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 […]
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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 falls on Monday the 21st of June, the same day as International Yoga Day! It’s not a coincidence that the two events fall on the same day. When the UN proposed and established International Yoga Day the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, suggested the date […]
This year Mental Health Awareness Week is the 10th – 16th of May, World Meditation Day falls on the 21st May and in England from the 17th of May group indoor yoga classes will again be permitted under the Government Roadmap out of lockdown – hooray! Though online yoga classes […]
Often referred to as alternate nostril breathing, Nadi Shodhana is a yoga breathing technique that numerous studies have found to increase feelings of well-being, improve memory, relieve stress, and increase physical relaxation. I’ve recently been teaching Nadi Shodhana in my yoga classes and class members have reported feeling much calmer after the […]
While most types of yoga leave us feeling relaxed, restorative yoga is a style of yoga designed purely for relaxation and rejuvenation and is especially beneficial for overcoming and preventing nervous exhaustion. Restorative yoga has already been found to help with the management of and recovery from chronic fatigue conditions […]
After the year we’ve just had, it would be easy to feel disconnected, to find it hard to know what we feel, what we need, or what to do to feel better. Luckily yoga gives us tools to help us to tune in and become more aware of what we […]
For many of us the closing of one year and the beginning of the next feels like a natural time to reflect on the past and look towards the future, perhaps imagining and planning what type of year we would like to have. This year in particular I feel it’s […]
Yoga is Connection. As I write this, we don’t know what December will look like, but it seems as though at least some of the restrictions will still be in place as we move into the Christmas period and the year comes towards a close. As well as the benefits […]
In 2018 a group of researchers carried out a study into the effect of a 4-week yoga intervention on pre-adolescent girls’ and boys’ body image – factors studied included body appreciation, body esteem, body surveillance and mood. The results – described as ‘unexpected’ by the research teams – showed both […]