Yoga with Manjunaga

06/03/2026

Quote for the week is by L. R. Knost - It Feels good to be reminded of this in these uncertain times.

01/03/2026

Within our busy lives we often need a breathing space. Time to pause, relax and recalibrate.

A chance to have a break from work, family commitments, the news, even social media.

Time to just ‘be’.

I am pleased to share with you that we are offering an opportunity to join me and my good friend Satyamati for a week in the beautiful Sussex countryside for a yoga & meditation retreat Rivendell retreat centre.

During this retreat we will have the opportunity to explore the energetic principles of the Sun and Moon through the body and creative imagination.

These retreats offer the opportunity to combine the practice of yoga with the added depth of awareness that meditation creates.

An introduction to Buddhist meditation will also be taught on the retreat led by Satyamati. The Meditation and Yoga taught will emphasise a body-based approach.

Rivendell is situated on the edge of a small East Sussex village, the retreat centre itself is housed in a former Victorian rectory. Surrounding the house is a lovely garden, beyond which lie fields and woodland. It has simple communal accommodation, which is warm and comfortable.

Balancing the Moon & Sun:
Yoga & Meditation Week
With Manjunaga & Satyamati
Rivendell Retreat Centre.
Friday, July 10th - Friday, July 17th
£459 - £359 concessions

Everyone is welcome: This retreat is suitable for those new to meditation and Buddhism.

Full details are available in the link below.
https://rivendellretreatcentre.com/retreat/146/balancing-the-moon-sun-yoga-meditation-week/

20/02/2026

Poem for the week is 'Enough' by the poet David Whyte.

17/02/2026

Dear Yoga Friends ,

I have new Yoga Classes starting next week.

All courses are held at the Didsbury Parsonage, a beautiful Grade II listed building set in a magical secret garden.

MONDAY
Mixed Level 7 Week Yoga Course
6.00-7.00pm 2nd March till 27th April
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£87.50/£84.50 concessions (4 places left )

MONDAY
Beginners 7 Week Yoga Course
7.30-8.30pm 2nd March till 27th April
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£87.50/£84.50 concessions ( Fully booked )

TUESDAY
Morning Yoga 8 Week Yoga Course
9.30-10.30am 3rd March till 28th April
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions (4 places left )

TUESDAY
Restorative & Yin Yoga 8 Week Yoga Course
6.00-7.00pm 3rd March till 28th April
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions ( 3 places left )

THURSDAY
Beginners 8 Week Yoga Course
7.30-8.30pm 5th March till 30th April
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions ( 5 places left )

All courses are held at the Didsbury Parsonage, a beautiful Grade II listed building set in a magical secret garden.

Explore classical yoga postures in a safe and supportive environment where students are encouraged to listen to their own body and go at a pace that is comfortable to them.

The courses will focus on building safe alignment infused by clear anatomical understanding. exploring a mixture of flowing sequences and static poses.

These classes will be run in pre-booked courses of 7 & 8 weeks and available to 12 students to allow for intimacy and focused attention.

Everyone is welcome: If you would like to join me you can book a place via the link below. www.manjunaga.com/classes

Warm wishes x
Manjunaga

14/02/2026

Poem for the week is one of my favourite's by the poet Anne Michaels. 'May Love Seize You'

08/02/2026

Poem for the week is 'Small Kindnesses' by Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.

And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.

We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.

We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”

Image Alin Luna

30/01/2026

Poem of the Week is by Martha Postlewaite

Clearing

Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worth of rescue.

Image Johannes Plenio

23/01/2026

Poem for the week is one of favourites by L.R Knost.

19/01/2026

⭐ Opening Your Heart : Yoga & Meditation Workshop ⭐
Saturday 28th February 10am – 1pm
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ

An opportunity to explore opening your heart through the practice of yoga and meditation. See how these teachings can offer creative ways of working with your heart and mind in a busy world.

We will explore a combination of flowing movement through a combination of circular and spiral patterns as well as a stilling-style practice, focusing on restorative and meditative practices, working with more subtle energetic aspects of our being.

I will also be introducing some meditation practices: Samatha (for calming & positive emotion). We will also have the opportunity to connect and explore our relationship to our heart and the Manomaya Kosha (The emotional body), looking at how a deeper opening to our emotions and feelings, can bring us more fully into life.

This workshop is ideal for anybody wishing to explore yoga and meditation for the first time, or students with an established practice wishing to go deeper.

Open to all levels of experience.

The Didsbury Parsonage, a beautiful Grade II listed building set in a magical garden.
Full workshop price is £45 / £40 non-refundable, non-transferable.
(Concessions apply to students, the unemployed, OAP’s)

You can book a place via the link below.
www.manjunaga.com/yoga-workshop

16/01/2026

Poem for the week is 'The Horses' by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

From the window I saw the horses.

I was in Berlin, in winter. The light
had no light, the sky had no heaven.

The air was white like wet bread.

And from my window a vacant arena,
bitten by the teeth of winter.

Suddenly driven out by a man,
ten horses surged through the mist.

Like waves of fire, they flared forward
and to my eyes filled the whole world,
empty till then. Perfect, ablaze,
they were like ten gods with pure white hoofs,
with manes like a dream of salt.

Their rumps were worlds and oranges.

Their color was honey, amber, fire.

Their necks were towers
cut from the stone of pride,
and behind their transparent eyes
energy raged, like a prisoner.

There, in silence, at mid-day,
in that dirty, disordered winter,
those intense horses were the blood
the rhythm, the inciting treasure of life.

I looked. I looked and was reborn:
for there, unknowing, was the fountain,
the dance of gold, heaven
and the fire that lives in beauty.

I have forgotten that dark Berlin winter.

I will not forget the light of the horses.

❤️

14/01/2026

Does this posture feel familiar to you ? 😕

The Posture Crisis of Our Time

A silent transformation is unfolding before our eyes — the rise of hyperkyphosis driven by excessive screen use. What was once an age-related deformity is now reshaping the posture of teenagers and young adults, their spines bending under the weight of digital dependence.

Prolonged hours hunched over devices are not just changing how we look, but how our bodies function — leading to chronic pain, restricted breathing, nerve impingement, and lasting spinal damage.

This isn’t just a cosmetic issue; it’s a growing health crisis born from our modern habits. The future of a generation is quite literally bending forward.