I have been working hard in the garden recently and while digging out lots of thistles I was thinking about how similar the practice of yoga is to gardening! If we practice our yoga diligently and with patience we slowly but surely root out the knots and areas of tension which we hold hidden under the surface. If however we stop for a while they come back! Maybe not as bad as before but that slow creep of connective tissue closing aroound our joints restricting movement milli

So today a friend and I went to a new Gym. We went undercover to a yoga class with a teacher I didn't know anything about. It was fun to be at the back of the room, no pressure to do anything just prcatice. It was very hard to switch off my teachers head though! I was watching the other students, scanning for issues which I would normally correct. I spotted so many, shoulder tension everywhere, an unsafe knee position there and a collapsed spine over there. It took a while fo

Have you ever noticed that when you have an injury whether a niggling ache or something more serious your awareness is heighten? Everytime we move or touch that area, our feelings and thoughts are drawn like a magnet and every movement occurs with full awareness. I try to see any injury as an opportunity for being mindful. We take our bodies so much for granted that most of the time we don't even consider them. We just expect them to move and function. When they don't we can

Every endeavour has to start somewhere. I am not a webdesigner and up until a few months ago had no experience in any form of programming!! Yet here I am with a website ( albeit a basic one) that I have designed and formatted. Before I had even typed a single word the whole prospect filled me with fear. Could I do it? I had no technical knowledge just a passion for sharing the yoga I love with other people. For weeks I held off, fear of failure preventing me even trying. The