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I see life as a series of phases, and a new phase is coming up for me with my youngest of two starting university next month! From having found myself in a life situation for the past 25 years where I have been married, had children, have cared for children…

Challenge yourself, try something new, get out of your comfort zone, step out of autopilot – in my view, these expressions all mean the same thing! They will make you feel different and allow you to learn something new. To really live life (if you want to), I believe it…

Exciting times with the Championships on at Wimbledon! So much tennis to watch, so many tennis fans around, maybe the best time of the year in SW19? I have a passion for Yoga for Sports, and my favourite sport is tennis. Feeling super-lucky to be in this environment right now!…

Tennis players are in my head at the moment! I am watching too much tennis on TV… So I am watching all these great matches, and suddenly it occurs to me that I can’t really compare one player to another in terms of who’s winning and who’s not, as it…

Going inside has taken on a new meaning to me. In order to add hours to my present yoga teacher training, I recently signed up to Gary Carter’s 10-weekend Anatomy and Myofascial Movement course for Yoga Teachers. First weekend was this weekend, and I’m just blown away by what I’ve…

Without a doubt, my biggest failure was my divorce. I haven’t thought about my divorce as failure for a long time, and I also feel that it is something that is over, in the past. It’s kind of weird, I don’t associate with that feeling any longer – I don’t…

Just to “announce” it again, the psoas is my favourite muscle! I wrote about it on the blog end of August last year (in the article “Psoas work works”). Still not done with this muscle, probably never will. The psoas is perhaps a muscle you have never heard of, but…

Ok, I get it, I won’t really get men interested in trying one of my yoga classes by talking too much about conscious breathing, stillness and calmness within! So I thought I’d share some real physical benefits that come with yoga, especially when it comes to combining yoga with a…

This feeling of being stuck, trapped, is a feeling I had for several years and that I know well. There was not really anyone to blame for it, except myself! The responsibility, the need to be in control, this 110% commitment I felt I had to give to the children,…

Over the past year, I have noticed I very often get this response when I suggest to someone they come and try my yoga class: “No, I do pilates”. I am unsure what it means, but I can acknowledge there are lots of ways to understand the word “yoga”. Probably…