Is Yin Yoga a cooling practice? Yes it is! The experience however is always unique to the practitioner and is always relative to what pose you have chosen, how you have come into the pose and how you are navigating the moment to moment experience. When I was growing up in Singapore, my Chinese aunty would always offer me a ‘cooling’ drink when we…
When we go to watch a movie or watch a documentary, we come away if it is over 2 hours long and say ‘that was a long movie’. Somehow in the world of education, courses have had to be condensed into intensives over a period of several days and in particular with yoga trainings, the…
We implemented a credit card facility and absorb these fees now so that students organise their own finance and don’t currently have a way to split credit card payments and track them as purchases for all online courses are final. The only way to split a fee is to request to do this manually by…
And then there is also the wind from our guts! Anyone who has been for a general anaesthetic also knows that they have a lot of excess air trapped in their systems and it is mighty uncomfortable. My first real experience of this was when I went into premature labour as a result of a…
Let’s talk about props in Yin Yoga. Reaching for a soft smooshy blanket, bolster or eye pillow doesn’t mean we are suddenly ’doing’ restorative yoga. We might be protecting a fragile joint or we might be shifting the locus of sensation to the intended target area, thereby intensifying the stress in the area the pose…
How did we go from this, to an unimaginary world online? No one has ever been a number to me. I remember names and faces etched in my memory and the ongoing continuity of feedback from the follow up assignments, communication on line in our groups, hearing of each experience in reflection based writing is…
What do you find helps you to keep active? Gardening, painting, yoga, walking, dancing….. what else? It doesn’t need to be complicated. I think it’s more important that we enjoy the satisfaction after that we have ‘done something’. Increasing evidence suggests that exercise can protect your brain as you age, from helping with midlife forgetfulness…
Not sure I will be sprinting but I love to walk, cycle and dance. Maybe you’d enjoy trying though while it’s still warm weather. Three ways to train like an Olympic sprinter By Mark Bailey, HEALTH WRITER London-based sprinter Imani-Lara Lansiquot, who was part of Team GB’s 4×100m relay team, follows a high-intensity workout regime of…
I loved reading this! Why chocolate is the perfect pre-workout snack Good news for those with a sweet tooth – new research has found that chocolate could be the ideal pre-exercise snack. The researchers discovered that a compound in cocoa increases blood flow and makes exercising easier due to a faster uptake of oxygen. The…
Years ago in my 40s when I was living in Singapore, I marvelled enviously at the women who suddenly started entering triathlons or marathons. It seemed to be a thing once women hit a certain age. I wished I could run too but it was something I had a love hate relationship with. I remember…
