Janine Murphy

I love this Leonard Cohen lyric so much. This week when I came across it, I had such a visceral response. It got me thinking about how much we lose when we get stuck in perfection. How much opportunity for growth and sharing and experience and life and joy. It 's sad really that we give up so much unwittingly because we are scared we might fail.  But it also occurred to me that in yoga when we think that our aim is trying for a perfect pose we lose the very essence of yoga. Instead of being...

I've been in a world of feeling over the weekend at the Yoga Intensive with my teacher in Melbourne. We worked a lot on integrating the arms and shoulders back into the spine, we investigated feelings like cohesion and adhesion in the postures and we did ALOT of backbends! There's a misperception that yoga is all about feeling good and that you should look good doing it. The truth is yoga helps us to feel better and by that I mean it opens us up to explore feeling in the body, to get...

What are your priorities in life? What are the things that are most important to you? Or asked another way, what do you value most in...