Yoga for navigating change and uncertainty
As I go back to teaching in studios it is another transition in a time when the only constant seems to be change and uncertainty. I recognise that we have all had very different experiences…
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Lock down recipe – foraged wild garlic risotto.
As discussed before yoga class, here is my recipe for responsibly foraged wild garlic risotto! The recipe is an old one I found from Riverford foods and serves…
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Family Yoga in Lockdown
So it looks like this is for the long-haul … back to another period of home schooling. I realise how blessed we are to have a garden and to have walks on our doorstep. It…
Read MoreYoga and self care – radical roots.
“An empty lantern provides no light. Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to burn brightly” Wanting to take better care of ourselves physically and emotionally is one reason why people start yoga. This…
Read MoreMental Health Awareness Week – the Three Minute Breathing Space
As it is mental health awareness week I wanted to share some of the struggles I’ve had with anxiety and self doubt and a simple practice that can help as a coping strategy. I learned…
Read MoreYoga to prepare for meditation
Yoga has an inner aspect and an outer aspect. In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the classic text which sets out this system of the 8 limbs (similar to 8 stages or steps) of yoga, the outer…
Read MoreManaging Anxiety and Self Doubt with Yoga
I was a teacher in comprehensive schools for many years, and before that a dancer -both jobs that caused me a lot of angst and a sense of never being good enough. Then I became…
Read MoreSama Vritti breathing in yoga
There are so many yoga blogs about new year’s intentions that I am not going to add to those this year, but would like to talk about how yoga can help us to provide a…
Read MoreThe psoas muscle in Yoga
This month I have been focussing on the psoas muscle in all of my classes, but what is this muscle? In actual fact the psoas works so closely with another muscle, the iliacus that they…
Read MoreThe spaces between the breaths in yoga
For a while now in my yoga practice I have been working on a sense of “allowing” when I practice asana – this sense of using my physical practice as an exploration of where movement…
Read MoreBinding in yoga poses – explore your own alignment
Binding in yoga can be an interesting way to explore taking an asana practice to a next level. A bind can deepen the pose and its effects, particularly in twists. Postures in which binds are…
Read MoreSatya – Practicing yoga with honesty
Satya is the second of the Yamas from Patanjalis’s yoga sutras and translates as truthfulness or honesty. I have been exploring how we can bring Satya onto our yoga mats as well as into our…
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