Yoga for the light

Last week I followed an online yoga class by Rodrigo Souza. I signed up initially due to curiosity, sparked by my interest in how yoga can help with trauma and always open to inspiration on adjusting a practice to include everyone. I have a belief that yoga can and should be accessible to anyone who…

I’m drawn to forests… I’m not sure whether it is darkness of the trees, leafy canopy overheard or the sounds and the scents of the forest… but as soon as I step into a forest I feel a sense of calm, as if the wheels start slowing and any tension almost slips away. There’s often…

I’m not a fan of the saying ‘Curiosity killed the cat’. There’s a lot to be said for curiosity and the desire to expand experience and knowledge and quite simply to try something different from time to time . But it can be difficult. It’s so easy to get stuck in a comfort zone, maybe…

Yet again I realise how lonely and neglected this blog has become. Again there have been a number of changes, some good, others less good… I realise that whatever happens, the yoga practice continues and still acts as an anchor and a stabilising force, the familiar friend that eases you back on to the safe…

It’s been a while since I last posted… I have somehow the feeling that I may have said that before, probably when I last posted … back in 2021… So here goes… a lot has happened since my last post, some of which I may share and some I probably won’t. But let’s focus on…

This morning I made my usual sortie to the forest with a friend, aligning ourselves to the new ‘COVID’ normal by going early to avoid other human beings. We’ve been visiting this same small forest almost every week for almost a year, save for a few weeks when infections were at highest rates. We are…

This morning I went for a walk in the forest after several weeks of near isolation, long work hours and some bitterly cold days. It felt like the forest breathed new energy and hope into me. It was wonderful to step into the forest and be almost instantly overwhelmed by the sound of birdsong and…

Entering 2021 feels much different from entering 2020 which somehow seems to be the start of something new but rapidly became a year of distancing and sadness on a individual but also global scale. It feels like there have been some learnings though from 2020 (‘every day a new learning’ as they say)… a stronger…

I came across this article the other day which fits in with the trend of recycling and a more environmentally friendly way of shopping for clothes. I wondering how things will go when/if we move into a post-COVID world. It will be interesting to see if being away from physical shops and the whole shopping…

Yesterday was an exciting day.. I was given the opportunity to give a presentation on yoga, including a short practice, at a conference. It’s kind of tricky sometimes to summarise yoga – there are so many aspects of yoga. I find the history and philosophy fascinating too, wondering how people really experienced their yoga practice…