Our health is always a top priority. But in these last few months, the Covid-19 crisis has made many of us realise how important (and precious) our health is. Those who are physically stronger, at a healthy weight and with a more resilient immune system are more likely to beat the virus if they catch […]
With the world as we know it on hold due to the coronavirus outbreak, it leaves plenty of unanswered questions in the average yoga teacher’s mind. When will everything return to normal? When will I be able to teach regular classes again? And how will I survive financially without my yoga teaching income? At the
We are coming up to the anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown. It feels like it’s about a hundred years ago, and five minutes ago. Last May I wrote an article about getting ready for yoga teaching after lockdown, with no inkling that I would be writing virtually the same article almost a year later.
The global COVID-19 crisis we’re experiencing has changed everyone’s lives overnight. Just a few weeks into being told to stay at home, the impacts are being felt on a personal, national and global scale. But how is this affecting the yoga industry? Just like every other service, yoga teaching has had to stop in real
Back in lockdown 1.0, we all threw ourselves enthusiastically into our hour of exercise a day. We tuned in to Joe Wickes, we bought bikes, scooters and trampolines in record numbers. And of course, threw ourselves into the plethora of online yoga classes out there. This time around the mood is slightly less enthusiastic. We
Admit it, lockdown has been weird. No judging, but it was weird. With regular work hours, travel, socialising and general ease of life suddenly stopping, everything was turned upside down and inside out. No longer having the need jump out of bed, I now loll under the duvet. My hope is either to fall asleep
As we head into this brave new not-quite-post-pandemic world it’s fair to ask about the need for yoga teachers. Now that we’ve adapted to doing yoga online, should we just be posting Youtube videos and letting people get on with it? There can be no denying that over the past eighteen months the yoga industry
‘Hooray! Yoga classes can start in person again from May 17th! Everything can go back to normal!’ This is how most yoga teachers and students are expected to be feeling. We have been told that lockdown is hard, teaching online is second best to in-person classes, and that we should all be champing at the
There are lots of things that feel long about this pandemic. There are long lockdowns, long queues for the supermarkets, long waits to be vaccinated and long gaps between seeing our friends and family. But one of the many human tolls of Covid-19 is the condition termed ‘long Covid’. As yoga teachers and practitioners, this
We’ve all seen the photos of the re-opened gyms in Hong Kong with perspex screens between each running machine. There have also been yoga classes with each student confined inside a plastic sheeting cocoon. It looks futuristic, other-worldly – and bleak. On Tuesday, the government announced measures to further ease the lockdown from Saturday 4th
