Tag: present
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2019 Retreat Reveal! : Women’s Spring Revival Retreat
Take a look below at a brand new retreat date for 2019! Hosted by myself and my mother (also a yoga & meditation teacher, as well as qualified hypnotherapist and counsellor), this is a weekend to reawaken your zest for life, experience some very special empowering workshops, and be immersed in an all-inclusive weekend of…
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Back To The Breath: Increasing Prana & Boosting Wellbeing
The more the world desires, consumes and apparently ‘needs’, the less we seem to feel we have. Indeed there’s plenty of ‘stuff’, yet we seem to feel emptier than ever these days. One of the benefits of a Yoga practice is that it begins by bringing us away from all the ‘stuff’ and back to…
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Abundance, Enough-Ness & Becoming Yourself
Spring is very much a season of abundance. Plants come into bloom, nature emerges from hibernation, and the lushness and light of life returns after a rather long, dark Winter. In the sacred text the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna even likens himself to the season of Spring, which is known in ancient Ayurveda as the ‘King…
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Find Your Roots: Muladhara Chakra
‘I came into this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love. Everything else is just borrowed’. Mike Skinner (The Streets) ‘For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world’. 1 Timothy 6:7 (The Bible) The word ‘Muladhara’ translates as ‘root support’, and is the foundational…
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Practice: Preparation For Backbending
Although backbends may appear to be all about flexibility, they actually require a lot of strength in order to practice them in a way that is healthy and sustainable. The strength we need to cultivate before moving into backbends arises not only from the muscles of the back, but also a connection to the deep…
