The Weird And The Wonderful: Bali Spirit Festival 2017

I had no idea what to expect from Bali Spirit Festival. I just knew it was a yoga festival held in a beautiful place. I was thrilled to try LOADS of different styles of yoga, including Jivamukti, Kundalini, Embodied Flow, Thai Yoga Massage, Transformational Alignment Based Yoga, Forrest Yoga, Laughter Yoga (HILARIOUS) and Yoga Nidra. …

Yoga Teacher Training: Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow

Before coming to India I had semi-joked that I wanted to become a pretzel. That is, to have bronzed, sun-kissed skin, lightly salted from a dip in the ocean, with limbs that could be contortioned into any pretzel shape. So it wasn't entirely a coincidence that my yoga teacher training happened to be located on …

Ashram Life: Sivananda Ashram, Kerala, India

Auuummmm. Auuummmm. Auuummmm. It's 5:30am and it's still dark. Two hundred and fifty people are silently filing into the open-air hall for morning Satsang. Following suit, I sit down cross legged on the floor. I close my eyes, settle down and try to meditate to the slow hum of the universal mantra "om". I take …