FOUR REASONS… PEOPLE ARE STILL DOING YOGA REGULARLY I’ve been astounded at how people are still finding yoga helpful during the lockdown. Even though I haven’t taught face-to-face yoga classes for 8 weeks now (yes it has been that long)!! But people are making time for yoga online because of 1) Reduced anxiety and lowered […]
THREE THINGS THAT DON’T MATTER ABOUT WHAT YOU WEAR TO YOGA CLASS… AND THREE THAT DO ***UNNECESSARY*** SHOES – Yoga is better without footwear LYCRA – Not needed. Tracksuits and pyjamas are totally fine. So long as you can move and stretch. FANCY BRANDS – Do you need Lululemon or Sweaty Betty? NOOOOOOO! If you […]
DOES PART OF YOU FEEL YOU SHOULD BE “LITTLE MISS PERFECT”? But… imperfection is glorious. Like nature. Nature doesn’t care if every flower is the same shape and size. Nature doesn’t care if the clouds today match some kind of ‘cloud template’. Nature just grows, blooms, expands, and then fades away and rots down at […]
WHO ELSE WANTS TO DEFEAT THE “BUSY” DEMON? Do you “do enough” in life? Are your writing the next great novel / creating a garden paradise / super-schooling the young ones / perfecting your cake making / improving your running speed / developing your new post-Corona business model / WHATEVER. Where does the programming come […]
NO PAIN NO GAIN IS AN OUTDATED LIE That’s what they tell you in the gyms, right? But that’s just not true: having an attitude of self-punishment and self-denial makes it harder to grow and change. And it’s SO not the only way to do it… There are other ways of generating endorphins, and getting […]
HOW TO USE YOUR ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY AND MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU (even if part of you thinks that’s cheating) I can wake up my addictions to alcohol and nicotine really easily. I’m addicted to various forms of scrolling. Plus I’m sooooo addicted to tea. It’s a hereditary problem: once when I went to my […]
IT IS REALLY TRUE THAT YOGA IS ABOUT TURNING YOURSELF INTO A PRETZEL? Instagram is full of pretty pictures of beautiful young ladies on beaches doing advanced yoga postures. I guess for some people that’s inspiring. But the pretzel thing is a yoga myth: you do not need to flexible to start doing yoga. For […]
I’M TOO BUSY / STRESSED / LAZY TO DO YOGA What’s your relationship to time like right now? Have you filled your life with busy-ness and tasks? Or are the days empty like the skies? Are you recreating the patterns in your life prior to lockdown or exploring a new paradigm? I’m good at time. […]
DO YOU FEEL OVERWHELMED RIGHT NOW? Unless you live alone on a desert island and don’t have the internet, you’ll have experienced seismic shifts in your life these last few weeks. Going anywhere has been curtailed; connections we took for granted are inaccessible; the tolerable becomes intolerable; things that were solid have crumbled. It’s just […]
WHO ELSE WANTS TO FEEL MORE SAFE AND STRONG? There’s a lot of chaos out there in the world: big ripples in all places… lockdown’s like a different planet, with different laws of physics. It can be tempting to run away from it all in your mind, and numb out through box-sets, scrolling or hiding […]
