Personal Practice: This week I have been mainly... EFT tapping What is EFT tapping? EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique. It's a...

I can't believe it's been a whole year since I began teaching yoga in Alwoodley at the Community Association Hall. Over that time we've...

Personal practice: This week I have been mainly... Lengthening my exhale. Stress! Something we never seem to be short of one way or...

Inside the pose: Anjaneyasana, a leg-strengthening, hip-stretching, back bending posture that grounds the body and opens the heart....

Mabon, Harvest, first signs of Autumn If you've noticed how short the daylight seems to be again at this time of year, you're not alone....

Personal practice: This week I have been mainly... Making sure I practice backwards bending. I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel...

Santosha is a quality we can work towards through yoga practice. It doesn't require any fancy poses, and we can use it 'off the mat' to...

Yoga techniques sometimes give us quick tools to find a little more equilibrium; both on the mat and in daily life. Bhramari Pranayama...

Working into the theme of new beginnings, I'm pushing out of my own comfort zone so we can try more varied yoga techniques together in...

Spring has sprung! Join me in this 12 minute meditation to blossom with the season. Hold the blossom within you for whenever you need it;...

As I write this, it's late April. Isn't this time of year wonderful?! The trees are blossoming or bursting into leaf bud. The spring...

I've been doing a lot of posting recently about stuff that isn't really yoga postures. Yoga, of course, isn't all about the postures; I'd...

Practicing opening the hips is not simply functional movement, to continue to move comfortably in many different ways throughout our...

It's March and the days are getting noticeably longer, but it still seems pretty cold and grim outside. Throughout the winter I've been...

From time to time we probably all remind ourselves to be kind to other people. The family member who forgets to hang the bath mat up...

I don't believe that a lot of people turn up at their first yoga class thinking "I want to build stability today". However, stability is...

Wouldn't it be great if we could avoid stress? I was amazed when I went to therapy and was introduced to the idea that stress is...

It's cold and dark outside. It seems like it's been raining for weeks, and the idea that I can catch early morning sunlight to optimise...

Happy New Year and welcome to 2023! January is such an exciting time. In the northern hemisphere, the days are finally lengthening and we...

It may not surprise you to discover that this yoga teacher is a vegan. Veganism is increasingly popular (rising from 2% to 3% of the UK...