Patrick Ryan

Patrick Ryan

20 years of practicing Yoga, Taiji and Body Awareness exercises will have given me something of the art to pass on to you. I will help you transform your life with these ancient practices.

The limbs of a eucalypt tree.

It may be the same for many trees. But it is certainly true of these ancient living beings. There are two types of branches, they either grow out and survive for seasons or years or they reach out and fall…

The rising sun has purpose.

The elements of the morning are beautiful as the planet rotates and brings the warmth of the grand fire in the sky across the metallic looking water of the great ocean. The air had a wind that was soft and…

Starting Yoga.

Here’s how to start. Yoga for beginners and experienced. Here are five yoga tips for everybody. One: Focus on the breath as the body moves. Two: Let the breath envelop the movement so that the breath starts before the movement…

Snakes and ladders

In Taiji sometimes because of the accuracy and self-analysis involved it is easy to think that your practice is either correct or incorrect. There is good reason to think that a dualistic thought process is the way. In modern society,…

Asana; shavasana, pranayama.

Asana when combined with the principles of Krishnamacharya will relax the body, and pranayama will relax the mind. Being patient with both asana and and pranayama will expose the fruits of your work, because there is a little effort required,…

Breathing into the breath.

Even when we think we understand one of the most important principles of Yoga, that; the movement of the body is the movement of the breath, and the movement of the breath is the movement of the body. There is…

Yoga courses Intro

Yoga; body, breath and movement, to create intimacy and connection. Valuable lessons to get to the heart, the thridhya, to bridge the mind and the body with the breath. If you can breath, there is a yoga for you. If…

As free as a bird

The day was starting beautifully with no wind and a slight mist around the hills, the birds were very excited. And the red bottlebrush trees getting ready to come into full bloom, the paperbark trees were happy with the magpies…

The importance of the silver lining.

The rising sun shoots golden rays directly to us. From the source that gives us life, provides beauty, we see big sunrises of enriching clouds drifting, and vast sunset of cloudless skies. Each one is different for the subtlety. Each…