Fire From the Sun

In 2007 while studying to be a Bachelor of Music in the UK Stefan's wise older brother gifted two inspirational books. First, "The Miracle of Mindfulness" by Buddhist monk Thich Naht Hahn, on the beauty & simplicity of life with more awareness. From the first chapter the author encourages conscious breathing, a habit which remained with Stefan for the rest of the book and increasingly in life. The second was, of course a simple book on yoga and pranayama, a basic manual which he absorbed and passed on before remembering the title. Probably his first yoga instruction would then have been, "read this and then do it, it's great". Initially the practice was serving well as a cure to muscular pain from playing Soccer, Squash, Surfing, Rocking Out and doing Judo. After some short time he realised that the practice was not just relieving bodily aches and pains, but emotional suffering too. In those fleeting moments on the mat he started to notice peculiar s