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By CK Patel: My old learning techniques weren’t working. Conventional golf coaching wasn’t helping. I was getting frustrated and feeling stuck. How could I translate what my brain wanted to achieve into my body? Read More
By Caroline Gozzi: I don’t suffer from back pain anymore, I haven’t for years. I never had surgery, I don’t take medication to manage pain, I am not ‘careful' in how I use my body. What healed me, was not doing less, but doing more. Read More
By Cate Valentine: ‘Aren’t Hot 26 teachers usually thinner?’ a student asked me while I was setting up to teach. I answered her truthfully: compared to how I looked when I joined YogaVenue I am thinner! But more importantly I am happier and healthier than I was when I first walked through the doors. If I were questioned directly about my body or my weight five years ago it would have destroyed me. Now I am grateful to the student who posed the question because it has helped me recognise that I am a different person now. Read More
By Caroline Gozzi: Can Yoga help with the treatment of Long Covid? We’ve had several people return to the studio experiencing Long Covid and looking to incorporate yoga in their path to recovery. There have also been several articles in the press regarding how Yoga can be extremely beneficial for those suffering from Long Covid. So, what is the best Yoga practice to help with the management of long covid? Read More
By Katie Phelps: As the days begin to get longer, leaves unfurl and the sunshine grows warmer, I’ve started to feel a low hum of springtime energy. It’s definitely more muted this year, dampened by the exhaustion we’ve all felt after living with our nervous systems on high alert for a year. But like this primal response to stress, the pull of spring, the desire for lightness and clarity seem similarly hard-wired; almost despite ourselves we start clearing out clutter, opening windows wider, organising our sock drawers...or at least recognising the desire to do those things. Read More
By Emma Wykes: My yoga mat is not just a piece a rectangle piece of rubber. It’s not just the space for me to do my practice on. In the last year of lock down it has been so much more. It’s a magic carpet, a time travelling magic carpet. Read More
By Emily Ross: We all experience worry and stress at some point in our lives. The sensation of anxiety -those butterflies in the stomach, tightening of the throat, the loss of ability to focus on anything other than the experience of worry - is the brain’s natural response to a perceived threat. Read More
By Caroline Gozzi: The other day I had the hardest Hot 26 class in a long time, I felt horrible, hot, thirsty, sick, stiff, and annoyed because I kept falling out of postures. I wanted the class to end, I didn't want to be there. Why did this happen? Why did I have such a Read More
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