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"When we care about people, we want to save them from pain by offering them the benefit of our experience. Sometimes we feel like we know what is best for them. Sometimes, like when their safety is involved, we need to step in, but those...

Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the...

“Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.” -B.K.S. Iyengar   Inner Wellness Studio invites you to fully embrace Yoga as a technology for holistic living. This course...

Considering becoming a certified yoga instructor? Ask yourself these six questions before signing up: 1. Are you a good fit? In my opinion, yoga teacher training only benefits people who want to teach. It's a good idea to have at least...

Adapt this recipe for easy overnight oats to suit your tastes. You can add dried fruit, seeds and nuts, grated apple or pear, or chopped tropical fruits Ingredients: 1/4  tsp ground cinnamon 100ml water or milk 50g rolled porridge oats 2...

Q&A with Paramahamsa Niranjanananda Question: For nine years I have been practising yoga with intensity, but I am still caught by passions and attachments to the pleasures of life, and this makes me suffer because I would like to feel...

Come try out the Nia Move IT class -a revolutionary approach to whole body fitness integrating the best of exercise science and somatic movement through Nia's sensory-based approach to fitness. You will get to do all of Nia's 52 Moves in...

Each year during the Spring Equinox the South African Kundalini Yoga Community gathers for the Spring Kundalini Yoga Festival or Skyfest, a celebration of kundalini yoga, wellness and community. The venue  for this years festivities is...

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” This is the power of responsibility, the complete ownership of who you have been, who you are, and who you will become -  Victor Frankl  " Man’s...

"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future....

Warmer weather is on the way and with it the start to lighter meal ideas.  Enjoy!!!           Ingredients:  1 1/2 cups quinoa, rinsed and drained 3 cups water 1/4 cup finely chopped hazelnuts 1/4 cup finely...

" What causes us to make the decisions we make and to evolve in the way that we do?  In Sanskrit, Sanskaras are known as impressions and they are karmic motivational forces that continually arise in an individual's consciousness. They...

Life Retreat Studio, Cathy Venter, and Klasie Wessels from Street School humbly bring you a talk by Geshe Lobsang Dhondup - the CULTURAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR HH THE DALAI LAMA in Africa.This event is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to...

Would you like to refresh or further your teaching skills? Inner Wellness Studio is dedicating the next 3 Wednesday’s of August to refining our teaching practice by sharing our understanding with other teachers. If this sounds like...

As the winds get stronger, the temperatures colder, and the heating higher – the more we battle to maintain our healthy skin! If the air is dry, it removes the layer of oil that retains moisture in the skin and ultimately, those prone to...

" In the end, she became more than she expected. She became the journey and like all journeys she did not end, she just simply changed directions and kept going...." - R. M Drake 

Fabulous stuff happening here. Look outside. The longest total lunar eclipse this century will begin today at 7.14pm. It lasts until 1.28am Saturday morning. It's at its maximum at 10.21pm and lasts a total of 6 hours 14 minutes. Compare...

To celebrate Mandela Day, we invite everyone to get together at the historic Constitution Hill in Braamfontein and work through 27 yoga poses to honour the great courage and beauty of the late Nelson Mandela. Many of the poses remind us...

Pumpkins have a sweet flavor that soothes the Vata dosha. This easy pumpkin soup recipe is wonderful to make when you want to feel warmed and nourished from the inside out. The pumpkin’s cheerful orange flesh is  packed with beta...

Sometimes, commentators on the Yoga Sutra translate upeksha as “indifference” in the face of nonvirtuous, immoral, or harmful deeds of others, but upeksha is better understood as “equanimity”—a state of even-minded openness that allows...

" At this moment, for the first time, we saw ourselves from a distance, and the earth in its surrounding dark emptiness not only seemed impossibly beautiful but also impossibly fragile. Most of all, we could see clearly that it was...