How to… Sleep Soundly
We all know that quality of sleep the night before can have a huge influence of how we feel and behave the next day. On average, humans spend nearly two-thirds of their lives asleep and this is time well spent. … Continued
Exercises to Support Thyroid Function
Our energy and vitality are bound up in optimal function of a small, but important gland in our throat. Whether you have been diagnosed with a specific thyroid condition or simply feel sluggish and have difficulty losing weight, supporting the … Continued
How to… Stay Calm
First published at Yogamatters.com Finding calm in life can seem more and more elusive in our busy, often oversubscribed lives. Our expectation of how much information we can take in and how much we achieve is often at odds with … Continued
De-Stress Yoga: Your Core Starts at Your Feet
Your Core is Not Just Your Abs There’s lots of talk of core strength and core stability and even equating particular yoga postures and practices to ‘core work’. It’s interesting then to notice that this is a very modern phenomenon … Continued
Om Magazine Article: The Eyes Have It…
Noticing our gaze and the quality of our visual attention offers us great insight into our present being and state of mind-body. Where our eyes are traveling to, what they may be fixating on and where they tend to rest … Continued
Getting Your Elasticity Back
Understanding how we can move from a sense of our whole bodies, not just separate muscles, bones and joints can help us reclaim as sense of whole when we might feel fragmented, segmented or disconnected. Woven throughout the whole of … Continued
Exercises for Cross-Lateral Connectivity
Strengthening brain and body responses If you’ve ever tried patting your head with one hand, whilst rubbing circles on your belly with the other, you’ll have experienced cross-lateral (CL) connectivity. The nervous communication that is in play for you to … Continued
12 Signs You’re Heading for a Breakdown
We live in a fast-paced world, with many expectations placed on us by others and from our own need for continual achievement. We all have bad days, when things seem overwhelming, we just want to hide away and we can’t … Continued
What is Grounding?
The term ‘grounding’ is often used in yoga classes and in relation to any activity that helps to draw us into a sense of the present moment. But what does grounding actually mean? What qualities and physical attributes make grounding … Continued
Why We Do Child’s Pose
Child pose or Balasana is a pose featured many, many times in most yoga sequences and for very good reason. Its name comes from replicating the foetal position that you evolved with in the womb. That curling up of knees … Continued