yoga for the mind
the Inner Practice
Podcast
The calm underneath the thinking, and the way back to it.
There’s a calm that doesn’t depend on anything going right. It’s always there, just quieter than the thinking, and easy to lose under the noise of a busy mind.
We look at how the mind works and why it makes everything harder than it needs to be, how to work with our emotions instead of being run by them, and how to hear the intuition underneath it all again.
Nothing to fix, nothing to become. The thoughts can carry on, we just stop believing them.
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Sunday scaries: How to stop dreading Monday
Duration: 20 min What's happening on a Sunday afternoon when the week hasn't started yet and your body is already braced for it? Someone mentions the coming week and something closes. The shoulders go tight, or the jaw, or the lower back, and the mind starts listing...
Episode 03: How to stop believing every thought your mind tells you
Duration: 20 min What do you do when everything falls apart and you've got no energy to practice? A few years ago everything around me came crashing down, and so did I. I'd come from a strong physical yoga practice, and when it all fell apart there just wasn't the...
Episode 02: How an emotion actually dissolves
Duration: 13 min If we don’t take the teachings from the yoga mat into our daily lives, what’s the use? We practise in the morning and feel good for an hour or two, and then life hits us and by the afternoon it's gone. In this episode I look at how to keep that...
Episode 01: Why fixing the stuck feeling keeps you stuck
Feeling stuck isn’t a crisis. It’s a niggling feeling that something isn’t quite right, and most of us try to drown it out or make a plan to fix it.