Yoga Anywhere
It is often assumed that to be a yogi you need to be bendy and size 6. If I had a protein bliss ball for every time someone said to me, “I can’t do yoga, I’m not flexible…” I’d be pretty fat! The definition of yoga is yoke or union. It is the bringing together of the...
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DNA is the genetic material in our bodies which make up the cells that determine who we are. A very cool scientist called Elizabeth Blackburn from Hobart found that each strand of DNA has a cap on its ends. These caps are called telomeres They are sort of like aglets...
read morePranayama and Sleep
Pranayama is the Sanskrit term for breathing techniques. It seems that sleeping can be a really tricky thing for a lot of people these days. I tend to be able to fall asleep fairly easily but wake up through the night and/or very early. I have a little pact with...
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I’ve had to read a book called “High Performance Habits” by Brendan Bouchard for a course I’m doing at the moment. The book is not really about how to become a CEO of a large corporation per se, but more about how to live a fulfilling life. It focuses on 6 different...
read moreOne of yoga’s many gifts…
One of yoga’s many gifts… Tori Swedosh July 27, 2018 The body is incredible and gives us messages constantly. More often than not, we don’t listen. We just keep hammering our bodies and pushing forward, getting stuff done - quick, quick, busy ,busy, busy. Say you’re...
read moreThe Story of the Warriors
Shiva is considered to be the creator of the Universe in the Hindu religion. He wanted to marry Sati, the daughter of the great King, Daksha. Now Daksha was not happy about this union. Although why you wouldn’t want your daughter to marry the creator of the universe,...
read moreFake it until you make it
"Fake it until you make it" by Tori Swedosh July 24, 2018 Look up from reading for a second, look around the space you’re in. Pretty much everything you are looking at, came from someone’s imagination. Pretty cool eh? If we all have this incredible tool, why not use...
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Maybe you’re someone like me who had an idea of how it should all look in a perfect world and found it hard to believe that it’s not like we imagine it should be. It took me a long time to realise and accept that there is no such thing as perfection. Perfection is an...
read more“The Million Dollar Yoga Question”
The definition of yoga is yoke or union- Union of breath to body to mind. Simple. So why isn’t it? Why is it that we get so wrapped up in our busy lives, the stress, the tension and feeling overwhelmed to forget to breathe, forget to let go and relax. For me that’s...
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