“There is more to life than increasing its speed” Gandhi Make yourself a priority, slow down and practice some self love. This doesn’t mean being selfish and ignoring the world around you but instead embracing …
what is svadhisthana chakra?
In last weeks Introduction to the Chakras Muladhara Chakra was our focus. As we work our way up through the body, following the central energy line we come next to Svadhisthana chakra. Svadhisthana chakra is …
what is muladhara chakra?
Following on from last week’s introduction to Chakras our first chakra to look at is Muladhara chakra. This is known as the root chakra and is aligned to the moola bandha, the yogic name for …
beginners guide to the chakras
Yoga is so much more than the physical posture or asana practice. Although this is what is is known for we in the western world there are many layers of the philosophical and spiritual world …
what’s next?
A month after that final weekend and I am now a fully Yoga Alliance registered and qualified 200 hour yoga teacher! I’m also unemployed, again, but this time through choice. Throughout the experience of my …
my yoga teacher training
I’m not going to lie I was terrified once that first weekend of my training came around. I felt like that new girl at school with a new notebook, a collection of new pens and …
how I chose my yoga teacher training
Rather than the next couple of posts purely being about what my 200 hour training covered I really would like to give you some insight into how I chose my training, what happened on it, …
my yoga story
Like most people I came to yoga for medical reasons looking for a form of low impact exercise to strengthen my legs. After years of knee pain as a teenager I was diagnosed in 2012 …
what is hatha yoga?
Hatha yoga is one of the most foundational styles of yoga and most classes will be based on a form of hatha yoga. This focuses on the more basic yoga postures, moving at a pace …
what is vinyasa yoga?
Vinyasa is movement to breath and is a fluid yoga practice moving from one posture to another in a sequence. The sequence is not the same from week to week unlike Bikram and Ashtanga meaning …