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25.01.2022 If you are interested in this course and feel like it could benefit you, there are still places available.

25.01.2022 The joy of the present moment - how beautiful to be able to share in it. #mindfulness #presentmoment #yogaeverydamnday #yogaeveryday #twins

24.01.2022 Great episode and some really thought provoking concepts.

23.01.2022 Sneaky surprise eggplant growing after I thought the veggie garden done. Nature is a great teacher. Growth.

22.01.2022 So important to remember- making time for rest. A timely reminder

21.01.2022 Starting next week! Book in ASAP

21.01.2022 Beautiful afternoon on foreshore. Such a nice way to end the working week. Getting the feet wet, fresh sea air and space. We ran a group on self care today for work and this is such a big part of mine. Connecting to nature. Movement. Time to reflect. Grateful to have this so close to where I live. Present moment awareness in such a beautiful place.

21.01.2022 Not long now to this workshop offering next weekend. A chance to relax and renew as well as lots of take home strategies you can use to support yourself. Places still available to please contact to book in!

20.01.2022 So looking forward to again sharing this offering at the lovely Redcliffe Yoga and Massage. As the end of year approaches our stress and anxiety can rise so please take this opportunity to learn and explore some yoga that may assist you. Places still available so please book in via their website or contact me if you have any issues. Thank you!!

15.01.2022 My new class starting out in Sandgate this coming Monday :) Look forward to starting yoga close to home and bringing some yoga to my new community. Very excited and feeling very lucky to be able to share yoga with others.

14.01.2022 When you find your mind wandering everywhere and no where, take a deep breath and bring yourself back to the here and now. #mindful #meditation #presentmoment #deepbreath #calm #clear #focused

13.01.2022 Great site offering a range of yoga practices. In these times of conflict, fear and violence know that love and compassion are stronger and will always triumph. Keep your practice full of love and compassion for yourself and others.

12.01.2022 It's not singing, it's not a spiritual practice, with mantra’s and it has nothing to do with a religious ritual. It's the very simple technique of humming. When... we hum we automatically slow down our exhale. It triggers the relaxation response in your nervous system, which triggers the body and mind to calm down. Of course, you can use counting to make the exhalations longer than the inhalations. But what helps best for me is adding sound. With closed lips I like to use the sound ‘hum’ when I exhale; my complete exhalation is the sound 'hummmmmmmmm'. Placing the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth spreads the vibration from the sound all over your skull. Humming is the sound of the humming bird and for us humans it is also a technique that uses the voice to slow down the breath. As simple as it is. See more

11.01.2022 Hung out with some of my girl friends today. While in the back of my head writing essays and guiding the art of self care. We talked about Oprah, #metoo, disp...arity across all the industries, and womens relationships. And men. You know: state of the world. We laughed. We cried. Then I came home and wrote (see last post) our success is collaborative, not competitive (take that, yoga industry). As women, we succeed through solidarity and intersectional work. Helping each other, helps us. I mean this in the most financial, bottom line, growth ways. I mean this in the most tender and emotive, ways. And yet, when it comes to yoga, we go right back to self esteem, body image, trying to brand ourselves and appeal to the most people. Its about class sizes, followers, getting enough certifications that we can please everybody. Route to self loathing and failure, that is. That leads to problemitizing ourselves, trying to fit in rather than make a difference. It leads directly to competition and never being good enough. Things women already struggle with. What are we teaching, then, if not to beat ourselves up? My greatest teaching happens when Im sincere. It allows others to explore sincerity and doesnt project my shit onto a roomful of bodies. Then they can work on their own, shit. Then, we can overcome. Teach heart. Be you. With others.

09.01.2022 Starting a new class at Zen Space. So excited to be teaching here.

09.01.2022 New Yoga book to add to the collection. If only there was more reading time in the day. #parentlife #

08.01.2022 Getting a little help to be a conscious parent. Holding me accountable. Thanks Zephyr #twins #consciousparenting #yogalife

08.01.2022 No one can do yoga. Yoga means union with God. Yoga means eternal happiness, bliss, joy, and unconditional love. Yoga is who you are. It is your natural state.... What we can do are practices that, by revealing to us our resistance to existing in our natural state, may lead us to it. Sharon Gannon Sharon Gannon, co-founder of the Jivamukti method, along with David Life, Rima Rabbath and Jules Febre are featured in Francesco Mastalias upcoming book Yoga: The Secret of Life. We are hosting a master class with Sharon and Dana Trixie Flynn and a book signing on October 29th to celebrate. #teachjivamukti #practicejivamukti See more

08.01.2022 As we approach the new moon, it is a wonderful time to reflect, tune in and set an intention for what we would like to bring forth. Repeat your intention slowly 2 or 3 times feeling your connection to your intention in your whole being. Make time for slowing down and turning in. This might be sitting with the breath for a few minutes noting to yourself "I am breathing in, I am breathing out". Stay with the connection to your body and breath as you move back into your day.

