The Return of the Infamous Yogabeats Club Night.
Come and enjoy and support two of the most important charities in the UK. ‘Youth At Risk’ and ‘Friends of the Elderly’.

The evening will include:

A 3 hour Yogabeats session with David Sye to music including a deep warm-up with Michele Pernetta.
An Indian dinner, drinks and tea, DJ, visuals, live percussion.
Other surprises…

Bikram Yoga Primrose Hill
200 Regents Park Road, NWI 8BE

Sunday, September 25th
6:30pm – 11:30pm

Cost: £50

To book call:020 7483 2000

Spaces are Limited

Most people around the world are aware of the recent urban rioting and civil unrest that raged across the UK.  I was asked if I would give my comments on the situation, so here is that interview.

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BIG LOVE SHOUT GOING OUT TO EVERYONE,

DAVID X

In the face of the importance we humans all place upon our intellectual prowess it is strange that I cannot recall having heard of the intellect ever stopping a war, nor feeding the hungry, or healing the sick; but a few good measures of simple human kindness added to the intellect does actually constitute a recipe called “intelligence” -  and it is the power of this alone that holds all our potentiality to heal this mental institution we think of as normal everyday life.

Recently I arrived back from Finland following an amazing whirlwind Yogabeats European tour.  Kicking off with my friends at The Jivamukti Centre in the springtime celebrating city of Munich, Germany, then via a plane connection in London and onto the extreme exotic contrasts of Marrakech/Morocco.  There I taught a private party of students who flew in from Switzerland, America, and England.  It was at the most beautiful boutique hotel environment I have ever had the pleasure to teach in, what a joy to be in North Africa and Yogabeats getting funky in 32 degrees. Wow!!

On the third day I was whisked off from Marrakech to London’s Gatwick Airport and made a dash by car to Heathrow Airport to catch a flight to Vienna where I met up with Karen Neumeyer (Yogabeats rep for Austria) and other Viennese friends, teaching some wonderful loyal students over the next two days before catching a 3 hour train trip to bring the Y.Bs “High” to my favourite Austrian city of Graz.  World-famous for Pumpkin oil (the sexiest and healthiest addition to any food on the planet, so I brought home LOADS!!!) Then it was a connecting flight via Berlin and I was back in evergreen Finland,  experiencing it for the first time without snow and with sun!!!

So now I am back here in London.  Happy just to be weeding and watering my overgrown garden, and attending to plants rather than my own species, which can be a blessed change for nature really is the greatest therapy, available 24/7, the healing effects of which sink deep within our psyche and being. Gardening like most things that I now centre myself around is an act of love (to myself), because the act of attending and making a difference to nature, as with people, or anything else, living for that matter is a guarantee that to one’s own personal and internal happiness, simply because happiness is a secondary act of making a difference to “others.” So if anyone asks “What is the true meaning of life?” You can be sure that they are experiencing a lack of love within their own lives simply because love IS ALL THE MEANINGS and without which there really is no real meaning at all.  It is then that we become plunged into the duality where all the material distractions become a goal in themselves and this is also the starting point for all negative addictions. If love (as scientists now term this subatomic glue of this universe) literally holds the molecular structures of our own bodies together, then how on earth can there exist any true satisfaction with anything less?!?

Peace,..DX  

Chocolate Yoga has been going down a storm in the world of Yogabeats lately…meditation, breathing techniques, soft music – and of course consumption of the finest cocoa – are used to teach practitioners to appreciate pleasure and experience happiness from within.  

We all know that Yoga relaxes and energises, but add some luscious raw chocolate into the mix and you have a truly blissful experience on your hands…observing this in practise over the past months, it came as no surprise to spot a bold claim [backed by scientific research in the Chemistry Central Journal] that ‘chocolate is a super-fruit’…the study showed that ‘chocolate is a rich source of antioxidants and contains more polyphenols and flavanols than fruit juice‘.

Lets be clear that not any old bar of chocolate is good for you – the study highlights that the healthy bit is the cocoa content, so choose wisely… 

So what’s Chocolate Yoga all about – it hardly seems a combination to maintain New Years resolutions?! Well it came into being when I noticed the exquisite sensations I experienced if I slowed down the consumption of a simple square of chocolate – it took me to a peak experience of internal joy.  

Human’s are hard wired for pleasure, whether it be from sex or food so we are only going against our true nature by abstaining from enjoyments. Chocolate Yoga teaches us to start loving ourselves, one piece at a time. To slow down, appreciate and break that vicious cycle of beating ourselves up over ‘succumbing’ to pleasure… 

To offer workshops all over the UK, we have partnered with Conscious Chocolate; a boutique range which is as healthy as it is luxurious. Each bar is free from gluten, dairy and pesticides. Sweetened naturally with agave nectar everyone, regardless of dietary requirements, can enjoy this range of delicious dark, raw, hand-made, hand-wrapped chocolates.  

The knowledge that chocolate can make us happy will surprise few…but that it can be healthy too may come as a fantastic revelation! See www.consciouschocolate.com and check the Yogabeats calendar for forthcoming workshops.