Starting your day with some deep breaths, physical movement and moments of calm has a positive impact on your day ahead. It’s all about getting the blood and oxygen pumping around the body by stimulating the heart and the mind. So here’s how to get started. It’s really simple… …choose one routine and do it READ MORE
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Boost your energy and feel calm
Boost your energy AND Feel calm Ever feel a bit tired and think, gee I wish I could take some drug to keep me going… like coffee… But for whatever reason, haven’t had anything to hand? Well, this little breathing technique will boost your energy in minutes. Breath of Fire The Breath of Fire not only boosts READ MORE
Balancing the brain with the breath
Balancing the brain by using your breath Did you know you can balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain using your breath? I’ve mentioned before the power of the breath on the central nervous system. But there is one pranayam that actually helps to both calm you down and bring clarity to your READ MORE
How to: Engage and strengthen your core muscles
Simple exercises to engage and strengthen your core muscles Our core muscles are made up of the Transverse Abdominis, Pelvic floor muscles and Lumbar Multifidus (as well as general abdominal muscles). See more about the muscles further down this blog. If you place your fingers two inches in from your hip bones, and cough, you’ll READ MORE
Easing back pain with yoga
How Yoga can help prevent and reduce lower back pain There are a number of ways Yoga can help with easing back pain. Both on a physical and psychological level. It all comes down to what the back pain is, and how it was caused. In this blog, I specifically talk about non-specific lower back READ MORE
How to breathe better
BREATHE BETTER – DEEP BREATHING You can learn how to breathe better by using Pranayam (controlled breathing exercises). Below is a breathing exercise to help build strength in your lungs and the muscles used for breathing, increase lung capacity and also relieve feelings of stress. This is deep belly breathing into the Deep Yogic Breath. READ MORE
You know YOU best
You know YOU best Everybody’s body is different. We have a similar set up, key ways our body’s function, but generally, how we use that set up is different for each of us. For example, some people’s body proportions allow them to easily touch their toes, whether they have tight hamstrings or not. Some people READ MORE
3 tips for meditating
Often people say to me that ‘I can’t meditate, I can’t clear my mind’. Neither can I. I’m not sure anyone can; unless they’re living away from the busy modern world. Meditation is not about clearing the mind. The Mind is technically a processor. Always processing information from everything around you, anything that’s picked up READ MORE
Living with anxiety
I don’t hide it. I’m not ashamed of it. If anything, I have talked about it more since teaching yoga than I ever have. My anxiety is the result of an attached emotion to a past life event that I can’t recall. It’s often triggered by stress, and became part of who I am. People READ MORE
Benefits of yoga for a punk
So you play in a band and thrash about on stage? Or you join in the fun in a mosh pit? Wall of death? So you’re thinking, “Really, yoga? and punk? And how can that really benefit me?” Well here are a few of the many benefits of yoga as a whole (asanas, breathing and READ MORE