I hesitantly stepped into my first yoga class at a time where I really felt like I had hit rock bottom. I was around 17 years old, I had an eating disorder and suffered with anorexia and depression. I had lost a sense of my basic human needs – I did not eat or drink […]
In the grand scheme of things, I am at the beginning of my yoga journey, I have met some incredible humans along the way who have much darker, more challenging journeys than I have. So I don’t claim to have all the answers and I know I have a lot more to learn. I just […]
This word has mystified me for YEARS. I have spent SO long trying to find energy throughout my life for myself that I have become obsessed with figuring out what it is and where to get it from! I can still hear myself saying, ‘yeah I would love to do all that stuff’ (socialising, business […]
I thank the universe for my incredible life coach and now business partner, Simon Ellis. I was teaching a juicy class, one of those ones where I’m right up on my soapbox (poor students…) and I could see Simon was really getting into it. It was his first class, and he got stuck in, I […]
There’s a lot of myth-busting to be done around this question… and I get it, when I started yoga, I thought the same (check out my ‘Why I started yoga’ blog) So when I ask people what they think / thought yoga was here’s what I get… Isn’t yoga just… A stretch-class A waste of time For […]
Ash-tanga means eight-limbs, there are eight limbs of yoga and the physical practice, the asana, is just one. The other limbs include Yama, Niyama, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. These other limbs focus on improving our way of being in the world. In the Western world the focus is usually on the asana – […]
