This week in sangha, we continued discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verses 13-25. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.

This week in sangha, we continued discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verses 1-12. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.

This new moon in Aquarius carries the familiar invitation to begin again, but not by pushing forward. Aquarius does not ask for urgency. It asks for perspective.

Maha Shivaratri is a significant date in the yogic and Hindu calendar, observed once a year, usually in late winter. The name translates as the Great Night of Shiva. Unlike many festivals, it is not marked by outward celebration or festivity, but by quietness, reflection, and simplicity. Traditionally, it is a night dedicated to stillness, meditation, and conscious awareness rather than activity or achievement.

Self-love is often spoken about as an idea, a concept, or a goal to reach. But in lived experience, it is something far simpler and far more demanding than that. Self-love is a relationship. It is the longest and most intimate relationship you will ever have. It is with you every day, through everything. There is no stepping away from it, no pause button, no clean slate on a Monday morning. Like any relationship, it is shaped by how you listen, how present you are...

This week in sangha, we continued discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss. Please refer to https://www.sjholisticyoga.co.uk/post/what-is-the-bhagavad-gita if you need a grounding in what The Bhagavad Gita is.

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In yoga philosophy, the body is shaped and sustained by Prana – a life force that can be described as intelligent energy. Prana expresses itself through two intertwined qualities: shiva-prana, the guiding intelligence, and shakti-prana, the animating power.

This week in sangha, we started our new book: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss. Please refer to https://www.sjholisticyoga.co.uk/post/what-is-the-bhagavad-gita if you need a grounding in what The Bhagavad Gita is.

The Bhagavad Gita is an ancient Indian text, yet it speaks to very ordinary human experiences. At its heart, the Gita is a conversation. A human being is facing a situation that feels impossible, and he doesn’t know how to act without betraying himself. He turns to a trusted guide and asks, quite simply, “What am I supposed to do?” That question is the doorway into the whole book.

The water element shapes this month of practice. Not as something to master or direct, but as something to listen to. Water doesn’t force change. It adapts, yields, and finds its way through what already exists. After the stillness and weight of earth, February offers a gentle thaw - a softening of edges, a return to sensation, and a renewed relationship with feeling.

February’s full moon arrives at a liminal moment. Winter is still very much here, and yet something has begun to shift. The days are lengthening, almost imperceptibly. The soil is no longer entirely dormant. Snowdrops push their way through cold ground, not because conditions are perfect, but because the time has come.

At the heart of Imbolc stands Brigid – luminous, many-layered, impossible to pin down to a single role or meaning. She is a goddess of thresholds and beginnings, of hearth and forge, poetry and prayer. She belongs as much to the home as to the wild places. There are more stories about Brigid than I could write in a day. And at Imbolc, she walks close.

Motherhood is so often spoken about in terms of love, devotion, and sacrifice. And all of that is true. But it is also incomplete. Because motherhood is not only tenderness. It is endurance. It is vigilance. It is the long, quiet work of holding; physically, emotionally, invisibly - and often without pause or witness. Mothers carry a lot. In their hearts, hands and shoulders. They carry worry and responsibility, mental lists and emotional weather. They carry the unspoken nee

This week in sangha we explored Ishvara Pranidhana, the practice of surrender. Our conversation moved into experiences of flow, connection, and those moments when effort softens and something else seems to carry us. We reflected on how safety, presence, and trust can open unexpected doorways, revealing versions of ourselves that emerge when we let go rather than try harder.

The edges of the day hold quiet power. In this post, I share why small, repeatable morning and evening rituals matter, and introduce two new videos offering gentle practices for beginning and ending the day with more presence and care.

A New Moon always asks us to pause. It is the dark of the lunar cycle, when nothing is visible yet, and everything is possible. A moment before momentum. A breath held in the body before movement begins. When the New Moon arrives in Capricorn, that pause becomes deeply earthy and deliberate. As January's theme is the earth element, I couldn't let this new moon go unmarked.

Svadhyaya is not about perfecting the self. It is about seeing clearly. Learning to recognise when the ego is speaking, when the past is steering the present, and when something deeper and steadier is quietly present beneath it all.

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Svādhyāya is often translated simply as self-study. That can sound cerebral or introspective, as though it belongs primarily to reading, journalling, or time spent alone on or off the mat. But in the lived tradition of yoga, svādhyāya is far less abstract. It isn’t something we do instead of life. It happens inside it.