Posts in Insight & Inform
Yoga & Negative Self-Talk

Yoga for many of us can be hard to get our head around in the beginning. Understanding the yogic language is hard enough - ‘root your feet to the earth’, ‘drop the tailbone’, ‘lift the heart up’, and some more flowery language, ‘smile your collarbones open’; no, I’ve never quite got that one either.

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Lockdown: Curbing Stress & Anxiety

Where to start. We are 8 weeks in, how are you feeling? Genuine question, feel free to reply, sound off, have a moan or simply to chat. Being in lockdown for many of us can exacerbate difficult feelings we may struggle with anyway and for others it’s possibly bringing up feelings of stress and anxiety that we are not used to. 

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Yoga Gymnastics - The Detrimental Pull of Social Media

Instagram. Love it. Hate it. A little bit of both actually.  

So when I read the BBC news article, ‘Yoga teachers risking serious hip problems', I wasn’t surprised.

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The Day I Was Told to Stop Practising Yoga

It was Wednesday 4 September. My world had crashed in.

‘You need to stop doing yoga.’

Those were the words I heard from a chiropractor I’d gone to see with some ongoing niggles.

It’s all I’ve known for the past 9 years both as a practitioner and teacher.

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