Has yoga changed shape for you too since the P? Everywhere I look I see a different landscape when it comes to looking at all things yogic. Recently I read an email from a top online provider saying ‘did we know that older adults with hip fractures are 3-4 times more likely to die within…
How has the year begun for you? In hope or with despair? In equal measure perhaps? It’s fine to have both. To me they are Yin and Yang. It takes being in despair to remember there is still hope….
Renewals and Aspirations for the New Year seem so much more palatable than the word resolution, which to me implies this has already been resolved! I’ve never liked the idea of making up goals which I know deep down are unachievable. Year after year we are reminded to think of a list of things. A…
Projection and re-enaction are two of the ways our minds work. Projecting into the future and wishing to re-enact or live our past lives. If only it were possible. Which would you choose if it were possible? My Yin Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training in 2019 pre-covid How often do you hear, or even say, I…
Autumn feels like a sobering time, colours changing, leaves falling…the dread of what lies ahead in the colder months ahead within a world not at peace. Then this suddenly appears one night completely unexpected whilst out walking my dog. I’m uplifted and excited for a time. I’ve been to Iceland and not seen such a…
For part 1…. read here Seems to me the more I stay around in this yoga world and the more I read about other yogis journeys, that most of us have come across a time when we just want to ditch the whole yoga thing and find inspiration elsewhere. But where? Coming back to our…
At school we didn’t get to choose the teachers we liked. We were lucky if a particular teacher resonated with us and then we often thrived in the subject because the teacher brought life into that subject helping us to pay better attention. We all remember those teachers and more importantly the subject. The energy…
SERIES 1: CLASS 3 YIN YOGA – MONTHLY WORKSHOPS Stretching the Quads safely in Yin Yoga APRIL 30th TUESDAY at 6pm GMT includes notes + recording “Practicing Yin with safety and ease” Our poor knees! They are the most stressed joint in the body and are not supposed to be taxed for hours on end in…
Look after your hips! Especially in yoga. Everyone knows someone who has had a hip ‘issue’ whether it be a labral tear, impingement or a hip replacement. The most famous person I can think of in recent sports history is of course Andy Murray. Can we ever return to our former movement patterns or become…
