I haven’t been feeling too great. I’m not really sure how or when, but I fell into the black hole. I felt angry, and sad, and frustrated, and lost, and trapped, and anxious. And stressed, so so stressed. The magic combo of lockdown, home schooling, loss of income and focus, combined with worry about loved […]
I am forever a student and constantly learning more about myself, which comes to me through meditation, journaling, yoga and meeting new people. I love travelling the world and always experience personal growth, gaining new insights and fully embracing different cultures. It makes me feel ‘alive’ and allows me to be in the present. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am not a nutritionist, I can only speak from my experience with my own battles of body weight and perfectionism. I used to go at 100 mph, I would work loads, work out loads, eat loads, and repeat that cycle every day, everything was extreme! That resulted in me being a fairly intense, non-relaxed, […]
Disease can be a very controversial topic and I do not claim to be any sort of medic, I am simply sharing what I have learnt through my own personal yoga journey and what I have found enlightening. I don’t understand why some people get horrible illnesses and others don’t, I am fascinated by how […]
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 […]
by Polly Woodward I was in my mid twenties when I was diagnosed with endometriosis. I was devastated, as I’d always wanted children and this felt like a very big obstacle. I went through a chemical menopause to try and reset my system, and a year or so later when my gynaecologist said ‘it’s now […]
