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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…

Tuesday 10 October is this year’s World Mental Health Day, so it feels as an appropriate time to mention how the practice of yoga can help with emotional pain. Every time someone tells me they practice yoga, t’ai chi or qigong, I feel happy – and I tell them! To…

Shoulders have been the main focus in my classes this week. The shoulder region tends to be a place in the body where many of us hold a lot of stress, so it is beneficial to release tension in this area in order to take care of our overall wellbeing.…

It might be a myth that we only use 10-20% of our brain capacity. However, reading about that myth/fact and mindfulness in an article exactly five years ago was what made me want to meditate. The article included a picture of an iceberg above and below water to illustrate how…