Building Resilience
I love the notion that this episode of confinement will cease and that the old life will resume. But it’s unlikely that will occur and we’re probably all aware of that now (even if we are slightly hankering after the […]
Yoga & Movement
Why Yoga?
Because yoga is about finding stillness. It isn’t, actually, about acrobatics on the mat. And not even downward dogs or vinyasa flows. But the practice on the mat is good – no excellent! – preparatory work. It facilitates us arriving […]
Taking a tour…
…of the spine. Have you ever had pain in your body, and felt helpless to help yourself and limited with ‘what to do’?! Have you ever googled your aches and pains to better understand what’s amiss…and what you ought to […]
The cold hard facts
Facts. They’re banded about willy-nilly, and increasingly so it seems (what with so many experts here, there and everywhere! ; ) And yet, who’s really got The Facts up their sleeve…? Science?! Does ‘Science’ have the facts? I’m not so […]
Do you have a reason?
Do you know why you go to yoga? Do you have a reason…? Maybe it’s because you feel ‘better’ after you’ve been there…? (On understanding the effects that yoga has on the body and mind, I would suggest that this […]
Conquering the king
The head stand. The ‘king of the postures’! In truth, the headstand had never been a part of my daily practice because I’d always been a little bit afraid of it. Or more accurately, I’d been more afraid of hurting […]
Two ends of a spectrum
Everything lies somewhere on a spectrum. And really, it’s only our own perspective that determines where we pitch ourselves on each spectrum and how much importance we place on that point! I recently went to two yoga classes at the […]
Constantly on the move…
One of the greatest gifts that the 21st century has so far been unfolding is a greater amount of personal (and collective) awareness. Think, mindfulness for mental awareness. Think yoga for physical awareness… Think the plastic campaign for environmental awareness, […]
My two feet can’t find a way…
Dancing : a great big high for the whole system! Wow. It just about does everything – lifts the spirit, gets your heart rate up, gets the happy hormones circulating a good’un and it moves your body. It makes us […]
Avenues for luck
We have a phrase in our household which is ‘increase your avenues for luck’. Luck, in this instance is to be understood as doing as much of the groundwork as possible and then allowing the desired situation to unfold… (or, […]