Being a yoga teacher is the perfect job for me. I have been a teacher all my working life and teaching yoga means I get to share my passion for yoga with others. I love it. I practice yoga 6 days a week and I spend lots of my time learning more about yoga both […]
How to improve your flexibility on as little as 5 minutes a day
It’s great to stretch every day. Even if you know that you may find it difficult to always find the time. The traditional Ashtanga for a short practice would be to do some sun salutations and then as much of the standing sequence as you have time for (or none of it) and then the […]
You are not too inflexible to do yoga
Occasionally someone will tell me that they are too tight to do yoga. Isn’t that a shame! Besides the fact that yoga isn’t really about flexibility, mobility is something that will inevitably improve if they do more of it. The great thing about yoga is that everyone can just do what they can in each […]
How to change yourself and others and how yoga can help you.
It’s easy to categories ourselves and others. Maybe it’s even necessary in order to allow us to create our own unique model of the world with expectations and understanding of the people around us. However as we categories ourselves and others we create boxes, we form beliefs about what we expect and this can reinforce […]
How Yoga can help you manage your emotions
Occasionally a student will say something to me like I can’t imagine you getting upset, angry etc. My long standing practice of yoga have certainly given me a sense of inner calm. It hasn’t made me immune to negative emotions though. I have them and I don’t want to get rid of them. Sometimes sadness […]
Ancient wisdom applied to modern life – How yoga can help you transform your habits
As special as we all are as individuals, it never ceases to amaze me how similar we are. Not only with each other, but with our ancestors also. Yoga offers an ancient philosophy that is just as applicable and helpful in the modern world. Indeed many of the things we struggle with today were discussed […]
Achieve your goals in 2018 and beyond – Why doing less may mean achieving more
I love setting goals and I know I achieve a lot more when I set them. Goals help me move my life in the direction that I want it to go, rather than letting circumstance or other people decide what I am prioritizing. It seems like there is more and more to do, and with […]
Liverpool Yoga Book Club – Join in and Help us Choose or Next Book
Last year I started Liverpool Yoga Book Club with the help of one of my senior students Ashley Bromilow. The aim of the club is to encourage reading and discussion of yoga books within the city of Liverpool. We discuss our reading online on our Facebook page and meet up in person every 2 months. […]
Stretching out your psoas and why it is important
The psoas muscle is an important hip flexor and low back stabilizer that often gets tight. Stretching it will help you deepen your backbends but the benefits do not end there. It’s a key muscle and if out of balance then it can cause you back pain and freeing it up will help you move […]
Being strong as a woman is not only okay it’s incredibly good for you
One of the benefits of a more dynamic style of yoga like ashtanga is that it will build strength. Some women may be scared to be strong fearing that they will somehow make you less attractive. Don’t panic, women build strength differently to men in fact it’s more difficult for women to build strength so […]
