Archive for June, 2009

Posted on our facebook site by Simon Borg-Olivier on June 29, 2009 at 11:12am

Thanks to Marianne & @sweatybettypr for all their great skill in organising us to get on the channel 7 Sunrise program this morning – great blog on this can be seen on how our session came out at www.sweatybettypr.com/blog/. Thanks also to Eric Wolrath and his fantastic shakti mat – i love my shakti mat – every day it puts my back and neck from morning stiffness to daytime bliss’

Posted on our facebook site by Simon Borg-Olivier on June 30, 2009 at 12:59pm

Thanks to the students and teachers of YogaSynergy who came with me to perform on the Channel 7 Sunrise program who’s team (including Mel and David and Sally) welcomed us so warmly. You can see the clip if you click on the video labelled ‘Benefits of Yoga’ at http://tinyurl.com/YogaSynergySunriseCh7 . It was a great morning 15 of us practiced the YogaSynergy Fire Sequence in freezing cold Martin place at Sunrise for Sunrise! Then I spoke on the benefits of Yoga and how the amazing Shakti Mat (the modern version of the Indian bed of nails) can be used as a tool to enhance your yoga.

The following article was written by John McWhorter in 2007 after he interviewed a number of Australia’s leading Yoga authorities on the relationship between yoga and fasting.

John interviewed me after I had just completed a 35 day juice fast around the time of the birth of my son in 2007. Earlier this year I completed a 56 day juice fast. I cannot emphasise enough the value of a properly performed fast or modified fast to your mental and physical health as well as to your yoga practice. However, it is also important to state that you should not attempt any sort of fast unless you have been properly instructed by a respected authority on yoga, physiology, diet and fasting. Any sort of diet especially a fasting diet, including a diet of just fruit and vegetables is potentially dangerous unless it is balanced with a correct breathing practice, which ideally involves a relatively advanced practice of pranayama (breath control) and meditation where the total amount of breathing (minute ventilation) is reduced. We will be presenting more on fasting and diet at a later date. In the mean time a whole chapter of yogic nutrition and the relationship to breathing is in our book ‘Applied Anatomy and Physiology of Yoga’, which is available for purchase as a downloadable pdf file (2009 edition) or as a hardcopy book (2007 version) at www.anatomy.yogasynergy.com .

John McWorter is a regular practitioner of YogaSynergy. He is also a yoga teacher and an accomplished writer. Thank you John for letting us publish your article. It is our great pleasure to present it on the YogaSynergy website. You can read the article by clicking HERE.