I’m usually weary of articles headed “X number of steps to…”, and you certainly get enough of them, not just all over social media and adverts on websites, but in the yoga world too. If only it were that straightforward to lose weight/find your soul mate/increase your wealth/do a handstand/change your life. Either the “steps”…
DetailsFor anyone feeling an inner calling to… “something” Be it change, growth, review, adaptation, or letting go, this year has triggered or accelerated one or more of these things in each of us. For this final blog post of 2020, I want to leave to one side the specific external events of the year, and…
DetailsOh My. Oh. My. I’m writing this on the last day of October 2020: surrounded by headlines, commentary and increasingly pressing advice to our nation, the UK, to prepare for another full lockdown. Really? Maybe it was always inevitable. Maybe we’ll get lucky at the last hour. What graphs to believe? What experts to follow?…
DetailsWould you like the key to finding peace in daily life? Ok. Here it is: To experience peace in our daily lives, we need to have more agency over our mind and mental energy, and, to regularly practise both of these things. Sorry if that wasn’t as sexy, punchy or attention grabbing as you might have…
DetailsHow are things, are you still feeling summer vibes? We had a good run of sunshine here in the UK. I sense corona fatigue out there, or people busy and needing to get on with it and the adaptation to changes. We humans are incredible that way. Some of you may have had losses. I’m sorry, really…
DetailsOne minute we are going about our day. Then fragments of news’ arrives, of a virus spreading in a far away land. This expands, over a few weeks, into eerie scenes depicted on European shores and a stream begins to build of regular commentary on media platforms. Random gossip turns to concern, questions become predictions.…
DetailsLately, I have found myself feeling strong emotions – in reaction to political, social and personal events. By this statement, and confessing to it, I mean strong feelings: the kind of feelings that shoot through the whole of your body and don’t vacate. The kind of feeling that lingers, and may even erupt up again…
DetailsHow many memes have you read or seen along the lines of ‘embracing the unknown’, and ‘accepting uncertainty’ as a part of life? I know for me it would be have been thousands of times by now. This has been upped exponentially in recent times, with the pandemic crisis triggering all those articles, whatsapp’s forwards…
DetailsHow are you doing? How are your sleep, home life, work life, bank balance, relationships, family, and friends doing? And… what’s the state of your mind? My answer to that first question: in free-fall; to the second question: in free-fall. “But you’re a yoga teacher and you meditate, you should be fine!” I’ve heard more…
DetailsOne of the buzz phrases of our current time is ‘live in the now’. I think Eckhart Tolle, the gazillion dollar best selling author of the book The Power of Now, has a contribution to that. Plus the rise of the self-help industry and the social media life-take over has meant we are constantly bombarded…
DetailsYesterday, the skies were crystal clear and the sun beat down on us all day in London town, turning the city golden for a whole afternoon before the sun set. Today… ha, what an entirely different ‘world’… parts of the country battered by a cyclone and the rest of the land (including this capital city)…
DetailsI’ve seen more in protest against making new year resolutions than in promoting them this year. When the internet burst on the scene, making it easy as pie to tell the world what to do/think/be, come the cusp of a new year there was an even greater buzz around resolutions, people sharing their objectives and…
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