The fifth annual Yoga Show will be held at the National Hall in Olympia, London, from the 30th October to the 1st of November 2009. The event is good for beginners and experienced yoga students alike, and has lots of free yoga & pilates classes, children's yoga, demonstrations and lectures from interesting teachers. For full information regarding the programme and ticket prices, please visit the YOGA Show website .

Urdhva dandasana , originally uploaded by yogamama.co.uk . Urdhva dandasana - Upstaff posture.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha

All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them. Dalai Lama

Here is an amusing account of one of my friend's experience with yoga, which she originally published on her own blog, Family Affairs. Coincidentally, the yoga teacher with the yoga logo on the side of the car and trying hard not to get stressed out by the traffic was yours truly. :o) Yesterday, I went to a yoga class with a girlfriend who is a yoga teacher. She drove and we were running really late, but because she's got her yoga logo on the side of her car so she had to try really hard not to get stressed - drivers of cars with yoga logo's on the side must not, under any circumstances succumb to road rage. I am so rubbish at yoga it's ridiculous. My friend's 19 year old daughter came too and she and I went right to the back in an effort to be ignored. You need such strength and discipline. Some of the moves involved lifting your body off the mat with your arms and swinging your legs underneath you to the back. Not a hope in hell of doing that. Then we had to do

Here is a video of Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) performing Morning Has Broken live on German television in the mid 70's. I find the song, which was originally a Christian hymn, quite uplifting. Enjoy! PS: Just love the afro on the guy playing the piano!

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself. Nelson Mandela

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other. Gandhi

Half handstand , originally uploaded by yogamama.co.uk . Half handstand

The mind may also be calmed by expulsion and retention of the breath. Pattanjali