Well 2015 was a bitch, no doubt! I’m so glad and relieved to be out of it and into a sparkling new one – I have a real good feeling about 2016! But, truth be told, that mean-ass year of 2015 made me grow in ways I never would have otherwise. It was the year […]
Yesterday – November 16th 2015 – marked the six month anniversary since I began my journey into Astanga yoga in Mysore style, six mornings a week; the beginning of six months of continuous, consistent, morning yoga, even on those days recently when the very last thing I wanted to do was get on my mat and sweat […]
I have a confession to make! I feel like I may have been really smug in my last two blogs about my daily yoga practice. The morning routine lately has been really hard, a battle with myself to keep my practice going when I least feel like it and by managing to keep it going, I […]
Ooooph, I’m having a hard time these days with my morning yoga practice. Each morning I wake up and I just don’t want to do it…. there’s a heavy weight of resistance sitting on my head as I sleepily go to the loo and brush my teeth. My body feels cumbrous and dull, my mind also, […]
“Inhale, raise the arms up…” I don’t want to be here – I don’t want to do any of this – I hate this bloody routine!!! “Exhale, fold forward…” Man, I just want to go for my breakfast or relax over a cup of coffee, actually pretty much anything if I could just not have […]
It’s nearly four months now since I started my regular, six-mornings-a-week Ashtanga yoga practice routine and it’s amazing what I’ve noticed and learned in this time about my habits, my behavioural patterns, my body and so on…. On a purely physical level though, something I’ve noticed over the months is the potential wear and […]
Willpower is a complex creature; to get the most out of her we really need to learn how to manage her with kindness and respect. This is one of my biggest lessons from the very beginning of doing a regular, consistent, 6-days-a-week morning practice. I love Ashtanga yoga, I love the feeling of stretching and […]
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