ashtanga yoga

Backbend Comfort
Asana, Back Bend, Practice

Backbends: they CAN feel GOOD and they ARE good!

The curse of modern life. How do you physically exist in the modern world? Hunched over keyboards and steering wheels? Carrying too much weight in our bags, or on our shoulders as we battle to stay connected in this digital age. This equates into a grotesque adult imitation of the foetal position with hips flexed […]

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Parental Fatigue
Practice, Social

Parental Fatigue Syndrome – why you should hit yoga practice, not the kids

The Problem Being a parent is exhausting – no two ways about it. If you’re the parent of under twos it is physically relentless.  You are weightlifting little humans all day long, never quite getting enough sleep, and trying to fit in everything that you did before in order to prove that ‘being a parent’

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Yoga Class
Graduates, On Yoga Teaching, Practice

Interview: Founder Rebecca Ffrench on YogaLondon’s TEN Year Anniversary

YogaLondon is 10 this November. We talk to our Director and Founder Rebecca Ffrench about what she’s most proud of, the birth of YogaLondon, why she’s moving away from Yoga Philosophy to learn Flamenco and cheese-making…and why YogaLondon’s courses should come with a ‘THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE’ warning! 1. Firstly, congratulations on YogaLondon’s tenth

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Yoga User’s Guide
Amplifying Others Voices, Graduates, On Yoga Teaching, Self Care

Interview: Jonathan Thompson on How to Heal Yourself through Yoga

Jonathan Thompson is an Ashtangi, YogaLondon 200-hour teacher trainer, and a deeply sensitive and emotionally intuitive person. Here he talks to us about the impact of his father’s early death, the mutually supportive relationship he has with his mother and how, for him, yoga, coaching, and psychology are all different sides of the same coin.

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