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.
Read MoreLife is always in transition. According to the teachings of Buddha life is comparable to a river. Continuously flowing and impermanent; the river of one moment is not the same as the river of the next moment.
Read MoreWhere 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.
Read MoreInstagram. 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.
Read MoreGoing on a yoga retreat might be the single best decision you make! Do you know why? Because it’s all about YOU and if that isn’t a good enough reason, I don’t know what is.
Read MoreIt 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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