Self Comes to Mind
Antonio Damasio’s Self Comes to Mind What I found so fascinating about this book was Damasio’s idea that our self evolved first of all as a clever way to organise information from the body and respond to it effectively. A self begins to consciously experience the...
Dyana’s Author Page on Amazon
Great news! After enormous wrestling with Amazon and CreateSpace and Kindle and IngramSpark – yes, they’re all involved in some way or another – we finally have an Amazon Author Page for Dyana which, finally, collects her two books properly! So head on over to...
Book Two: Buddha and A Boat
Digging into the mystery when life gets sticky. Alice, Roger and Cornelius set sail from Fiji for Vanuatu and New Caledonia and the adventure and excitement continues. They share watches through the day and night, cope with seasickness, struggle with headwinds, and...
Book One: The Yoga of Sailing
Leaping free from the world into spiritual experience. A romp with Alice, her daughter Emily and father Roger, on a sailing adventure through the Pacific. Sailing is the protagonist of the story, the sails, the sea, the winds and the destination. While Emily is...
Anchors in an Open Sea trilogy
Sailing into the full catastrophe of living. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be driven by an overwhelming desire for spiritual experience most of your life? Explore with Alice through thirty tumultuous years, cycling, tramping, sailing, making love, sitting...
The desire to understand self and mind
Fly over any city and see millions of people doing much the same thing in much the same way. The house may be large or small, expensive or cheap, but the desires and pressures and options will be similar. Fly over any Pacific island and the lives below are very...
Sailing adventure and spiritual autobiography
Sailing – a life on the ocean that can be like extreme sports, before the term was invented. Alice enjoys sailing, the thrill, the exhilarating physicality of the tug of war with nature. That’s with nature, not against it, because Alice feels more in tune with the sea...
Cycling around East Cape: the possibility of experience as a miracle
East cape was a landscape of silvery-leaved pohutukawas, grand old puriris, rocky coves and dark blue water. I was cycling in the middle of summer, a pleasure not for the fainthearted. On big hills I pushed my bike up through sticky tar that glowed black jewels and...
Speciality Yoga Workshops in Auckland
From Therapeutic Yoga to Meditation, and from Restorative to Anatomy & Physiology, the Centre for Integrated Yoga Studies will offer weekly, weekend and intensive workshops throughout the year. Looking ahead: Monday classes from August 17 10am-12 noon: Anatomy...Just Published! Spiritual autobiographies by Dyana Wells
The Yoga of Sailing and Buddha and a Boat are now available for purchase.
Volume One of the Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy
The Yoga of Sailing: What drives the desire for spiritual experiences? This and many other questions are explored by Alice and her family.
Volume Two of the Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy
Buddha and a Boat: What is this human life? Digging into the mystery when life gets sticky.
