Resources
Samyama on the Moon
Often misunderstood as something purely symbolic, “moon days” in yoga refer to peak lunar phases. New and full moons are selected as special days of alternative practice, powerful times to increase attention on deep inner seeing. In this reflection, Josh Pryor...
Daily Repetition Cultivates Skill Beyond Thought
Skill Beyond Thought is Cultivated Daily In the half-light of early morning, practitioners roll out their mats in the same spot they occupied yesterday, and the day before, and countless days stretching back through months and years. They move through the same...
A Fresh Look at Ignorance
The Indian wisdom traditions, particularly Yoga and Vedanta, explain that avidyā is the ultimate error, the root of all mistakes. The word itself translates as: absence of The Knowledge. Excuse me... “The Knowledge”? The Knowledge is simply: I am the unified field...
Perfection of the Body
You are meant to develop the body over your entire life, becoming more fit and agile every year until at least age 101. After that, you may exit the body quietly whenever you want. Ashtanga Yoga is the best all-round system of fitness. Yes, it provides decades of...
The Price of Uplift
There is a price to pay for continued uplift: simply a concerted and strident focus on the positive. As uplift continues, the negative is still known to you. But you must no longer indulge it for cheap thrills. You must choose the higher enjoyment. Casual cynicism is...
Telepathy Amongst Friends
Rosemary Brown had marked spiritual experiences from an early age. Later, as a widow with children, she found herself forced to rest at home following a workplace accident. To pass the time, Rosemary sat at the piano and found her hands guided to play unknown music....
My body knows what to do – a bicycle anecdote
I got on my pushy today for the first time in 9 months (it’s been raining a lot this year!) Rare in my life to be sans-bicycle for so long. Anyway, I took it out of the garage and oiled the chain and checked the brakes worked. You’ve got to do that when you live by...
Materialism is a death cult
I know that I am having an experience. That is the thing I am most sure of, that is the primary knowledge that I have. I am having an experience. I do not know if I am dreaming, and I do not know that waking experience is more real that dreaming experience. It seems...
Yoga teacher Josh Pryor releases new book
(First published Sept 20th 2021 in the Newcastle Herald) In the Himalayas, Newcastle yoga teacher Josh Pryor found a new way to communicate about yoga. "During my years practicing physical yoga, I had been studying Sanskrit texts from Indian libraries that had...