Yoga with Erling
Inspired Yoga with Erling
Dog Breath, a mindfulness practise that’s quick & simple.
This is a quick & simple mindfulness practice that I’m calling dog breath because I have this photo of Honey, my dog, and I’m sure she’s meditating in it.
Set the timer on your phone for 8 minutes, read this first and then start
Walk from Shanklin to Ventnor over the Downs taking in the beautiful south east corner of the Island.
The path down to the old Ventnor railway station is one of the steepest on the island, so this part is a short but strenuous walk. Mostly on grassy paths. No stiles but some kissing gates.
It Can be slippery in wet weather and muddy in winter so care is needed.
The exposed downs can be very windy. Dogs are welcome, but please keep on a lead around wildlife and livestock, and take any mess home with you. This walk is brilliant for views all over the Island particularly from the top of Shanklin Downs over East Wight and across the Solent to Portsmouth and also towards the West with glimpses of Freshwater in the distance. As you walk along side the Radar station you get a sense of the height you’re at, with views over Ventnor and the Sea.
A walk from Shanklin to Ventnor is enriching. The first part is a bit of an uphill beast, but once you leave the town behind, the views and the natural environment of the landslip make it worth the effort.
Some up and down hills, with steep areas, uneven paths and rickety steps.
There’s a couple of cream tea opportunities on the way, the oldest church on the Island, and the sea by your side all the way from Bonchurch to the beach, cafes and pubs of Ventnor. The No. 3 bus runs every half an hour back to Shanklin, but do check timetables.
[Read more…] about Walk from Shanklin to Ventnor around the coast.John Keats is strongly linked to the Isle of Wight, Islanders are proud of their Islands artist heritage.
John Keats was an English Romantic poet who died at the age of twenty five. During his short career he published fifty four poems, ‘in three slim volumes and a few magazines’. Having only become a poet in the last six years of his short life retrospectively he has become one of the best loved and often studied English poets. He stayed on the Isle of Wight during 1817-1819.
During that time, he resided in two houses, one in Castle Road in Carisbrooke and the other Eglantine Cottage in Shanklin.
Continue ReadingKrishnamurti, Duality Creates Conflict.
Today’s meditation from Krishnamurti, The Book of Life, is from the section on Energy.
Conflict of any kind —-physically, psychologically, intellectually—–is a waste of energy. Please , it is extraordinarily difficult to understand and be free of this because most of us are brought up to struggle, to make an effort. When we are at school, that is the first thing we are taught—to make an effort. And that struggle, that effort is carried throughout life—that is, to be good, you must struggle, you must fight evil, you must resist, control. So educationally, sociologically, religiously, human beings are taught to struggle. You are told that to find God, you must work, discipline, do practice, twist and torture your soul, your mind, your body, deny, suppress; that you must not look; that you must fight, fight, fight at that so-called spiritual level—which is not the spiritual level at all. Then, socially each one is out for himself, for his family.
What is Scaravelli? If you’ve never heard of Scaravelli-inspired yoga before, then you should read this article first. Then you can go back and read the rest of the articles in this series.
Scaravelli Inspired Yoga is a form of yoga practice that respects the “revolutionary” understanding of yoga shared by Vanda Scaravelli during her later years and through her book “Awakening the Spine.”
