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Something always makes me feel good after yoga and that is the freedom I feel around the hips when walking after class. Having practised postures and movements that have helped create space in the hip region, walking feels like butter and the legs move effortlessly. HOW DO YOU FREE YOUR…

Perhaps you are like me, not moving that much in the last weeks of the year? Other commitments take over and suddenly two weeks are gone with little or no movement practice at all… Movement is medicine! As I am coming back to a more or less daily yoga practice…

I like opening books at a random page and take in what is there for me to learn. This morning I opened “The Heart of Yoga”. The book is written by T. K. V. Desikachar. Desikachar was the son of Krishnamacharya, the pioneer of modern yoga as exercise. Very briefly…

In London in the early 1950s, Jeremy Morris led a study called The Cohort Studies. The aim of the study was to understand the importance of physical health. By comparing bus drivers with more physically active bus conductors, as well as office-based telephonists with more physically active postmen, it became…

At the end of final relaxation in a yoga class, when everyone is lying in Savasana, I often say: “Notice how your body feels in this moment. If you scan your body, maybe noticing a positive change as a result of your practice”. There are so many layers in yoga.…

Here’s something about meditation and stepping out of thinking. We have all experienced how thoughts can be fun, bothersome, oh yes, the whole range of thoughts! Most of us have the same thoughts today as yesterday and the day before. Most of them tend to be negative and they can…

If you ask me what has had the biggest impact on my life this year I’d say it is embracing the cold. By cold I mean the cold shower I am taking every morning to feel awake and ready for the day. I started out of curiosity end of December…

A cool thing happens when you befriend what is here. You tune into the moment and there is a sensation of expansion and becoming one with life. That is at least how I experience it! Here are a couple of examples from this summer to illustrate what I am talking…

When we hear “inspirational women” we might think of women who have achieved something specific in their life. How about bringing to mind women who embody a joy for life? This summer in the South of France I met up with three women who are much older than me –…

With lockdowns this past year I guess we have all moved in different ways to what we used to!? There has been more steps per day for most, and many have started a new movement practice as gyms and sports centres have been closed and group activities cancelled. Personally I…