Are the yoga texts relevant or is yoga just shapes on the mat?

Since the early 2000’s a yoga industry has boomed. Yoga is everywhere. 

I am not going to do a book review, but I will share some of my thoughts after attending an event with the author Daniel Simpson to talk about his book, The truth of yoga. Along with a small group of yoga teachers...

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Moving on, Mindfully.

A lovely student of mine has packed up, and sold from her home of 30 years and has moved to Scotland. Choosing to rent for a few weeks in an air b+b and taking time to adjust and make decisions.

Having had the experience of the big down size myself and selling my family home I understand about...

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KEEP GOING - tips and inspiration post January.

 We are getting to the end of January and I am wondering how those new year habits have been going. 

Dry January and Veganuary are just two that seems to be now an accepted norm. 

Everyone knows I love good habits and am all for giving it a go and the tweaking to accommodate our...

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New Moves for 2023

New morning, new day, new year, do something new today, even if it’s a not seen, a new thought or a new dream is a new start. Happy new you.

One upon a time back in 2019 I had this amazing year of travel. I choose to follow my dreams to travel frequently and carry out my intention of taking...

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Looking for Sleep, please read this lovely review.

It is always an honour when I am asked to help someone find sleep. Its essential to our whole sense of well bing and more often than not easier restore our relationship with sleep thats we think. Making time to  think about our actions and habits around sleep and then find a way forward...

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS - Holiday time is a mindset, right?

it seems that holiday time is all the time these days. So why not just go for it and make time to enjoy each day as if you were on holiday. 

Its a mindset isn't it?

The VIA Institute on Character has a test to find out what your top character strengths are and how you can use these in every...

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RETURNING TO A MORNING PRACTICE, JUST FOR MYSELF BUT SHARED WITH OTHERS

 

I started going to yoga classes in my mid twenties and was encouraged by my teacher to join a teacher training course very early on in my journey. I had a back ground in dance and I think he saw that I could at least do some of the postures reasonably well.

But yoga is not really about...

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Thoughts are real, right? How the yoga sutras of Patanjali can help us to understand mindfulness.

One of the first things that people say when they start to practice mindfulness is that thoughts are real.

To offer some help on this and as ever in yoga I turn to Patanjali and the yoga sutras.

You could say that the yoga sutras is in total a self help book, the original one.

Patanjai...

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Is a bad mood a bad thing?

I always state in my mindfulness class that this is a practice of acceptance, its not about perfection.

I often ask the question do we prepare for mindfulness or are we being mindful.

There is no perfection on this, only knowing. 

Thanks to my students in class this week for sharing so much...

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Mindful Breathing and Resilience

There is now a lot of evidence based science around the benefits of breathing, which in its self sounds crazy because breath is life. It is the one thing that we all do. 

One of the things that my yoga teacher said that got me hooked on yoga was a Chinese saying that he repeated, something...

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A Question of time

WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR 2022

A QUESTION OF TIME 

So here we are at the beginning of  2022 and I am on my way into central London for my first day of work meetings and a  bit of  skive in waterstones book shop, on Piccadilly. They are playing 30's Jazz and it seems rude not to...

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Why Journal? The power of putting pen to paper.

I first started writing a journal when I was pregnant with my daughter almost 30 years ago.

Wanted to record my feelings whilst pregnant, the changes that were happening to my body and myself. It was an opportunity to reflect and capture a moment in time. 

I was also studying to teach yoga...

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