It can seem relaxing to take a mini-break and “have a scroll”. Spending time catching up with all the news from your social networks or news sources. But it isn’t truly relaxing. Staring at the shiny screens. Getting lured by the next bit of click-bait. Getting hooked by the notifications, pop ups and all that […]
We’ll start with an on-the-mat practice designed to highlight the teaching points of the day, so you can feel that in your body. Because yoga is an experiential practice, not a thinking or talking practice. Then we might have a mini-lecture and discussion to draw out the topics of the day, with time for your […]
After a two month sabbatical, learning all about herbal medicine at a smallholding on the island of Arran overlooking Ailsa Craig, Claire is back in Wales and teaching her regular classes from tomorrow (Wednesday 30th June): “I can’t remember why I first went to yoga…. Probably because I felt guilty that I wasn’t doing much […]
As the staycation summer heats up, a lot of us are feeling busy like bees. Whatever it is that is keeping you bizzzzy, be that tourism, COVID, your family, or your garden. It can seem like there’s no time for self-care. Or to get to that yoga class you were meaning to attend. BUT this […]
My path to becoming a yoga teacher was full of obstacles. Some were real; some were illusions. There were so many occasions when I said, “I can NEVER do that”. Would I ever be able to do all those hard and scary poses? Would I ever be able to speak in front of a room […]
The mysterious inner landscape you get to explore any time you get on your yoga mat, or any time you chose to connect to it. This massive, variation of feelings. Big feelings. Small feelings. Easy feelings. Challenging feelings. Learning to notice physical sensation and to track how feelings shift and change, moment to moment. It’s […]
The first time I trained to teach yoga there was an ongoing “DIFFERENCE OF OPINION” between the two course leaders. They each followed different philosophies of yoga and insisted on different ways of aligning yoga, which was deeply confusing as a student. There was a lot of talk of CORRECT ALIGNMENT. But what that actually […]
Two years ago we started to do Beach Yoga pop up sessions. I thought it would just be a bit of a novelty, but I was bowled over by how amazing it felt to do yoga surrounded by the sights and sounds of nature. One yoga class participant told me that doing yoga by the […]
Long ago before I started teaching yoga, getting to a class once or twice a week was the main way I used to MANAGE my BACK PAIN and emotional pain. Not to mention the STRESS AND ANXIETY of working in an office and living in a city. So I know how important it is to […]
When I was in my twenties I knew I would end up teaching. I didn’t know what. Because I didn’t know much about anything at that age. And now two decades later I am teaching yoga. And training other people to teach yoga. I would NEVER have predicted either of those things. I mean, yoga […]
