Are you a busy busy Betty? Or a super stressed Simon? Or a frazzled Ffion? Our modern world is over-stimulating, confusing and distracting. Navigating the demands of work, family, school or latest Covid-rules is hard work. My once-a-month RESTORATIVE YOGA session is about taking the radical choice to set yourself up in a comfortable resting […]
Consent in the age of Covid gets ever more complex. Do you want to sit in the same room as me and breathe the same air? Should we wear masks? How close is it OK to be? One of the significant debates in the modern-day yoga world – even before Covid – was around consent. […]
Craig is one of my favourite yoga teachers: he’s joyous and playful and his teaching is challenging, uplifting and healing. He’s also one of the lead trainers on the Inspiratrix Yoga Teacher Training 2021, sharing his knowledge on philosophy, meditation and more.His background includes exploration of Ashtanga, Sivananda, Iyengar, Satyananda, and Forrest yoga. He has […]
We don’t know when we will get back to in-person classes in Wales, BUT the challenge of limited circumstances is an inspiration to creativity. If we can’t teach yoga in-person, we can teach it online If we can’t do hands-on-assists, we can learn to give better verbal cues If we can’t practice yoga indoors, we […]
What’s glorious about yoga is that it is a practice of experiencing and feeling. Unlike many other things which are mostly about thinking and talking. BUT sometimes it’s helpful to allow space to talk and think about yoga too! Which is one of the reasons I created the Deepen Your Yoga course. It is four […]
It’s a difficult time. Many are struggling. Being in lockdown, there’s nowhere to run to from our own difficult emotions. It’s easy to reach for the short-term fix. The bottle of wine… the frozen dessert… the JustEat app (again)… binging on Netflix… or endless doom scrolling. Actually all we have right now are small choices. […]
Today, Mr Drakeford said “no” to face-to-face classes. But it will be possible to get those in-person classes going again sometime this year. Not instead of virtual, but as well as. After Easter last year, we started the “All the Yogas” monthly subscription for virtual yoga classes, and then outdoor classes, and then in-person classes. It turns […]
It’s nearly a year since the Covid-chaos began. And since then I’ve taught hundreds of yoga classes online. And I’m celebrating and thanking all the people that showed up for classes (here’s some folks connecting up for last night’s session)! I love you!!! Online yoga was a totally new thing for me in March 2020. […]
Yoga classes in the UK and the US are mostly led by people (like me) who don’t have an understanding of the ancient Sanskrit language and have not spent an extended time in that culture. Aspects of yoga are ancient; many aspects are not that ancient. I see a lot of yoga out there that […]
1. My first ‘proper’ job, 22 years ago, was at the BBC, writing software to support the launch of digital television (remember when we only had 4-5 channels?!) 2. I held myself back because of a lack of confidence for many years. 3. I worked in dozens of different offices within the BBC. But because […]
