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      I was doing my own yoga practice from a book when pregnant with Persia’s mum, Gretchen. Gretchen lived in Noosa when pregnant with Persia and went to pre-natal yoga classes with Sue Scott. Persia is now an ardent practitioner of backbends, cartwheels, handstands and more, moving all the time, flipping around having fun. Our mothers day lunch, 4 generations, my mother & father, me & my sister & brother,  Gretchen & her sisters, Persia and Gem, her […]

Supta Baddha Konasana with strap around hips buckle above pubic bone.  This variation to hold head of the femur into the hip socket.   Vrksasana preparation, with focus as above holding head of femur into socket ‘increase the crease’.   Supta Padangustasana 11, same focus on hip.   Anatasana prep as with Vrksasana prep, continuing the focus on holding at the head of the legs.     Working with a chair, with lengthways bolster support, opening the sides of the […]

India December 2014. I’ve travelled to celebrations at RMIYI since Guruji’s 80th birthday in 1989. That was my first trip to India and I loved the country, ‘the motherland’ some call it, there’s a depth of spirit in India that leaves me satisfied. This trip had the feeling of farewell about it. Guruji wasn’t there, he had died the previous August and people were still in mourning. Yet it was the biggest yoga gathering I had ever experienced. More than […]