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Classical Hatha Yoga in the Modern Age | Part 1

Published on Medium in Dec. 2019.

What is hatha and what is classical?

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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.

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Yoga All Day

Published on Medium in October, 2019.

Yoga all day.

How? Stretch your mind.

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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.

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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.

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Wall to Wall Green

Published in the Organic Gardener, Feb-March, 2020.

Building with rooftop gardens and living walls are part of a revolution to regreen our cities and homes and bring more nature into our lives. Helen Cushing tells how.

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Seeds of Change: the seed savers networks of the world

Published in Simply Living in November 1992.

I was pregnant with my second child. He was due in one week. Plenty of time to send this feature article to Sydney (on a CD by snail mail from Bellingen). Or so I thought. As I was writing, I went into labour. My son was born four hours later. I completed the article, but someone else wrote the practical box (:.

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Yuraygir National Park

Published by Out There magazine in Autumn, 1994. Out There was an adventure travel glossy edited by Lincoln Hall for the iconic outdoor equipment company, Paddy Pallin.

On the mid-north coast of NSW is a slither of national park running along a heavenly stretch of coastline, including the estuary of the Sandon River. A friend had built a wooden sailing dinghy. Three young families loaded up the kids and camping gear and set off to launch the new boat. Those were the days.

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Working through Winter

Published in Tasmanian Life in July, 2008.

As Gardening Editor for Tassie Life, I contributed a seasonal practical to each issue.

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Cafe Jardin - Wild Temptations

In the late 19th century, ‘plant hunters’ deliberately removed entire populations of orchids from their high altitude homes in the Andes and cut down cut down whole forests to collect epiphyte orchids from the canopy.