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What does a Yoga practitioner look like? How flexible must you be before you even think about trying Yoga? Do you fit the stereotype? Not many of us do. I'd like to dispel the Instagram myth. You don't have to be flexible to do Yoga. You don't have to be young to do...

Imbolc, also known as Candlemas or Saint Brigid's Day, is an ancient Celtic festival that's celebrated on 1st or 2nd February each year at the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. It marks the awakening of the Earth as she moves towards Spring....

Yoga is more than a series of physical poses. It’s also a system for living your life off the mat. The Eight Limbs of Yoga, the Yoga Sutras, were the ancient ‘rules’ to living a better life as taught by the Indian teacher Patanajali, a very long time ago in around the...

Do you ever arrive home and realise you've got absolutely no idea how you got there? Yes? Well, that's what it often feels like when we are feeling ungrounded. We're engrossed in our thoughts, dreams and fantasies, disconnected from our bodies and our environment. In...

As women, we’re expected to be the same every day – look after our families, go to work, be productive, race around, get things done… but we’re not the same every day. Some days we’re full of energy, others we’re not. Some days we want to be sociable and surround...

Winter's here – the leaves have fallen from the trees, it's much colder, the days are shorter and the nights are longer and all around us nature has withdrawn, is hibernating, slumbering, dormant, resting and renewing before reawakening in Spring. There's a stillness...

Ironically, during Wintertime the cycle of the seasons, short days and long nights draw us inwards, society and our culture draws us outwards. Christmas is probably one of the busiest times of the year with the parties, food, decorations, entertaining family, jolly...

Just Here For The Savasana We've been talking a lot lately in my blog posts about self care and stepping back from the fast pace of life to reconnect with ourselves (and others), create space and heal. So, to coin a phrase from the world we live in, what can you do if...

On the whole, we’re a disconnected society – disconnected from ourselves, other people around us and our environment. Not long ago, when I was younger, you’d see teenagers gathered in bus shelters or on park benches chatting, laughing, maybe enjoying the odd can of...

"In an age of constant acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of constant distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. In an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still." - Pico Iyer Have you ever...

Samhain (pronounced sow-en) is the ancient Celtic Fire Festival, one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals along with Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh. It's a celebration of the end of harvest and the start of the colder winter months. Celebrated from sunset on 31...

In previous blog posts, we've likened the phases of your monthly menstrual cycle to the seasons of the year. And in the same way the phases of a woman's life also roughly correspond to the seasons, with autumn being perimenopause. I’m deep in this dance, sometimes...