Yoga is the quieting of the mind into stillness. It is the ability to direct the mind without distraction or interruption.

The practice of yoga only requires us to be attentive to our actions. To fully understand yoga one must engage in it: slow down, breathe and bring one's full attention to the concept, essentially be in relationship with the idea until it becomes part of one's conscious awareness. Yoga is a relationship, filled with sustained attention moment to moment.

The collective practices of yoga - physical, philosophical, mental and spiritual - are vehicles through which to experience attention without distraction or interruption, portals to the ultimate destination of Self-realization.

Yoga restores simplicity and peace to the mind, creates physical and emotional well being. In the west, hatha yoga is very popular. Hatha yoga is the physical aspect of the practice. There are many schools of hatha yoga including, Kripalu, Iyengar, Kundalini, Shivanada, Ashtanga and more. The intention of hatha yoga is to unify the energies of the sun on the left (Ha) and the moon on the right (Tha), and merge them into the central prana (life-force energy) passage in the centre of the spine.

Yoga postures, or asanas, are a means to a more important activity, the direction and use of prana. Prana is the healing source of yoga, not the asana as commonly believed. To embrace the healing force of prana one must attend to the flow of energy in the pose, by focusing on the breath and moving with the prana. Thus the pose becomes a living expression. Perfection in the asana is unique and individual, perfection is achieved when the form becomes effortless and conscious awareness is maintained.

Asana is a thoughtful process in which balance is maintained between movement and resistance; and comfort is eventually claimed. Continuous attention to each step of the pose and the transition between poses, with the breath and directed focus, leads to conscious union. The practice of yoga is an invitation to come home, to once again take residence in the body. By honouring our body in each moment, by attending to inner sensations, thoughts and emotions, by cultivating compassion, appreciation and love one is welcomed into wholeness, into unbounded consciousness.