30/05/2023
It was great to lunch last week with longtime friend, poet, yogi and occasional mentor Robert Hughes. We hadn't seen each other for 15 years. He was director of the Footscray Community Arts Centre 45 years ago when I asked him: "There's something different about you ... what is it?"
"I couldn't do it without yoga, Ron,," he said, and that was my introduction to the Yoga Education Centre in Prahran, led by the late Sri Vijayadev Yogendra, from Mumbai. I attended weekly meditation sessions and Vijay's monthly teachings for about seven years, before the centre moved to Warwick, Qld. My first teacher there was Michael Myer (son of Sir Ken) of the Myer emporium family. So it was great to learn that Robert Hughes, looking younger than his 77 years, still practises yoga and meditation for 90 minutes every morning. Hari Om, Robert