Welcome to your e-guide to the chakra system! Here, we will be exploring what the chakras are, how they relate to you and how you can improve your health and wellbeing by giving yourself a chakra check-up. We’ll also look at the many many ways to balance and restore them. But first… What Are Chakras? […]
Yoga may be about as good as physiotherapy for treating lower back pain, according to a new study published in a major medical journal. The results of the long-term study, which involved a large and racially diverse group of participants, come as welcome scientific support for using yoga as a therapy for back pain. Whilst
Headstand is one of my favourite poses. A headstand demands much. It requires strength AND flexibility, but that is not all. Turning upside-down and balancing on your head takes courage. And self-belief. A headstand is a mental and physical challenge that, once mastered, continues to be a highlight of time spent on the mat. Though
The yoga of finding joy in the midst of suffering. The capacity to feel joy is a gift we all possess. You only need hear a baby laugh to know that the ability to be joyful is a natural and innate thing. But, life being life, we all inevitably go through periods where we can
Sex: an intimate moment shared between two people. How can yoga benefit and increase your experience with your partner? Yoga can connect you to your inner self to help you better open up. Not only can it work on an emotional level, it can work your muscles, making sex even more pleasurable. This practice will
New Year’s Resolutions, remember those? By the end of January, we’re a month into the year already, approaching the point where good intentions might be starting to ebb. So here’s how the yogic practice of tapas, the yogic ethos of ‘fiery cleansing’, can re-energise your efforts to bring your aspirations to fruition, and invigorate you,
Vinyasa means ‘to place in a special way’. It is often used to describe a specific style of yoga ie Vinyasa Flow. But it seems to me that we move in a ‘special way’ in all styles of yoga. We move our limbs in a particular direction; we tense some muscles but relax others, and
Vinyasa Flow is hands down one of the most, if not the single most popular styles of yoga. It is widely practiced by millions of yoga practitioners and can be very versatile depending on the studio you visit. If we translated Vinyasa, it would loosely translate to “arranging something in a special way”. That is
Week after week, British TV audiences were left staring in wonder at their TV screens as they watched 59-year-old Debbie McGee perform dance moves that would flummox most 20 year olds in last season’s Strictly Come Dancing. One particularly agile routine, with her professional dance partner Giovanni Pernice, included her doing the splits no less
Enjoy this simple, nutrient-packed, sprouted lentil salad. Sprouting is the practice of germinating seeds from grains, nuts, beans and other kinds of seeds. Once sprouted, they are bioavailable and easier to digest, with your body being able to access their full nutritional profile. Prep: 20 minutes Makes: 4 servings Ingredients 4 cups sprouted black lentils
