An interesting thing happened when I was driving to work a few days ago. It was about 9.30 am and I had been warned to leave early and go slow as the roads were icy. Then a car pulled out of a driveway ahead of me and I understood what real slow driving was. A lazy […]
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 […]
I’ve been very absent from blogging recently. Life has gotten pretty hectic, it always does coming up to Christmas, but especially if you work in either the retail or hospitality industry. The past two years I’ve worked in both simultaneously! And it seems likely to be the case again this year. But though it may […]
I practice Ashtanga yoga six mornings a week. I do it regardless of whether I want to or not, whether I’m really looking forward to it or dreading it. And recently, boy did I not want to do it, not at all! But with a serious determination to keep it going, somehow, I still got […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m not sure about this one because in my practice this morning all I could do was think, think and think some more about all these essays and articles and musings I wanted to write on this yoga practice of mine. Every so often, I would remember that I was really supposed to be watching […]
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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