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 MoreWhy the procrastination? Said with tongue firmly in cheek as I always had a reason not to start.
I knew for a long time meditation would play an intrinsic role in my life and for a long time a little voice would tell me it was what I needed to do but I kept batting it away. There’s no time for goodness sake! I decided to stop ignoring the voice that kept whispering and I embarked on my meditation journey at the beginning of 2015.
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