Ashtanga Brighton Blog

This week I’ve really been feeling the words spoken by Lisa, our Off The Mat victim for the February Newsletter. To the question “What do you enjoy most about your practise?” she replied “That it’s always there, and that you are able to hook into this amazing network of people wherever you are.”

I was struck by how true this is when Françoize, a French Ashtangi, posted a comment on the Ashtanga Blog saying she was coming to Brighton for a few days and wanted to know where she could practise. We started emailing each other and that was the beginning of  a beautiful friendship! Not only do we have Ashtanga in common, but she’s also a writer – a career I’m currently trying to forge for myself.

So, after a few days practising together, as well as a morning coffee and an evening meal, Guy and I quickly discover what a lovely, funny, kindhearted, genuine, adventurous woman we have met! There’s already talk of meeting again in London in the summer and offers of staying with her family in Paris. I feel we’ve made a wonderful connection and that we’ve known each other for a lot longer than a few days. And it’s all thanks to Ashtanga and its amazing network of people.

Hello,

Finally, I’ve redesigned the Ashtanga Brighton home page! The design is much more focused around the most popular sections of the website. I determined these from the site stats over the past year (if you’re interested, check out my slightly geeky post on the topic)

Hopefully the redesign will improve sign-up to the popular monthly email newsletter, which wasn’t very clear.

You can also follow Ashtanga Brighton on Twitter and the new design grabs the lastest 5 tweets off twitter and displays them on page. I tweet about the ups and downs of daily practice and any news of upcoming workshops or Ashtanga news.

One of the challenges of the design was to make better use of the screen real estate available with monitors with higher resolutions and also not have to redesign the entire site. So I kept the main image of Ganesh, the Ashtanga Brighton heading font and the grey patterned background.

Hope you like the design and any comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Like practice the website is never complete, except in this moment of course, which is just perfect!

Namaste

G

I now have a brand spanking new website to advertise my copywriting, copyediting and proofreading services, which you can view here: www.mosscopywriting.co.uk.

If you hear of anyone needing any copywriting or editing services, be it for websites, blogs, brochures, posters, magazines, books, or any other kind of marketing material, do send them my way.

You can follow me on Twitter, Linked In and Xing – see the website for details. I also write a personal blog as the Seaside Scribbler.

The site was designed and built (of course) by Guy at zero G media and is hosted by 100% wind powered energy.

Namaste

Hannah x

A big welcome back to Sarah, who is looking far too tanned, rested and healthy quite the opposite to how I am feeling.

To have someone teaching every  day who knows your practice so intimately is a real privelige and  appreciated.  it is particularly interesting how teachers can differ in their approach but it us up to the student to decide what works for them whilst keeping to the tradition of the practice and using the knowledge and guidance inparted wisely.

Only two days back and already Sarah, has given me a great shoulder opener and is keen to share her experiences from her recent visit with Rolf.

After 8 years of practice I am having a difficult time with the changes that appear to be happening in my practice but with patience and Sarah’s guidance i am sure I will soon work through this period and come out the other end stronger in so many ways.

Have a great 2010 and I look forward to another year practicing with such a dedicated group of yogis.

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