AW Yoga Blog

To me, self practice is pure luxury. It is the time when I know I have enough time and space to simply be on the mat, treating myself, doing exactly what I want to do. I make sure I have all the props I could need around me, check that…

This past week, I have had several great conversations with friends about acceptance, about how to get to a place where we can accept things as they are. I believe that is something most of us struggle with? Can we only be at peace when we are on holiday in…

For the last year, I have felt this incredible aliveness in my body. I am in no doubts it is a combination of the yoga and mindfulness meditation I am practicing that is making me feel this way. With yoga, through movement and breath, you are decompressing joints and increasing…

How do you feel about your spine? To be honest, if you asked me that question a few years ago, I would not have known what to answer! We are probably most often aware of our spine when something is hurting in the back. Everything changes when you start caring…

I cannot stop getting amazed by how much I experience by bringing my awareness to my breathing. In mindfulness meditation, it is called befriending your breath. Yes, why not see your breath as your friend, always here for you, wherever you are, whatever you are doing? Thinking about this, I…

Did you know that when we are born, we are wired to stress? And luckily we are, as it helps us survive in this world! Hearing that the stress-mode in our nervous system is so easily accessible made it easier for me to understand and accept that I actually need…

Through practicing yoga and mindfulness meditation, you get to know a lot about your body. Moving with much more awareness triggered me to care for real for my physical body. And how lucky it is that if your physical body feels fine, your emotional body feels better too! From my…

Sometimes I find I see things in such a simple way, and I realise people around me may view me as very naive, not taking things seriously, not understanding how complicated things really are. Sometimes I just don’t see the problem! I am uncertain if this is a result of…

Have you heard about the Breathing Space in mindfulness? It is a three-step meditation that you can do in less than a minute, or you can take your time exploring every stage, making it last 10 minutes or longer. I find it very useful, and often practice it a couple…