Yoga seminars in the Dechmont Memorial Hall began some 15 years ago, instituted and taught by Yoga Jayanti (Jane Russell) until 2017, when she went to live in Portugal. Since then Yoga Jayanti's regular attenders have by consensus kept the seminars going as often as possible.  Essentially we are a group of Yoga Jayanti's friends and students who just want to carry on meeting regularly, enjoying  one another's company, devotion to yoga,  and practices including asanas, pranayama, yoga nidra (especially yoga nidra!) and meditation.

For the autumn of 2019 the theme will be Pranayama and neuroscience, four linked sessions in September, October, November and December.

There is almost certainly a connection between the (hopefully successful) surgery I had in May 2019 for the removal of a meningioma, a tumour involving the meningeal covering of the brain.  Naturally I have been revising my knowledge of the brain and nervous system and finding...