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Relationships - Part 1
Aptly, it seems, the last term’s Thursday classes was designed around relationships, and some partner work, not realising that in the...
joannafiakkas
Feb 273 min read
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Embodied Chanting: Mudras & Mantra
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu (लोकः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु) is a beautiful and powerful mantra. This practice uses that mantra and...
Simon Hannaford
Jan 312 min read
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Let's Begin Again
Most of us are conditioned to think that come January we magically should have the ability to begin anew, to begin again. It is a new...
joannafiakkas
Dec 31, 20242 min read
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Contentment – Part II
As we move closer towards the Christmas period, this idea of contentment might be growing stronger in our consciousness, either because...
joannafiakkas
Nov 28, 20244 min read
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Contentment - Part I
I have heard it many times, and I have probably written about it here once or twice before, that contentment and true happiness is what...
joannafiakkas
Oct 30, 20243 min read
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Change of Season
“Everything changes but not without a reason” Gertrude Stein (1939) Picasso The only consistent element in our lives is Change Looking at...
Simon Hannaford
Sep 1, 20242 min read
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Keep your practice going
Find a nice outdoor space (we are so lucky in Kent as there are plenty) and go through sun salutations...even just one round Sit down on...
joannafiakkas
Jun 30, 20241 min read
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Doing and Being
I’ve come to realise, equate, ‘doing’ and ‘being’ with ‘action’ and ‘inaction’ in the way that it is spoken in the Gita, but also more...
joannafiakkas
May 30, 20244 min read
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Spring Equinox
Spring Equinox and the Magnolia outside is in full bloom. Within days, in a blink of an eye the plum tree has followed suit. Nature in...
joannafiakkas
Mar 23, 20243 min read
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Self-Love and Yoga Therapy
I started this post with the intention of writing about self-love and self-care. It wasn’t flowing, interestingly not because there...
joannafiakkas
Feb 1, 20243 min read
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A new Year and a new Beginning
I take it as a good omen that this year, and this new month begins with a new week. It feels like a good start. I feel the excitement of...
joannafiakkas
Dec 26, 20231 min read
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The Precipice of Surrender
Beginnings always feel the hardest to me, the moments just before, sometimes feel excrutiating, or somewhow stuck. Even starting this...
joannafiakkas
Nov 30, 20233 min read
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Shapes & Forms - reflections from retreat
One of the instructions or pointings during the meditation practice was to stay in being and awareness and not take “form”, stay...
joannafiakkas
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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Autumn Equinox
Time brings us at the point of balance of the Autumn Equinox – one would say the Middle way. I wonder whether these points of energetic...
joannafiakkas
Sep 29, 20232 min read
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Self-Care - Part 2
Our minds and our ability to align with our true self is quite remarkable really. I was thinking that it would be good to review and...
joannafiakkas
Sep 3, 20233 min read
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Self care – how good are we at looking after ourselves?
I don’t know about you but I definitely wax and wane. Perhaps, over the years, I have become slightly better at it, or at least in some...
joannafiakkas
Jul 31, 20234 min read
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Pancha Kosha - the 5 layers of Ourselves
Often we hear that we are not our bodies, we are not our breath, our thoughts, our feelings. But what and who are we? Sometimes such...
joannafiakkas
May 31, 20235 min read
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New Beginnings
Perhaps it is the recent new moon and solar eclipse, nature swinging into Spring slowly, or perhaps watching the seeds I planted some...
joannafiakkas
May 2, 20234 min read
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To Act or not to Act
I believe a lot of our life is about making decisions of whether to act or not to act and often there can be a tension between action and...
joannafiakkas
Mar 29, 20235 min read
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The Practice of setting daily intentions
It is a wonder sometimes how we survive difficult experiences and life events. Have you ever shared events from your life to others and...
joannafiakkas
Mar 3, 20234 min read
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