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I’m in a portrait exhibition!
Discovering SoHo is a project of photographer Paul County. With funding from Hobart City Council and South Hobart Progress Assoc., Paul set about photographing and telling the stories of a selection of South Hobart residents.
I was selected and worked with Paul to set up a portrait which expresses something fundamental about me and my relationship to books and writing.
The portraits are displayed in local cafes and online.
(Look closely at the book cover - I’m there in miniature in the middle).
Heroes of Peace
Produced by Ryan Walsh and Helen Cushing in 2015.
An award winning documentary about four war veterans who transformed trauma into hope and healing through yoga and meditation.
Samskaras: Impressions of Light and Shadow
Published on Medium in February, 2020.
What are samskaras? It’s a Sanskrit word which underlies the psychology of yoga. My writings on yoga are based on fifty years of practice, twenty years of teaching and two years living in a yoga ashram in India.
Classical Hatha Yoga in the Modern Age | Part 1
Published on Medium in Dec. 2019.
What is hatha and what is classical?
Classical Hatha Yoga in the Modern Age | Part 2 | Asanas
Published on Medium in February, 2020.
Asanas are the gateway to yoga. Their place within the culture of yoga, however, is often misunderstood. My writings on yoga are based on fifty years of practice, twenty years of teaching and two years living in a yoga ashram in India.
Hope: How Yoga Heals the Scars of Trauma
Published by Ganges Yoga, 2016. Foreword by Petrea King.
Hope is based on experience I gained from a decade of teaching yoga to Australian war veterans, and refugees from several countries. I also visited colleagues in Colombia who are providing yoga to demobilised guerilla and paramilitary fighters, war victims and others affected by war, with exceptional results.
Yoga Day by Day: a guide to holistic practices for healthy living
Published by Swan Yoga Publications, 2009.
I wrote Yoga Day by Day in an obscure upstairs corner of a cafe while my son was at Kung Fu lessons. But that’s not really the point.
Ashram on the Ganges in Three Parts
Published in Meniscus Literary Journal vol 9. no 1, 2021.
These flash pieces are a collage of vignettes from the years I spent visiting and living in a yoga ashram in India.
Peace Profile: Dunna
I wrote this after completeing a Graduate Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies. It’s a profile of an organisation in Colombia called Dunna, run by my brilliant peacebuilding/yoga colleagues.
In Colombia, a land that knows too well the price of war, a bold compassionate peace building goal is becoming a reality…
Easing the Pain
Published in the Hobart Mercury, 2015. This is about me (not by me) and my work teaching yoga to war veterans and others with post traumatic stress.
Yoga teacher, Helen Cushing, 54, of South Hobart, uses the practice to help returned war veterans deal with trauma-related issues.
From War to Peace
Published in Australian Yoga Life, 2009.
The Tasmanian’s War Veterans’ yoga group met weekly from 1992 - 2023. In this article I tell the story of how yoga transformed lives that were shattered by war.