Yoga am Fluss

Who know what’s worth recording in a blog, for the sake of posterity. Or even for oneself, as one tends to forget.

Yet I know this much and I want to remember it:

• Every time I spend an hour practising yoga, things look better afterwards. The winter spleen recedes, the rain looks less bleak, problems feel easier to solve.
• Finding a good yoga teacher is not unlike finding a good shrink, transfert included.
• If you’re looking for classes in Zurich, try Yoga am Fluss by Susan Connor.

Yoga thought of the day

Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

- attributed to St. Francis de Sales, 1567-1622

On alibis vs. discipline

I’ve been falling behind on many of the things I love (reading, movies, yoga). Why is that, I ask myself?

The undisciplined person says: I don’t have enough time.
The disciplined person says: I don’t have enough discipline.

No-blogging weekend: yoga in Rimini

No blogging this weekend – I’ll be in Rimini, attending a yoga workshop led by Australian teacher Swami Sivamurti Saraswati. Hoping to stay away from my laptop for at least 24 hours and detox. See you all next week!

What is your path to feeling alive?

An interesting post on the Avanoo blog a few days ago. I’m somewhere in the plain-vanilla mainstream when it comes to actual sex, I don’t drink alcohol, and I practice yoga (just not three hours a day, like the guy in the post – a yoga practice that, by the way, would seem to me incompatible with an investment banking job). What’s your combination?