MatChat with Mina Blair Mina Blair

It's a popular cliché, "it's about the journey and not the destination", but is this true? What is more important, the getting there or arriving at the endpoint? Fellow yogini Debs Albon and I found ourselves inadvertently answering this question on a trekking trip to Nepal a few weeks ago, and concluded that it is most definitely about the journey!We had booked the trip with the intention of seeing and honouring the mighty Himalayas and chose the Annapurna Sanctuary trek route. W...

I am going solo this time to talk about one of my favourite yogic principles: surrender. I have learned to love this word and apply this principle to my life, which has not been without challenge given the fact it has such negative connotations in the West. Because surrender is something we want to avoid at all costs, isn't it? It means defeat, losing, weakness, giving in or up.Not so! Interestingly, in the yogic tradition that is thousands of years old, surrender is a...

What is the common thread that runs through every human culture through the millenia? It's so simple: gathering around a fire, sharing food, sharing stories and singing. A practice of collective sharing that connects and binds us together as sentient beings. Dropping into the modern world, in some places this tradition has been lost, largely in the West. You will find group singing in school/church/professional choirs of course, but not as a regular activity for ...

Have you had moments in your life when you just knew in your heart that a decision was right? Even though perhaps it seemed like a risk at the time and the outcome was uncertain? This is called a leap of faith, and in my experience, these decisions are the most rewarding.I took a leap of faith this year that inviting a friend I had met online, but not in person, on a trip to Bali was going to be great and it was in fact more! Kalina and I got in touch through a 300 hour adva...

We are obsessed with our identifiers, aren't we? We think that who we are, our personality/identity, are things like our work status, relationship status, family role, gender, race, nationality, physical attributes, religious beliefs, political views etc etc. But this is not the whole picture because there is more - we are more than what our egoic mind is telling us.So I'm diving into the ancient yogic scriptures with fellow yoga teacher Debs Albon to find out what wisdom is offer...

I'm back on the mat with radio host, podcaster and therapist Baruch Zeichner to reflect on this transitional phase the world finds itself in at the moment. And part of this journey is our collective face off with the dark side of humanity. We are having to stare at the results of what happens when all we can comprehend and accept is the individual perspective. When the ego I-ness is the only point of reference.We're chatting about:How fear is the main driver of behaviour and...