So we all know that yoga helps develop our intuition right? Intuition is more body-based than mind-based and as we become more sensitive to our bodies, it follows we’ll be more open to our intuition. Yoga helps me get more in tune with those subtle sensations because it’s all about using the same perception muscles I do when I’m playing my edge in Warrior 2.

I was listening to the Carolyn Myss seminar on CD that she did with Wayne Dyer and she’s fabulous ‘live’. Her books are good but she really comes through as a speaker. She’s funny as hell and very down-to-earth, I highly recommend it. She said something about intuition that really struck me on that CD. She says - intuition requires courage. And that courage is really the muscle you use to exercise your intuition and if you do, you’ll get more of it.

When I teach I try to be open to any intuitive nudges because I’m there to provide a service but don’t always logically know what’s needed. In class one day as everyone got in Svasana, I noticed my friend’s feet were kind of glowing out of the corner of my eye. I was going to walk by but couldn’t, I just had to give them a rub. I touched her feet and although she’s not big on being touched, she nodded it was ok.

She told me later that after class she was going to hear the vet’s diagnosis for her dog that she’s had for 15 years. It was bad news, he died a few days later of a tumour and it was very hard for her. So I was glad I had followed that bit of intuition. But will I have the courage when it’s not a friend? It was easy with her, but how can I be that open regardless of who it is? Only time will tell.