For me Yoga is about feeling fully alive, free, full of energy and totally present. Yoga promotes a strong, healthy and fit body and mind allowing me to experience life full on.
I started practising Yoga before I went up to Oxford to read Physics in the 1970s. My youthful enquiring mind was eager to find out what made the physical world tick. What was revealed to me was that the universe is a much stranger place than common sense would suggest. The modern Physics of relativity and quantum mechanics is a bizarre and counter-intuitive world. But understanding the complex hidden structures leads to practical applications. Who would have believed then the revolution in computer technology that was waiting to unfold. My career has taken me from designing communications systems through to integrating software applications.
| In parallel with my fascination with the behaviour of the physical environment, I have always been curious about how the human mind and body function. As a Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) I have seen how unique human excellence can be modelled and reproduced, and how the mind has seemingly infinite other-than conscious resources. And in Yoga I enjoy my own personal laboratory on the Yoga mat, where I can experiment in the places where the mysteries of the universe meet the deeply personal layers of experience. For some light relief at the weekends, apart from Yoga teacher training retreats and books on Yoga philosophy, I am a glider pilot. The transition from being earthbound to skimming under the cloud-base is always spectacularly thrilling. Mountain flying especially is full of those awesome time-stopping moments. And then down to earth again I am content to get my hands dirty in the garden, although my wife says I am more interested in redesigning the garden than maintaining it, until it's time to share preparing supper with my wife, and banter with our grown up daughters. |
