Do it now
Have a great idea? Or an important project that you should be working upon? Yet, you find yourself planning a month long vacation, taking care of your friend’s problems, drinking a cup of tea or just cleaning the cupboard. In …
Thoughts
Thought of the week
Yoga in Action
Why is it that we practice Yoga? Is it merely for our own benefit: for our health, our mind, and our spiritual upliftment? Or does Yoga have a greater role to play in our society? The story of Arjuna Perhaps …
Don’t let fears control you
Why do we do what we do? More often than not, it is because we are scared. When I was young, my parents and my teachers made a big deal out of the importance of studying. “If you don’t study …
Spontaneity vs Discipline
Should we do things spontaneously? Is discipline an antonym of spontaneity? In a recent discussion on our Facebook group about the philosophy of Yoga, one of our students made a very interesting comment while discussing the first sutra of the …
Peace is within us
A chaque fois que nous cherchons à être plus heureux dans nos vies ou trouver la paix, nous Whenever we think about being happier in our lives or finding peace, we tend to look at what we can change about …
Should we control our emotions ?
What is the place of emotions in Yoga? Should we try and control them? Should we experience them to their fullest? Let’s take a look at both cases. Living the emotion to their fullest. When we are happy, this seems …
There are only solutions
What is more important? The problem? Or its solution? The past two weeks, we talked about two of the main causes of human suffering: our tendency to react to life, and the unending quest of becoming. But in truth, the …
Stop reacting to life
Something that Emanuel Macron said right at the beginning of the COVID crisis remains ingrained in my mind. He congratulated his ministers on their excellent reactivity to the crisis. Reactivity. How well they reacted. He seemed to think it is …
Becoming is suffering
We spend our lives trying to become something. The poor wish to become rich. The rich are, of course, never rich enough. And we all want to become more and more beautiful. But above all, we wish to stop suffering. …
