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What are the six causes of Delusion or Emotional Disturbance and how can they be Restrained?

October 31, 2020 By Linda Apps Leave a Comment

Overcoming the obstacles of emotions is not easy!

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Balance, Courage and Caution practicing yoga with MS

August 16, 2020 By yoganook Leave a Comment

Garth McClean

Read interview between Linda and Garth McClean in Australian Yoga Life.

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Yoga helped Petra deal with a difficult diagnosis, now she’s helping others

June 25, 2020 By Linda Apps Leave a Comment

Petra today

Listen to our inspirational podcast by Petra.

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Yoga Nook Videos

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It’s OK to feel blue

September 27, 2019 By Linda Apps 2 Comments

Reading “The Body keeps the Score” reminds me how much we store in our bodies, and having a massage the other day I remembered and was amazed at how much pain our bodies can store. Our bodies are great friends to us, absorbing as much as they can so we can continue to function in […]

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Overcoming fear and doubt with yoga practice

April 6, 2018 By Linda Apps Leave a Comment

I was watching Mr Bean the other night with my son Luke. Mr Bean climbs to the top of a very tall diving tower and then loses his nerve. It’s so funny to watch him clinging to the ground and squirming around as he does whatever he can to avoid going over the edge. At […]

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Peter Thomson: There is a method, and an order, in the asana that needs to be respected.

February 16, 2018 By yoganook 4 Comments

In this podcast, I’d like to introduce you to Peter Thomson, my first yoga teacher. I started yoga with him way back in the 1980s. If not for him, I would not be a yoga teacher today. Peter sees yoga as a way of understanding life, as a meditative activity and training. He talked about […]

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Iyengar Yoga helps Geelong Cats’ Harry Taylor deal with AFL pressure

October 9, 2017 By Linda Apps Leave a Comment

The end of another AFL season sees the winners celebrating and the losers re-grouping to make an assault on the summit once again next year. In their comparatively short careers elite athletes like AFL players face the challenges of life writ large – success, failure, injury. To simply make it to an elite team is […]

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Alert like a Warrior – Reflections on Gulnaaz Dashti workshop

August 22, 2017 By Linda Apps 1 Comment

Gulnaaz Dashti is an Indian teacher who studied and taught with the Iyengar family at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Institute in Pune, India. She now teaches outside the Institute in Pune and travels the world teaching workshops. Earlier this year she taught a workshop at the Marrickville Yoga Centre. Tiffany Lee-Shoy is a teacher trainee […]

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Pixie Lillas: Always go out the door with some Yoga behind you

August 13, 2017 By yoganook 10 Comments

Pixie Lillas has been a shining light in the Iyengar Yoga world for almost 40 years. She is well known for her commitment to her practice and her ongoing support for younger teachers through her teacher training and the Iyengar Yoga assessments.  She started yoga with three practices a day when she was 26 and […]

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Garth McLean: Yoga for MS, BKS says proceed with courage and caution

July 22, 2016 By Linda Apps 2 Comments

Garth McLean uses Iyengar Yoga to manage his multiple sclerosis and travels the world to share what he’s learnt.

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How I learned to love Jathara Parivartanasana

July 12, 2016 By Linda Apps 6 Comments

Surprisingly to me, this is my favourite pose of the moment, jathara parivartanasana. Jathar means abdomen in Sanskrit and parivartanasnana is from parivartti, meaning turning around. As I prepared for my recent JI3 assessment I struggled with teaching this pose – there didn’t seem to be much to it! And it’s a struggle to do until you […]

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Life lessons from a melanoma diagnosis

June 17, 2016 By Linda Apps 1 Comment

Iyengar yoga teacher Linda Apps talks to movement therapist James Walsh about his melanoma diagnosis. In 2009 my friend James Walsh was diagnosed with cancer – stage three melanoma. As an ex-rugby league player, James knew that when things get difficult you’re not supposed to hide. He tackled his diagnosis head-on, displaying an inspiring strength of […]

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When is ‘enough’ enough?

April 24, 2016 By Linda Apps Leave a Comment

I don’t know if you’ve tried to give away a TV recently, but unless it’s a flat screen, no-one’s interested. And even those, the TV repairman told me, are just being left out on the street. Must be a symptom of a well-to-do society. According to Bob Brown, Australians have never been richer than we […]

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Last Blog from India

January 4, 2016 By Linda Apps 3 Comments

Well we’re heading home tomorrow morning and my son Luke can’t wait! He’s had a stomach ache from eating too many cashews and a cold but has otherwise survived, much to my relief. He has spent so much time on Youtube that he has decided to become a Youtuber. Not really the outcome I was […]

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Bellur exceeds expectations

December 31, 2015 By Linda Apps Leave a Comment

Bellur was fantastic of course. We stayed in a run down but wonderful hotel – wonderful because it had monkeys, a waterslide and pool, table tennis and badminton. We met some lovely Americans, Russians, Latvians, Aussies, and Indians. Luke played water polo with some young Indian men and posed for lots of photographs. Bellur is a small village […]

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