ૐ Susie Blackie Yoga

15/09/2025

In the end I found yoga, it took a while before I realised it was not about how far I could touch toes, bend this way and that, calm myself or get stronger; at the time I had no idea how my life would change and the way I see and aproach the world.

Poses were never really the whole point, they provded an open door to everything else. Finding the stillness and the quiet even during a challenging practice; observing the breath, falling out of a balace and not judging......coming back again and again to the mat; Tapas, refining and purifying.

Yoga philosophy is the key to humanness, the love, the gratitude, the awareness grows. Ahimsa teaches kindness and compassion to all; Svadhyaya guides, asks us to bravely look inward and study the self. As the pinnacle of the yamas is Ahimsa so Ishwara Pranidhana is the peek for the Niyamas, allowing surender rather than weakness, wholehearted dedication and devotion to yoga, pranyama, meditation and study.

Asana is the gateway for our lives beyond the mat, giving us the space to speak kindly, to breathe through difficult times, to hold that space for ourselves.

Yoga is a gift that becomes a duty.

15/01/2025

I didn’t appreciate their utility — and paid for it.

19/12/2024

Final class for 2024 at the Unity Centre for Sport in Mind. Many brought some food which was blessed and served at the end of class by participants. I received flowers and a gift from them, so grateful and happy 😊

23/07/2024

What makes yoga unique?
Yoga's power is its focus on listening to our body's needs, rather than our minds desires. This is what makes yoga stand alone.

22/07/2024

The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself, not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths. What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light? Or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
One of the psychological problems in growing old is the fear of death. People resist the door of death. But this body is a vehicle of consciousness, and if you can identify with the consciousness, you can watch this body go like an old car. There goes the fender, there goes the tire, one thing after another— but it’s predictable. And then, gradually, the whole thing drops off, and consciousness, rejoins consciousness. It is no longer in this particular environment. ~Joseph Campbell

04/06/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zdvw

24/05/2023

https://youtu.be/6XP-f7wPM0A

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20/02/2023

Resting, planning, working with new classes.

20/12/2022

Wishing I was back doing this