Listening with my Little Toe...
Our senses are so much more powerful than we realise. But far too often they are functioning on 'auto pilot': letting the brain pre-empt sounds, sights and sensations, instead of truly realising their surroundings. Our brains are very good at picking out chunks of sensory information and associating it with another stimuli. This is most obviously seen in reading. It doesn't matter what order the letters of a word are in, as long as the first and last letter are in the correct
YOCO: The similarities between yoga and life coaching
Last week I made a start on my reading list for my yoga training. I’m currently reading a borrowed copy of Pantanjali’s* commentary on the Yoga Sutras, ‘Four Chapters on Freedom’. The copy is 3 years older than me and was printed in India, so it certainly turned a few heads on the tube! (Unfortunately, Pantanjali hasn’t published a kindle edition yet!) My initial reaction was I’ve read this before because whilst the Sanskrit translation can, at times, be quite wordy and compl
