of gags about the end of the world – like this one…) I like to think that what this…

How a Panda and a Tortoise helped me to put things in perspective

  December has been quite a contemplative month.  Despite it being a very yin time, it’s felt very eventful internally.  Mixed emotions. Darkness and light.  Among a number of things, during December: –   I got my official teaching certificates, registered with Yoga Alliance and got insured –   I got confirmation of my spondy and scoliosis…