The average city dweller will spend around 11,000 hours of their life commuting to and from work, paying approximately £50,000 for the pleasure. How many times have you been standing on the tube, with some suited giant’s warm armpit pressed against your cheek and a stranger’s backpack rhythmically bashing into your spine, thinking to yourself, […]
Who’s Who and What’s What at 5 of the Internet’s hottest studios Whilst it’s true that London – like many of the world’s capital cities – has more yoga studios than ever before, it can still be difficult to get to class. With long days in the office, kids’ after-school rotas, socialising and the need
The summer holidays are over, the conkers are beginning to fall, and we’re beginning to think about putting the heating on – it’s time to embrace the beautiful season of Autumn! Autumn is a transitional season, which takes us from the relaxing warmth of summer to the crisp cold of winter. Transitions can be a
Ever fancied heading to a yoga show, but haven’t quite got round to it? Poppy Pickles and Joshua LeClair spent the day at the Om Yoga Show at Alexandra Palace so that we could report back on whether the yoga show is all it’s cracked up to be. The day started well at the magnificent
If you’re one of the multitudes of people who have booked holidays this summer, you’ll be wondering if you should just cancel it now, or wait and see. But the truth is, due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, it’s unlikely we’ll be jetting off to foreign climes for holidays in 2020. The official line from
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.
Once we start to move beyond a purely physical practice, and come to appreciate the deeper psychological dimensions of yoga, we start to see that it’s not all about poses. Yoga is about finding a sense of awareness that connects us to ourselves and to life itself. It’s possible to have the most impressive asana
It’s not how much we have, it’s what we think about we have that produces happiness. Thoughts of scarcity make us function in deficit, so life begins to look bleak and that affects everything: our relationships, money, love, security, purpose, image and our overall quality of life. Scarcity is a blindness, and the media and
Keen yogi and former Radio 1 presenter, Fearne Cotton regularly practises yoga with her children, four-year-old Rex, and two-year-old Honey. In addition to frequently posting snaps of them having fun on the mat together, she has called for yoga to be put on the school curriculum to help improve children’s wellbeing.She told London’s Evening Standard:
Barely two months after graduating from my 200-hour teacher training course, I landed a regular teaching slot at one of the most exclusive clubs in the UK. This isn’t me bragging, but contemplating ‘how on earth did that happen?!’ How do you land a yoga job when you’re a fresh graduate (or newbie)? What is
