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Yoga Teacher Training
Our 2020 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training course is now open! It has timed perfectly with our final intensive week of the 2019 Teacher Training that started this weekend. By this Saturday, our next year of students will be qualified yoga teachers, and again what a journey it has been! I try to avoid cliches […]
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National Stress awareness Week
In the words of Tony Robbins, ‘stress is an achiever’s word for fear’ – so, what is it that we are so scared of? THE SCIENCE OF stress The science shows us that some animals are born with a defence mechanism to survive, but humans are born dependant i.e. someone else had to put our needs ahead of […]
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wellness in the workplace with safetember
Soul Sanctuary helped educate about wellness in the workplace to TSG UK employees across the country as part of their SAFEtember 2019 roadshow. WELLNESS IN THE WORKPLACE Soul Sanctuary were invited to speak during TSG’s Health and Safety month and hosted health and wellbeing workshops to more than 230 attendees across six venues, as company […]
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Live light, travel light, be the light
Pain in our bodies and nerves is caused by resistance in our minds… We really do not need much to be happy!!
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New Chapters
My youngest baby starts school this month. I remember the day that she was born, even though I’d been through it all before, it felt totally different. She was fresh and new, a shiny little human. She reminded me so much of her older sister, but at the same time I could tell they were […]
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YOGA FOR BEGINNERS – Find your Soul Sanctuary
We pride ourselves on our yoga for beginners programmes, which are based on understanding and also addressing the idea that anyone who does yoga must be able to touch their toes. Flexibility is not a prerequisite for yoga, far from it! Here at Soul Sanctuary, we understand that many people are timid about trying yoga […]
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The mind, body, soul connection
Like a lot of people, I was attracted to yoga initially for the ‘asana’, or physical poses. I thought it would be a great compliment to other activities I did such as running, going to the gym, etc. Also if you look up yoga on Pinterest or Instagram the models have amazing bodies, right? I […]
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Authenticity and True Self
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 […]
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Why I started yoga
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 […]
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The ‘spiritual stuff’ explained
I think there is a huge misunderstanding around spirituality – I have wonderful teachers in mind who I think of when I think ‘spiritual’ and those images usually involve burning sage, crystals, singing bowls and chanting. I like to understand how stuff actually works – maybe that’s the realist or cynic in me, or maybe […]
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Energy
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 […]
