Yoga for Changing Times is for practitioners or yoga teachers wanting to explore how the essential teaching and practice of yoga can make a ripple effect for change in our daily lives. We dive in deep, so some experience is helpful, but essentially I’m hoping to create a diverse community of people working creatively with yoga and some of the important issues facing our planet and the people living here in these changing times.

The project began in 2019 in person in Dublin. It moved online in the pandemic in 2020 and has since acquired an international flavour. It remains an online project. We meet on Zoom for two 3-hour sessions over weekends. The timing is chosen to suit both European and transatlantic time zones. 

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‘The state of yoga … is a beginning and not an end-point … a momentary state, the initiator of a process which transforms both our perception and our being in the world.’ (Peter Hersnack)

In essence, yoga is a philosophical and spiritual teaching for living freely and fully in the world. The practice on the mat allows for a change on a cellular level. In a world which is changing so rapidly, our relationship with yoga can be a support, but it needs to be a living support, which can change as we do – and allow for a transformation of consciousness which is needed to move into the future.

The practice on the mat is like a laboratory for exploration which has the potential to change us on a cellular level, so we quite literally become ‘the change we want to see’.

What is essential in yoga can then remain both relevant and resonant to our changing lives.

My ‘vision’ is along these lines, but always very flexible –  it’s a joint project!:

Vision:

• an evolving community of people, some yoga teachers, others not, with the desire to explore how yoga can support and nourish us in this sometimes bewildering, fast-changing world.  
• a nourishing space for practice, sharing and joyful living!
• an evolving process, led by the whole group.
• open to ideas and practices from other areas (somatic practices, ideas from environmental teachers etc).
• yoga in its broadest sense remaining as the hub of a turning wheel.

• online weekend workshops, with a specific theme to each workshop.
• all work to be grounded in practice– postures, the breath and meditative practice.
• 2 or 3 practices a day (some ‘mini’, some longer).
• workshop-style work to explore ideas and specific postures in more detail.
• sharing and discussion of key ideas from yoga teaching (mostly the Yoga Sūtra of Patanjali), which we then explore in practice.
• a recognition of our potential, and the need to tap into the unknown in order to ‘be the change we want to see’.
• yoga as a teaching for living–  in order to inform our daily lives (work, family, and the local and global community ).
• inspired by the teaching of Peter Hersnack – filtered through our own experience.