It’s easy to think that if we just practise hard enough, at some point we will nail it, complete yoga, become the ultimate guru. The reality is that yoga is a continuous practice, it is extraordinarily diverse and it changes as we change.

Yoga teachers say it all the time ‘listen to your body’. It’s a lot easier said than done when we spend 95% of our yoga practice listening to the instructions of the yoga teacher, with a couple of options thrown in for the most challenging poses. Read on for some suggestions on how to trust what your body is telling you and let it guide your practice as much as your teacher does.

Having just finished reading Body Positive Power , by Megan Jayne Crabbe, I’m fired up, I’m inspired, and I’ve got a lot of thoughts about Body Positivity and yoga to share. Read on for the knotty ways body positivity interplays with a yoga practice and 5 things that I’m doing to become a truly body positive yoga teacher.

I know that yoga can help everyone in some way, it’s why I teach. Yet so many people are put off from giving it a try due to the myths and misconceptions that surround the practice. I want to break down the walls around the western yoga world, here’s a few thoughts about how.

It often feels like to be a ‘good’ yogi we have to dedicate hours of time (and spend lots of money) to a physical practice. In fact even 5 minutes of yoga can have remarkable benefits, so we shouldn’t be put off by the time commitment perception. However much time you’ve got to do some yoga, that’s enough to get started.

I hear it all the time, “I could never do yoga, I’m not flexible enough”. I think this is the most pervasive misconception about yoga, and its a great shame because it is putting so many people off giving yoga a try. Read on to discover how you can be too flexible for yoga and where the idea of flexibility in yoga even came from. I hope this provides some inspiration to give some yoga a try.

Right now the vast majority of us are confined to our homes. Suddenly a place generally reserved for rest and relaxation has become an office, a gym and perhaps even a classroom. We’ve most likely carved out enough space to work and learn effectively, but have we made enough space for our mental health? Here are seven tips to help create a mini-sanctuary at home, no matter how much space you have to spare.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the vast majority of us are social-distancing, at home, and going through a really challenging time. Here are 7 reasons why its never been more important that we stay active and keep moving. For our physical health, our mental health and our relationships.

We hear it all the time, meditation will change your life. It can improve your brain-function and focus, it can relieve anxiety and depression, it can lift your mood, reduce inflammation, even help heal your gut. We hear these benefits evangelically shouted from the rooftops, but knowing all this is not enough to get many of us to give meditation a try. Or to stick with it once we’ve tried it. Here are some ideas about how to change our thinking around meditation practice, with a 2 minute how-to guide to get you started.

Setting goals can help us achieve wonderful things, but if we are too focused on external validation and arbitrary results, we risk losing sight of our goals altogether. Here’s what I’ve learned about setting goals that we can stick to, without assigning our self-worth to our achievements.