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 […]
Recently while having a chat with my cousin about my yoga practice, she literally balked at the thought of doing the same sequence of postures every single day without change. To her it seemed boring and restrictive, as though all joy and light were sucked out of the practice by practicing in this way. I […]
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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