This is an interesting time of year for me. I am not naturally a cold weather lover but I do enjoy the pleasure of turning inward, relaxing in a warm cozy home while the weather rages outside! I love melting into my mat during an indulgent yin or restorative practice even more during this quiet […]
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5 ways to be a better you
A follow on (or Om) from my last blog on change offers 4 simple ways we can improve our lives! No one is perfect, we all have beliefs or attitudes that don’t serve us in being the best possible version of us we can be. So here’s 4 simple ways to change for the better […]
How to make a new you
How to make a new you Even if you’re thinking ‘actually I am pretty happy with the old me’ we all have habits, attitudes and beliefs that need reviewing if not refreshing. We all have had experiences which have wired our body to react in a particular way to a stimulus. Then everytime we revisit […]
6 ways surgery helped me to slow down
When life brings us challenges there are many ways to face them. Now I am three months post-back operation I have learnt a few things about healing. On a positive note it is amazing to feel how much better my spine feels every week. I am totally in support of combining modern medicine and […]
3 ways to be truly happy
Scaffolding? What’s yours? What holds you together? For me it’s yoga, I teach it, practise, try to live it, read about it, learn from it and about it. I dream of doing it in beautiful places, of achieving longer breaths and pretty shapes, of easing into stretches & powerful balances. Yup yoga is my scaffolding. […]
2 ways to accept the bad weather with yoga
As some of you will know I nearly emigrated to California a couple of years ago, and I still hanker to live somewhere with a warmer climate! I am writing this on a damp, colourless August bank holiday which as I look out of my office window at the river, reminds me more of October […]
2 ways yoga helps you not be lonely
‘Have you ever felt alone in a crowded room? Have you ever smiled when inside you were crying with loneliness? We are less likely to feel like this when we learn to like the person we are alone with Although I love people I also love to be alone. To potter and to enjoy […]
4 ways to play with the energy of the Blue Moon
Blue Moon There are two definitions of an astronomical ‘blue moon’ and in neither of them does the moon look blue! The original definition of a Blue Moon is the third full Moon in an astronomical season with four full Moons. A normal year has four astronomical seasons – spring, summer, autumn, and winter – […]
Relaxing and healing better, with yoga
If you’ve been in class this week you may have heard me talking about Vagul tone. If you can easily access your relaxation response, your parasympathetic nervous system, then you have a better opportunity to heal. In recent weeks I have been focused upon healing as well as possible after surgery. However healing is […]
How yoga makes getting older easier
Midlife crisis. .not for me I hope as one would assume with all the looking inward & self-reflection that us yogis do helps to deal with any issues, way before they reach breaking point. However having a new decade on the horizon as I meet my fortieth birthday mid April this year has led me […]