Breathing. You do it all the time, right? Now I’ve mentioned it I bet it feels a bit weird, you’ll be thinking about your breathing, noticing it. How is it? Is it calm and steady? Short and fast? The word…
Cool Down: yoga breathing to cope with hot weather
How to Use Yoga to Cool Down Summer is lovely. But sometimes it just gets a bit too much, the heat, especially on the London Underground, is intense and it can fray even them calmest of tempers. As I write…
#stopdropandbreathe: Top-Up your Stillness
So far this year I have been frequently reminded of the need to take time to stop and breathe. To make time for gratitude and love in our busy schedules. To top-up the stillness within, that can carry us through the…
Addicted to stress?
Are you addicted to stress? Do you jump from one challenge to the next, filling every inch of your calendar? Is your workplace fuelled by caffeine and deadlines? Powered by Stress All too often in our modern world we rely…
How to Use Yoga to Cope with a Bad Day
Do you ever have one of those days where you are tired, a bit stressed but generally OK until someone pushes into you on the tube, or the traffic on your way to work is terrible, or someone sends you…
Mentally Fit: How Yoga Looks After Your Mind
Many people come to yoga because of its excellent ability to improve all over fitness, strength and flexibility, and recent research has shown that you don’t even need to get really sweaty to get fit with yoga - slow, restorative…
A Cow Walks Into A Yoga Studio…
Well no, not my yoga studio but one being used by my friend and fellow Dru Yoga teacher Sylvie More. Now she is teaching in the Himalayas, and her yoga ‘studio’ is a patch of grass outside, but it was still rather…
The Migraine Beating, Brain Balancing Breath
Alternate Nostril Breath (Nadi Shodhan) is a simple and safe yogic breathing technique which helps to balance the two hemispheres of the brain. It is also incredibly beneficial if you suffer from headaches. It was the first yogic breath I…
And…breathe!
The word ‘yoga’ means to ‘yoke’ or ‘unite’. By uniting movement and breath, we really start to see how the benefits our yoga practice can spill into our daily lives. Breathing properly improves our health, increases energy, reduces stress and greatly…
Do you yoga at home?
The Dru Yoga Earth Sequence is one of the most popular things I teach in my classes. You guys love the flow, the synchronisation of the breath and movement and how the repetition allows the mind to calm down. The…