07.01.2022 Today I was asked Has yoga lost its soul in the West? ... Here is an answer I just wrote ... I think that most people teaching modern yoga have good intention...s and some modern yoga does seem to help some people for some time. However, I dont think that what is mostly being taught under the banner of yoga in the modern world today is really yoga, but more a type of exercise system similar to the aerobics of the 1980s. Yoga means union and on a global level it is the recognition that every individual consciousness is related to every other individual consciousness in the same loving way that a mother naturally relates to a newborn baby, with selfless service and loving intent and the way a baby relates to that in terms of feeling safe and loved. If this was happening between all the conscious entities in the world today then I would say that the world is in yoga. But before this can happen on this world scale is must first be achieved on a personal level. Every cell has its own consciousness and I believe that perfect health and yoga in a human body of about 50 trillion cells will manifest when every individual cell treats every other cell like a mother treats a young baby and every individual cell feels like the other cells are treating each individual cell like a young baby. Another way of saying this is that perfect health and yoga comes in the body when there is the circulation of energy and loving information in the body. In scientific terms this is when blood circulates easily through the body without the heart racing and the parasympathetic nervous system (the relaxation and rejuvenation response) is dominating over the sympathetic nervous system (the flight or fight response). However, in modern yoga and most exercise regimes, when the body feels any sense of increased heart rate, increased breathing (or more correctly increased minute ventilation), increased muscular tension or even an increased sense of stretching, then the body tends to be put into a overly dominant sympathetic nervous system state. The subconscious response during this type of situation is for the body to think there is something wrong, that change is needed and that we are not okay at the present moment. At such times the body tends to reduce, or even completely switch off, the functions of the digestive system, immune system and the reproductive system. Your ability to absorb nutrients and eliminate wastes is impaired with reduced digestive function. Your ability to recover from sickness or injury is hampered with reduce immune function. Similarly your cells ability to reproduce and grow appropriately, as well as your hormone function is reduced when your reproductive system is not working at its best. At such times of flight or flight that are stimulated with the increased sympathetic nervous system stimulation that is generated with over-tensing and over-stretching muscles, over-breathing and labouring the heart, the dominant emotions (at least on a subconscious level) will tend to be fear, anger, aggression, competitiveness, and a sense of lack of safety. This does not sound at all to me like the yoga described in the Yamas and Niyamas of Patanjalis Yoga Sutras. I believe that if you are doing real yoga then you should be feeling love, happiness and safety while you are practicing not only in your relaxation after your exercise. I believe that you should be enhancing the activities of the digestive, immune and reproductive systems, not depleting them; and that this is what creates the possibility for internal health, happiness and longevity. Your yoga practice should be able to increase blood flow without needing to increase heart rate, like a meditating yogi can sit relaxed and naked in the snow but not get cold. To generate yoga on a physical level by improving blood flow without needing to increase heart rate is not only possible but it is the way of healthy people and the way of real hatha yoga. There are 11 other ways of increasing blood flow other than the heart. However, to achieve this it is not possible to simply learn yoga in one month and learn how to teach yoga in one month, especially if your teacher has only learnt for one month, or even a few years. I see that the biggest problem in modern yoga is that it is being spread and taught by people who have mostly missed the essence of true yoga and who lack the traditional and modern science required to translate the ancient teachings into the modern body that has been so radically affected by a predominantly sedentary chair lifestyle in the stressful environment of modern life. Many people attending modern yoga classes have diagnosed or undiagnosed musculoskeletal problems, medical conditions and mental disorders. Modern yoga teachers invariably have to address the physical, physiological and mental states of their students. Many