Masterclass: Integration or Separation?

Class recently started with an impromptu discussion about the idea of a ‘masterclass’. I was really surprised by the overwhelming negative reaction to the word: a few eyes to the sky, a few frowns, the words ‘more money’, and I am sure I heard a dismissive ‘tut’. Read More

Yoga away from home

I’m away from home for a few weeks — lucky me! But taking a break away doesn’t mean a holiday from my Yoga practice. Friends tell me how worthy I am to travel with a Yoga mat, but actually I just love practising Yoga when I’m away! A new environment is a great way of refreshing my practice, getting out of old habits and routines, and trying some new things. Read More

How Hot Yoga cured my bad back: A journey from back surgery to full health with the Hot 26

An Osteopath with a bad back is a poor advert, but due to bad sinuses and daily sneezing fits I acquired a weak low back and my job wasn’t helping. In 2009 something finally gave: it was L5/S1 prolapse disc, requiring surgery and 4 months off work to recover - eeek! Read More

Yoga for Mums

With Mother’s Day around the corner I thought it would be good to write a post about a question we get asked a lot: What is the right Yoga class for a busy, and probably exhausted Mum? Read More

Taking time to slow down and explore

Why practise the slower forms of Yoga such as hatha, yin, restorative and the slower flows? Many of us prefer the quicker, more intense and heating forms of practice. Once upon a time I was an ashtanga teacher, and the quieter forms of Yoga rarely got a look in. Then I discovered the benefits of taking my time, with more space to explore both the detail of the practice and the inner world which is discovered extensively through attention to the breath. Read More

Healing through the Hot 26

I have had arthritis for over 40 years, mostly psoriasis, but in May 2015 it blew up into Rheumatoid Arthritis. By that November I could hardly walk and had to give up employment. In January 2016 I was retired on grounds of ill health. I faced a future bound to my home except going out in a wheelchair and having my home modified - this was truly my life coming to an end. Read More

New year’s resolutions or not…

With the start of every new year, the papers, social media, anything that requires marketing of some sort focuses on telling you to set new year’s resolutions. How many of us have said on the 1st Jan I’m going to stop eating chocolate, quit smoking, eat healthier, exercise more, lose weight, be less stressed, GET TO YOGA MORE! The list can be long… Read More

Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra literally means "yogic sleep," but that is a bit of a misnomer. The practice is not about falling asleep — though for beginners, that can often happen if we’re not used to slowing down so much and lying still! Rather Yoga Nidra is a meditation practice that draws us towards a place of consciousness that lies between sleeping and waking, that liminal state we might have already experienced where problems seem to melt away and we feel the simple joy of existing, without needing to do anything. Read More

How to keep your Yoga practice up during the holiday season!

It’s that time of year again. Less than a week to go till Christmas and everyone is busy meeting deadlines, finishing up school, socialising and Christmas shopping! When our diaries are full of extra activities it is sometimes hard to keep up a regular Yoga practice, and before you know it it's December 31st and you are vowing not to eat anymore celebrations chocolates or mince pies! Read More

Śavāsana

Have you seen those Yoga themed t-shirts with the slogan “I’m only here for the Śavāsana”? You too might love Śavāsana like this — or maybe you find it really hard or simply a bit boring. Śavāsana is something of a marmite Yoga pose — you love it or you hate it. Read More

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