For the past 6 or more months, I’ve been having a love-hate relationship with the gym. I’ve written about this regularly, so I won’t recap here – but my bugbear was about teaching group fitness classes. What this fear has morphed into, however, has been an excuse not to go to the gym at all [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 28, 2009
I Do Not Love Your Dog
Something that never ceases to amaze me is the obsession that some of my colleagues in the anthropology, natural resources and yoga worlds have with their dogs. In fact, in some instances, I would go so far to say that some people I know have inappropriate relationships with their dogs.
March 15, 2009
Things to do with Old Yoga Magazines
I subscribe to one Yoga magazine, regularly buy another and occasionally buy two others. After about 5 years of earnest collecting, that adds up to quite a pile of yoga mags. All cluttering up my lounge room … Gathering dust.
I’m doing one of my half-yearly de-clutters. This coincides with us selling the megalith that was [...]
March 13, 2009
Facebook, GFC and Non-Attachment
I have to admit that I’m a bit of a net-addict and geek. I was on MSN and Facebook well before any of my friends, I’m on Twitter, Linked-In, and I use Delicious, (although I find Digg useless) etc etc.
However, just because I’ve signed up to something, doesn’t mean I’m convinced of its utility. It’s [...]
March 8, 2009
After Release, Opening
I had a text message from the gym on Monday. It was a continuation of the ongoing yoga-at-the-gym saga (see this post for the full story). The text message went like this:
Hi Amanda, I’ve spoken to XX about yoga on Thursday night and it’s ok to go ahead. We just need to check on the [...]
March 7, 2009
Marching into March
I am looking forward to the end of the hot weather and the beginning of autumn here. Last week, and into the beginning of this one, it’s been unbearably hot and I’ve been out bush for most of it.
If you can imagine what it’s like camping when the temperature is 39 degrees (that’s more than [...]
March 2, 2009
Location, Location, Location
Anityāśuci-duhkhānātmasu nitya-śuci-sukhātma-khyātir avidyā (Yoga Sutra 2.5)
Ignorance is misperceiving permanence in transience, purity in impurity, pleasure in suffering, an essential self where there is no self (trans. Stoller-Miller, 1998:45).
I’ve again butted my head against position (location) – position in the sense of political or ideological position, which in the context in which I live and work, [...]
