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I’ve done some serious January diets in my time, this year will be the second year running that I am not letting myself fall into that.  January is cold and dark enough!  A few years ago, I hadn’t found exercise I enjoyed, that I felt I could stick to, aside from walking Zammi. So, IContinue reading “Why I’m not listening to the media this January.”

Introduction: Welcome. I thought I would start again by taking us back to the beginning. We’ll draw our attention to what yoga teaches about soul and spirit. There are 3 main texts we’ll be exploring in this series: the Baghavad Gita, The Vedas and The Sutras of Patanjali.  Chapter 2 Verse 20- Baghavad Gita “TheContinue reading “This Divine Light- Lesson notes.”

It was when I decided to merge the Saturday and Sunday classes, that I really found the love for teaching everyone together. I’d been enjoying offering alternatives in class for a while.. saying things like ‘if you want to feel more of a stretch do this, and less – do this..’ and now my groupContinue reading “Everyone in”

Teaching online yoga from the camper isn’t actually very different to teaching from home. Apart from figuring out how to charge my laptop and make sure the signal is strong enough. But the teaching aspect, how I guide the class, that’s pretty much the same. In September and October 2020, I was guiding classes byContinue reading “You teach yoga from a camper van?”

I’ve noticed that a way I measure my mood is by the tightness in my chest and how deeply I can inhale. My breath-in can feel like it gets stuck at the top, which stops me from taking a full breath. Before taking my Yoga Teacher Training (YTT), I had a constant feeling of butterflies,Continue reading “Breath”

I’m sure I’ll look back on this piece and smile in a few years time. I’ll think- how sweet, how little I knew. Teaching online is wonderful! I am really really enjoying it! It’s not for everyone, but right now it feels right for me.  Teaching this way means I can make my own littleContinue reading “As the world begins to open up, I reflect on teaching online”

I love looking back at my old journals and found one I used to plan my first classes on the beach. I remember it being quite daunting: how to work out how to make it fit the time? (I borrowed a watch).. How to remember all the poses? (I wrote them on my hand!) TheContinue reading “Classes taking shape..”

I started out teaching group classes on a beautiful beach called Hengistbury Head in Dorset, UK. Staying in a beach hut, I put up a sign and each morning, swept the sand and waited to see who would come. What I saw was how many, different people are interested in yoga. They seemed to comeContinue reading “My first days teaching yoga”

I began scribbling down thoughts only when I felt heavy with them. Messily telling the page what was troubling me. So when I moved house I found notebooks with the first ten pages written in and then nothing else. Abandoned once I felt alright again. Having served their purpose in letting me put what IContinue reading “Writing it out”