Ruby 9 - Yoga, Chant, Stories

15/04/2026

Thoughts and Musings

“Stories are living things. They are viral. They enter us through our eyes and our ears and they take up residence inside us.”
Hugh Lupton

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14/04/2026

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I'd love to tell you a story, guide you through a yoga practice and teach you a little chant. Come and join me on Sunday

08/04/2026

Thoughts and Musings

"A ritual “fills you up”, Coupe says: “You are purposely choosing to do it because you want to, and you know that it’s going to stir something within you.” This also distinguishes rituals from superficial versions of “self-care” that require you to spend money."
Erin Coupe

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01/04/2026

Thoughts and Musings

I’ve come to crave the solitude and asceticism of these solo walks. There is no quieter place on earth than the third hour of a good long day of walking. It’s alone in this space, this walk-induced hypnosis, that the mind is finally able to receive the strange gifts and charities of the world.
I’ve come to realize the only true walk is the re-walk. You cannot know a place without returning. And even then, once isn’t enough. That’s why I’m back. Back on the Peninsula. Walking these roads I’ve walked before. It’s only through time and distance and effort — concerted, present effort, controlled attention, a gentle and steady gaze upon it all — that you begin to understand old connections, old wounds. That the shape of once-dark paths becomes clear. There’s a word in Japanese that sums up this feeling better than anything in English: yoyū. A word that somehow means: the excess provided when surrounded by a generous abundance. It can be applied to hearts, wallets, Sunday afternoons, and more… This extra space, this yoyū, this abundance… carried with it patience and — gasp — maybe even… love?
Craig Mod

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27/03/2026

What's the best way to find out what has been happening and what is about to happen?
Newsletters.
Here is my March newsletter!

Newsletter - March 2026

24/03/2026

Thoughts and Musings

“Why are you so afraid of yourself… of changing things? Try to detach yourself from yourself and try to see your own viewpoint from the outside, objectively. You are afraid of losing your balance. But change need not unbalance you; life’s not a static object, after all. It’s a process. There’s no holding still. Intellectually you know that, but emotionally you refuse it. Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life — evolution — the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy — existence itself — is essentially change… When things don’t change any longer, that’s the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is — and the more life.”
Ursula K Le Guin “ The Lathe of Heaven”

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22/03/2026

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21/03/2026

Stories are rich and delightful. They lead us to unexpected places.
Come and join me for an adventure that allows a story to lure us into a yoga practice combined with chant.

17/03/2026

Thoughts and Musings

"The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all. As Buddha says, Live like a mighty river."
- Ted Hughes, advice to his son Nicholas in a 1986 letter.

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16/03/2026

Here is my blog for March

The Art and Science of Sound

16/03/2026

I'd love you to join me for this awesome event. A story, a litlle chant and some yoga. What could be better!