The past two years have led many to make changes, to prioritise their mental and physical health in a way they hadn’t before. As part of these changes, lots of people have taken up yoga or returned to the practice in a more committed way. I’ve seen in my own […]
Clair Yates
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At this time of year, it’s common to feel drawn in two directions. On the one hand, bright lights, shopping, overspending, overeating, alcohol, and consumerism are vying for our attention and on the other hand longer nights and colder weather are naturally calling us inwards. If we allow ourselves to […]
Finding ground. A sense of being grounded. Last month I wrote about yoga for pelvic health, focusing on the area most often referred to as the pelvic floor and I was asked about the connection between the pelvic floor and the root chakra in yoga. Chakra is a Sanskrit word […]
I’m really excited to be planning my next British Wheel of Yoga Foundation Course scheduled to begin in January 2022. This structured 60-hour course, certified by the British Wheel of Yoga, covers physical yoga practice, philosophy & theory. It’s the perfect way to delve deeper into yoga, giving you time […]
Being a yoga teacher I am fairly well informed about health in general but I was definitely not prepared for the start of the perimenopause in my early 40s. Now I know that it’s a really common time for women to start feeling a bit different and very common for us […]
Though yoga for pelvic health is a wider topic, for this article I’m going to focus on the muscles at the base of the pelvis, the region most often referred to as the pelvic floor. These days I am trying to avoid referring to the base of the pelvis as […]
Walking meditation is thought to have its origins in Buddhism. It’s recorded that the Buddha himself talked about the benefits of walking meditation and how it can assist us in the practice of awareness. Although I teach walking meditation, it’s never been a practice that I turned to myself, always […]
I’m sure many of you know that meditation, breathing techniques, and yoga relaxation practices can alter our nervous system, bringing about states of great calmness and feelings of ease. But what about when we feel too fidgeting to sit or lie still, or our mind just won’t play ball and […]
Last month I wrote about the summer solstice and International Yoga Day and how it’s become customary to perform sun salutation type sequences at this time of the year. Since then I’ve had lots of questions about sun salutations, what are they and are their benefits. As noted in my […]
This year the summer solstice fell on Monday the 21st of June, the same day as International Yoga Day! It’s not a coincidence that the two events fell on the same day. When the UN proposed and established International Yoga Day the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, suggested the date […]