Lower back pain is the number one cause for complaints. Most people will experience back pain at some point in their lives. Why is back pain so prevalent? Ready, set, sit! Most of our lives are spent sitting; the commute to work, sitting at work, the commute home, sit down to dinner, and sit down […]
Sequencing a normal length class is challenging enough, but what about if you only have a short amount of time? How can you ensure that your students still get a well-balanced practice? Let’s look into the different ways that you can make this work as a yoga teacher. Getting the timing right in your yoga
Ever felt completely connected to the world around you – whether you’re watching the sunset on a beautiful beach, playing with your children in the park, or simply relishing in the glow of a particularly inspiring yoga class? The sensation of spine-tingling energy travelling through the whole body, and of deep connection to yourself and others,
Yoga is a fantastic way to tune back into yourself, especially over the Christmas period when over-indulgence and stress can run high. Here Poppy Pickles delves into some yoga techniques for self-care at Christmas. As the darkness of midwinter encroaches, the barometer plunges and the trees have shed all but a few leaves. We start
Some students have a tendency to skip through plank pose as they rush on into chaturanga dandasana. But is this fair? Planks can be modified to strengthen shoulders and progressed to build core control. Here’s how to bring planks to life and allow your students to love them as they deserve. The Power of Plank Pose Planks in their various
YogaLondon’s exclusive course on the Philosophy of Yoga is run jointly by YogaLondon (YL) and the prestigious Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS). We talked to our very own co-founders, Edward Serrano and Rebecca Ffrench, who gave us the inside info on this new partnership. How did the partnership between YogaLondon and the OCHS come
The global pandemic has changed all our lives – there will be BC (Before Coronavirus) and AC (After Coronavirus) – and it may well be that the way we teach yoga will be altered for a while to come. Rather than being depressed or concerned, we can be prepared for this new way of working.
Ayurveda, translating directly as ‘life-knowledge’, is an ancient Eastern health practice. Modern-day practices exist all over the world, but Western science is only recently catching up. Research in this field has been dubbed ‘ayur-nutri-genomics’, or in other words, a combination of Ayurveda, nutrition and genetics. This new science focusses on how food can play an important
The number of men practising yoga is growing. According to the 2016 Yoga in America Study by Yoga Journal and the Yoga Alliance, of those practising yoga in America, 28 percent are men. Though that may not sound very high, it’s up significantly from the mere 17.8 percentage of men identified in the 2012 edition
We all know that yoga is a great complement for other sports, but can other sports enhance our yoga practice? Since lockdown began, back in the dawn of time – or just over three months ago – many of us have branched out into other forms of exercise, the most obvious one being more regular
