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Autumn Blues

Autumn feels like a sobering time, colours changing, leaves falling…the dread of what lies ahead in the colder months ahead within a world not at peace. Then this suddenly appears one night completely unexpected whilst out walking my dog. I’m uplifted and excited for a time. I’ve been to Iceland and not seen such a…

Why I wrote my courses … part 1

At school we didn’t get to choose the teachers we liked. We were lucky if a particular teacher resonated with us and then we often thrived in the subject because the teacher brought life into that subject helping us to pay better attention. We all remember those teachers and more importantly the subject. The energy…

Preserving your hips in yoga

Look after your hips! Especially in yoga. Everyone knows someone who has had a hip ‘issue’ whether it be a labral tear, impingement or a hip replacement. The most famous person I can think of in recent sports history is of course Andy Murray. Can we ever return to our former movement patterns or become…

YIN MEDITATION Q+A MONTHLY

YIN YOGA CLASSES EVERY MONTH Spinal Extensions in Yin – Feb 27th at 6pm GMT (including recording) 90 MINUTE PRACTICE + TIME FOR Q+A   “Practicing Yin with safety and ease” For the first class in this new series we will  begin with how to warm up each section of the spinal column through Yin Yoga postures…

Want to ‘train’ your mind?

  Training your mind or your body? I felt this was an excellent article citing some case studies as well as the surgence somatic therapies are gaining with more weight to this alternative way of processing life’s many traumas and difficulties which none of us are immune from. If you get to the end of…

Can we grow our interoception? How?

Can we grow our interoception and why would it benefit us? If you remember your early foray into yoga you probably remember postures and movements you immediately gravitated towards and definitely remember those you dreaded. The signals ‘like/dislike’ were clear enough yet we learned to override them by following a set of rules about correct…

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