I’ll admit that I can become disgruntled with the every increasing commercialisation and misrepresentation of yoga. The need for tight expensive activewear that creates anxiety before you’ve even stepped on to the mat for example. I’ve had people tell me how much they want to try yoga but they’re too scared to go to a …
Recently I ran a workshop on creating your own practice. I enthusiastically handed out class plan templates and started to run through my presentation when I began to notice a whole lot of silence. As I looked around the room I saw a look of unease on some of my students’ faces. “What’s going on …
I’m really looking forward to 2019, it feels like a year of change and I’m hoping the energy and work so many of us put into 2018 will come to fruition. In celebration of the new year I’m not making any New Year’s resolutions. I’m going to fight the urge to be doing more. Well, …
Let’s start at the beginning, what is trauma? Here’s one definition, “Trauma arises when one’s human immobility responses do not resolve: that is, when one cannot make the transition back to normal life, and the immobility reaction becomes chronically coupled with fear and other intense negative emotions such as dread, revulsion and helplessness. The physical …
80% of success is showing up – Woody Allen. Here you are – showing up. If you are here, then you are interested, at least, in finding out more about yoga. Perhaps you are an experienced yoga practitioner looking for a class or just plain curious. No matter. Yoga is about showing up, it’s about doing …
Many times people tell me that they want to start a yoga practice but will do it: “When I lose weight” or “Find some yoga clothes I look good in” or “Have more flexibility”. None of these things matter to yoga. Perhaps we are becoming conditioned to ‘Instagram’ yoga, which while beautiful and at times …
Happiness is not getting what you want, but wanting what you have got. Pamela Allen. We live in a world filled with images and ideas of how we should look, dress, behave and think, and nowhere is this menu of judgement more powerfully felt than in the world of the teenager. It comes as no …