yoga teachers dont even realise that most modern people have these problems. Other teachers, usually with minimal qualifications, infer that they can help people with musculoskeletal problems like a physiotherapist can, infer that they can help people with medical conditions like a medical doctor can, and infer that they can help people with mental disorders like a psychologist can. If possible I would like to see the introduction of a much more stringent grading system for yoga teachers that really is much more like the grading systems of medical doctors, physiotherapists and psychologists. That may sound extreme to some people, but I ask you that if you were not healthy or had a physical, physiological or mental problem, how would you feel if your therapist (who may tell you that they are a doctor, physiotherapist or psychologist) also confesses to you that they have had only one month of formal training in their field! Would you feel confident to place your body trustingly in their hands? ***** For more information you can pm me or you can see our blog at https://yogasynergy.com/category/simon-borg-olivier/ You can join my free short course (6 weeks x 10-15 minutes video each week) at https://yogasynergy.com//boost-12-ways-effectively-move-en ***** Thanks to Malwina Ostrowska for this photo of me in India last year. **** My forthcoming live and online trainings are as follows: *** June - November 2019: 200 hour Synergy TT Intensive Training (modular), Sydney and Byron Bay, Australia https://yogasynergy.com//200hour-teacher-training-sydney-/ *** 14-16 June 2019: Synergy weekend Workshop Mullumbimby, Australia https://www.facebook.com/events/461658301041706/ *** 5-14 July, 2019: Interactive Applied Anatomy & Physiology of Yoga Yoga Synergy, Sydney, Australia https://yogasynergy.com//interactive-applied-anatomy-phys/ *** 19-28 July 2019: Synergy 10 day workshop Maine, Portland, USA https://www.facebook.com/events/2156383641104637/ *** 10-12 August 2019: Synergy 3 day workshop SPACE Studio, Brighton, UK https://www.spaceyogastudio.uk/workshops/ *** 1-23 August 2019: NowHere Yoga TTC 200 hour intensive residential teacher training (Simon teaching the last 100 hours) Near Barcelona, Spain https://www.facebook.com/events/320956355429769/ *** 24-25 August 2019: Synergy Weekend Workshop Barcelona, Spain http://nowhere.yoga//simon-borg-olivier-masterclass-series/ *** 6-10 September, 2019 Synergy Workshop, Home of Yoga Perth, Australia https://www.facebook.com/events/411476099668202/ *** 22 September 2019: One day Synergy Workshop, Ihana Yoga Melbourne, Australia https://ihanayoga.com.au/workshops/ *** 24 September - 27 October 2019: 200/300/100 hour Synergy Intensive TT Om Hum Retreat, Bali, Indonesia https://yogasynergy.com//teacher-training-bali-sep-oct-20/ *** 30 October - 10 November 2019: Arava Festival and Synergy Workshops, Israel (various locations) https://www.yogaarava.co.il/en *** 13-24 November 2019: 10 day Synergy Intensive Retreat Paradise One Resort, Byron Shire, Australia https://yogasynergy.com//yoga-synergy-byron-bay-retreat-n/ *** 26 November - 5 December 2019 64 hour Synergy Intensive training Bangkok , Thailand https://www.facebook.com/events/464745594284688/ *** 1-29 February 2020: 200 hour Synergy Intensive TT Mandala Retreat, Goa, India https://yogasynergy.com//teacher-training-goa-india-febru/ ONLINE COURSES: Yoga fundamentals / Applied Anatomy and Physiology of Yoga / Therapeutic Applications of Posture, Movement and Breathing https://yogasynergy.com/online-courses/ For details please see the YogaSynergy website (www.yogasynergy.com) or private message me

07.01.2022 While babies are sleeping. Yoga time #savasana

06.01.2022 Windy days remind us of the need to stay grounded. How can we connect with earth and that feeling of stability and support? Some strategies that we can use that Yoga and Ayurveda offer are: Doing grounding poses such as Tadasana and Warrior ll, feeling our feet firmly connected to earth. Or rubbing warm sesame oil onto our feet. Doing what we can do to connect to earth. Notice how the wind affects you and what can You do to stay grounded?

06.01.2022 Hoping to be a bit more present in social media yoga world to share my thoughts this year. Thank you for your support

03.01.2022 Today and everyday. May everyone be happy, healthy and at peace.

03.01.2022 I love this. I often share this practice in Yoga and counselling. Hold yourself with care. More like this at my upcoming workshop link below. https://facebook.com/events/s/body-love-workshop/620251661890181/?ti=icl

02.01.2022 We can always find time no matter how busy we are and feel to practice

02.01.2022 Mental health is more than just hanging in there. In this Mental health week I have been focusing on self care and building a strong foundation. With a little help from our nature friends.