What is your favourite yoga posture and why? I love to lie down. Savasana is an important pose for me as I am someone who is constantly on the go and hopping from one project to the next without paying any real attention to how I am truly feeling. This pose makes me ‘check in’…Read more …
What is your favourite yoga posture and why? My favourite yoga pose is Dancing Shiva because it is a challenge but such a graceful pose and to me it embodies all that yoga is; a spiritual test of strength, balance and mind control. What made you take up yoga? I took up yoga because I…Read more …
What is your favourite yoga posture and why? Crow – because it is challenging, I feel real progress every time I try it and it has taught me that the mind can be as powerful as physical strength. What made you take up yoga? Initially I was intrigued, had heard that it was a good…Read more …
Although Yin has become more popular and people are taking about it more, I still get lots of questions asking what it actually is. It would be easy to write a long essay on this subject as there is so much to delve into so my challenge here is to write something brief and to…Read more …
The period between Christmas and New Year is often a time when we start to think ahead and create a mental list of New Year resolutions or goals for the forthcoming year. The problem we have here are that goals can be easily broken because they are so specific and ‘end’ focused. We become so…Read more …
You may have heard of the expression ‘to be in your body’ in relation to yoga and wondered what it’s all about. It’s not actually something you actively ‘do’ because the moment you think you are doing it, you are not ‘in’ your body. You can’t be in your body. It’s gone. It is for…Read more …
Vinyasa flow yoga is essentially about connecting breath with movement and this can be experienced at a very subtle level (there is always movement even within stillness), as well as on a more obvious physical level as part of a stronger flowing practice. The most appropriate form of breathing to accompany this type of practice…Read more …
Bhujangasana or cobra is honoured in a variety of ways in Indian mythology and the symbolism filters into many areas of our yoga practice too. Paying attention to this allows us to journey to a more subtle level in our practice and encourages us to face our fears. The snake itself is regarding as all-seeing,…Read more …
Why do we find ourselves seeking perfection in our yoga practice? Is that good? BKS Iyengar believes that it is good to have a goal of perfection and we should dream of it as it will encourage us to get better and better. He also feels, however, that we need to be careful though as…Read more …
Be prepared to fail in yoga; prepare to let the mind wander; prepare to forget to consciously breathe; prepare to fall over……just be prepared not to be perfect! There are endless ways you can ‘fail’ in your yoga practice so by embracing these thoughts when they arise and realising that we are all imperfect human…Read more …