When We Look Back
What will we think when we look back on this time? Undoubtedly we’ll see that it was a pivotal year leading to shift…and on lots and lots of levels. Clearly we’ve all been affected in some way by the restrictions […]
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The World of Opportunity
The world has not been one of equal opportunity. We all know this, but we’ve allowed ourselves to be sufficiently blinkered to the stark evidence of this as we’ve been merrying away in the space of the ‘haves’. But now, […]
Why The Quiet?
When we’re constantly distracted – even by ‘good things’: sport, reading, listening…let alone the other things: social and its socially-expected appendages (ie booze!), soaps & boxsets, gaming and generally numbing out with non-stop scrolling and online shopping – we miss […]
Why Breathing?!
And well, why not!? It seems like a good starting point for living… But what about deep breathing? What about breathing deeply? It seems like we all know that the breath is essential for life, but how many of us […]
Where and how we move affects our running
It’s a curiosity really – if we move better, we’ll run better…and when we run better, we move better! How we move affects our running just as much (and possibly even more!) as our fitness. (Of course our fitness has […]
Conscious consumption
As the festive period rapidly approaches, one question I’ve been asking myself in the run-up to the holidays is ‘how consciously am I consuming?’… This question clearly has two, related, but separate strands – one is about the material goods […]
What’s your nature to nurture…?
The exceptionally sunny summer draws to a close, and as it does, the days feel different – the temperature has lost its heat, there’s an autumnal dampness in the air and the light has changed…the blues are deeper, the yellows […]
Our feminine and masculine traits
Understanding the masculine and feminine traits can help us to see how we’re driven. Masculine traits are those such as linear, order, angular and hard, external, head-driven and goal- focussed. Feminine traits are those such as rounded, chaotic (ever met […]
Coming back to balance
Among other life theories, I believe that we’re all ‘programmed’ (or ‘designed’ or however you believe that we function), to return to a place of balance. Or at least, that our actions will be balanced in one way or another. […]
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 […]