I’ve just heard from Scott of Stillpoint Yoga London that Stillpoint co-founder, teaching partner and friend, Ozge is in a deep coma and in intensive care in India. Her family are are flying out to be with her.

Please keep her in your heart and offer a prayer for her and her family during this dark time.

Om Tryambakam – The Life Giving Prayer

Ohm Triambakam yayamahe Sugandim pushti vardanam,
Urdvarukam bandhanam mrtior mukshiya amritam

Wishing everybody a happy xmas and a fantastic new year full of love, harmony and joy, and of course a healthy measure of awareness, mindfulness and concentration, both off and on the mat.

I am already looking forward to seeing you on the 3rd of January.

Lots of love to you

x Adriane

Yesterday we said goodbye to Sarah Miles who’s been teaching the morning Mysore classes for 5 years since Russell Case left Brighton. She’s off to Spain with her husband for a few months and then who knows what other adventures. We’re sad to see her go and obviously wish her luck wherever the road takes her.

Personally I feel that Sarah demonstrated an inspiring level of dedication and helped me through the many difficulties I’ve had to face in my own practice. She’s 100% committed to both the practice and her students. I’ll miss her.

We’re also very happy that Adriane is back in Brighton and will be teaching at the BNHC until the end of the year.

Here are a couple of blog posts written by Ashtangis about their experiences of attending a week of led primary classes with Sharath Jois in London August 2011. If you find any others please let me know: guy at ashtangabrighton.com

Yoga Mama London

Life On And Off The Mat

Little Pink Kitchen

The Journey Of My Practice – a post for every day of Sharath’s visit

Our week with Sharath (Ashtanga Brighton)

Sharath London Conference notes (Ashtanga Brighton)

Traditional Kirtan & Bhajan Concert with Swami Mangalanada

Location:

Brighton

Venue:

Jing Institute

Price:

£8/£10

Date:

Fri 29th July

Time:

19:30 – 21:30

Benefit Concert for the Ashram free school at Jing Institute in Brighton

An evening of Indian devotional music

The whole culture and spirituality of India is contained within the beautiful and traditional bhajans. The concert will present an authentic experience of typical village devotional musical poetry (bhajan) and responsive singing of the Names of the Divine (kirtan). The Swamis have many years experience of singing together and performing, and will offer the traditional music heard within an Indian ashram (spiritual center). Each bhajan will be explained before it is sung with a view to giving a greater understanding of Indian music and culture to the listeners.

Swamiji will be joined by Narayani, a popular local Kirtan performer. The concert will be an absolutely amazing experience so please do come join us!