I really really love yoga but recently, oooooph, it’s been hard!

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, […]

It’s not always easy, it’s not always fun, but it’s always, always worth the effort!

“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 […]

Get your ego out of the way, or start saving up now for a new set of knees…

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 […]

What it took for me to get started on my book…

On January 29th, 2015, I jetted off to India for the seventh time in as many years.  My husband and I had left our rented apartment, packed our things into storage and were heading away for over five months.  I used those five months wisely.  I used them to write this book that has been […]