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Changing your mind

I’ve just enjoyed a yoga workshop with free thinking therapists and teachers sharing their wisdom.  Some of that wisdom would be considered radical in a one-track, one-mind world where the doctrine pushed hardest by the […]

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Training for Longevity

Many of my students, including myself, use yoga so that we can enjoy a host of other fun pursuits like mountain biking, golf or running. The are seven Fundamental Movements that humans have done since […]

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Detoxing with yoga

In yoga the seasons play an important role in our well-being – and spring came early this year!  The magnolias have almost finished blossoming, the baby birds are cheeping in the hedges, and every plant […]

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Yoga and the Cosmos

We’ve just enjoyed a Breathwork Workshop using Yoga, Rebirthing Breathwork and Meditation together with the cosmic energy of the Lions Gate on Saturday August 8, 2026.  Rebirthing Breathwork is defined as: “merging the outer breath, […]

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Primal movement and yoga

I was listening to a fascinating podcast on movement, as you do as a yoga teacher – movement, the mind and the spirit are all endlessly fascinating subjects. The podcast was on primal movement and […]

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Nada Yoga

Vocal toning was one of those teachings that the first time I tried it (it was mantra chanting) I woke up the next day with these ancient, magical, deeply healing Sanskrit mantras reverberating in my […]

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Karma 

In the world of yoga, we think of karma as past debt, either good or bad. We carry this through with us into this lifetime and if you are aware of your baggage and heritage, […]

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Life is Sacred

In most lineages of yoga, the five elements of life: earth, water, fire, air and space are considered sacred and seen as the underlying forces of existence for all life.  Because our bodies are made […]

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The Sky of your Mind

I’ve just come back from a retreat with my Guru who was visiting from India.  Five days of silence, meditation and breathwork.  To be in the presence of a realised Master was fabulous and uplifting.  […]

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Living from your Centre

We have just enjoyed an amazing yoga retreat at a monastery in Springbrook.  A weekend of silence, contemplation, Tibetan Diamond Light Yoga, mantra and sound healing. Deeply transformative. One of the central tenets of the […]