You and your mind: What does yoga have to say on this?

“The Workings of the Mind workshop was so helpful, and applicable both to my yoga practice and daily life. This was the perfect time in my life that I needed it. Annie was lovely, and made this difficult subject so accessible. Thank you!!”
— Melanie Herchoz, student of Workings of the Mind workshop, May 2014

Ask anyone if they think their mind is important, and the chances are they'll say yes.

Ask them to tell you more than that - what the mind is, where it is, how it works, and things start to get a little... fuzzy.

We all have this thing, this mind, that we agree is important, that has a massive influence on our choices, relationships, careers, perspective, happiness, whole lives. And yet many of us hardly know a thing about it. It's time to start exploring – What is this “Mind” which is completely directing us, how do we make sure that it’s our best possible guide, am "I" separate from my mind, and what are the implications of all this??

Only once we've started to sit with questions like these can we get in to the deeper question of who we even are.  

These are some of life’s biggest questions. Even modern neuroscience is still only scratching the surface, and increasingly is coming to yoga to co-discover just what the mind capable of. Because it this stuff, not whether you can do a handstand, that is the heart of yoga.

This workshop is an accessible, engaging look at how the Yoga tradition explains the mind, how the practice can make you a happier and kinder person, and why citta vritti nirodhah -- stilling the fluctuations of the mind -- is what all this is ultimately guiding us towards.