Clinging to the bannister

I was so looking forward to going to boarding school. I’d told my friends and they were impressed. It was for rich kids, they said. I was proud of my family and pleased that I’d be living up to the dreams and ambitions of my grandparents who, I had been told, were taking financial responsibility

Have a look at www.knowyogaireland.com

Well well, this is going well, isn’t it? I can’t seem to find a way to simply link KnowYogaIreland which is my website where you’ll find everything you need to know about me now (although this is still fun as an archive, and I have lots and lots I could continue to add here). In

Respect, King Canute! Reflecting on time and tide

We all suffer from a nagging sense of fear, or anxiety, or dissatisfaction, or loneliness, at some point. To recognise that this is in some sense an illusion brought about by the patterns that contain and occupy us like fractals which then bloom into other possibilities related to the last is not to relegate everything

Urgent Matters – hasten slowly

URGENT MATTERS: Hasten Slowly I finally had a conversation with the acquisitions editor in Palgrave about delays with publishing my second book (I’m a contributor and editor. It’s a joint publication). Today, or over the weekend, I’ll go through the final edits, I hope. It would be wonderful if this could be published soon. It’s

Retreat to reflect – and a mission statement!

I get a lot of email invitations to meetings, usually in some respect associated with lobbying for changes in legislation so the ecological emergency gets more prominence. I sometimes don’t know what the organisations are or what their mission statement is. So I decided I’d better think about my own mission statement. What is it

To book retreats, please email!

I’m having some technical issues with this site. Largely because it’s become too complicated. I’m working to scale back. You live, you learn. If you want to book a retreat with me, either on the 14th November 2021 in North West Mayo (UISCE, Elly Bay) – a Sunday – or on the 20th November –

Retreats, courses, writing about bad apples – and my latest trick!

Well, here we are again. I’m organising two retreats, one in West Cork, and one in North-West Mayo. The poster for the Mayo one is below. The poster for the West Cork one is in the making (it will be the following Saturday, 20th November). I’m also creating content for a course that I’ll offer

Retreats in the Fall

Satya means The Truth, but it’s worth asking: What is Real? 

“The scientific truth is that we are contextualised, and inseparable from context. Therefore seeing problems as being “outside” us assumes that a technological approach will and can fix them. It can not.” (edited from Love is Green: compassion as responsibility in the ecological emergency, 2019, Vernon Press)  This truth is that we are interconnected, and

An extract from my third book on Yoga and the Ecological Emergency

Ahimsa  We are going to focus in this chapter on the first of the Yamas as the key attitude to open the doors of enlightenment. As I said in chapter one, Yama means death, since Yama was a god of death in Indian mythology. Death is the ultimate restraint, but also the ultimate liberator. We