Being human
and life's little mysteries

The two words that come to for me when I consider the past week of my physical and emotional healing process are Pain and Love,...

I woke from a daydream this morning feeling extreme nausea; I vomited, and started to cry. It felt good, to cry, something my eyes have...

Today has been another eventful day at the Royal Free complete with wonderful visits from friends, and medical progress around the...

I realize that when I write about the medical complexities of organ transplantation it’s not always easy to follow, even for me. Even for...

PYS 1.33: Maitri Karuna Muditopeksanam Sukha Dukha Punyapunya Visayanam Bhavantas Citta Prasnadanam Definition: Maitri -friendliness...

Life on 10N is Very touch and go right now. Each day there are new emergencies and something physical, emotional and/or mental to...

Time, beyond being a measuring tool to make appointments which deem us too early or too late, confounds my cortical mind. It has been...

PYS 2.3 avidya asmita raga dvesha abinivesha pancha klesha There are five kinds of hindrances or obstacles of the mind (kleshas): 1)...

Yoga chitta vritti nirodhah (Patanjali 1.2) The state of yoga ceases the fluctuations of the mind (when you are in a state of yoga, all...

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest...

There is more to life than increasing its speed. –Mahatma Gandhi It never ceases to amaze me how people spend their time. Whether its...

I’ve always had a great admiration for people who are able to communicate directly. This isn’t always easy, especially for those living...

A beautiful being, friend, yoga student created this presentation for the NHS to increase awareness and numbers of registered organ...

If your life were a game, what type of game would it be? Chess, Monopoly, Solitaire? In the past six months, my life has turned into a...

Whether we realize it or not, our lives are but a series of relationships. Egg to sperm, fetus to uterus, mother to baby, baby to mother....

There are moments in life when it is appropriate to step back from actively participating in the richness and complexity in the...

One of the benefits of a regular long term yoga or meditation practice is the increased capacity to listen. At first this may be focused...

After a blissful, blessed evening with beautiful beings offering up pure love in every direction, it is hard for me to believe that this...

By all accounts, this week was an important week. This evening I returned home to my beautiful family without pain, and have remained...

Monday marked the beginning of Transplant Assessment Week, the week that consists of many tests and procedures to establish whether or...