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Cool Down: Yoga Breathing to Cope with Hot Weather

July 1, 2015 Health and wellbeing, Yoga postures No comments yet
Condensation on a bottle of water

How to Use Yoga to Cool Down

Summer is lovely. 

But sometimes it just gets a bit too much, the heat, especially when commuting, is intense and it can fray even them calmest of tempers.

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The Times They … Changed

May 14, 2015 My story 7 comments

In July 2015 Lucyoga moved away from London. Wrapped up in a number of changes in my personal life, it was a difficult decision but a necessary one, to leave south London.

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#stopdropandbreathe: Top-Up your Stillness

March 27, 2015 Health and wellbeing No comments yet

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 hardest of times.

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Three Stretches to Shrug off Your Shoulder Pain

February 25, 2015 Yoga postures No comments yet
A stretch using a yoga strap

Ouch! Are your neck and shoulders starting to ache? Do you have that nagging shoulder pain again? Have you spent hours staring at a screen, typing furiously? Noticed that your back is hunched, shoulders rounded, chest squeezed?

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How to Ease Back Pain Without Leaving Your Office Chair

January 28, 2015 Yoga postures No comments yet

Using Camel Pose, aka Ustrasana, to ease back pain in your (office) chair

Sitting down all day in the office can create a humped upper back as we lean over keyboards and stare at computer screens. We scrunch up in the middle and get a droop in the shoulders, leading to aching, stiff spines and quite often fully-fledged back pain.

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Addicted to stress?

November 17, 2014 Health and wellbeing, Workshops No comments yet
"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you return to your work your judgement will be surer" (Leonardo Da Vinci)

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?

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How to Use Yoga to Cope with a Bad Day

July 29, 2014 Health and wellbeing No comments yet
Slow sign on the road with shadow of person doing Tree posture

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 a really annoying email (or all of these things in one go)?

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Mentally Fit: How Yoga Looks After Your Mind

May 12, 2014 Health and wellbeing 1 comment

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 yoga can have a marked impact on weight loss and cardiovascular health.

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A Cow Walks Into A Yoga Studio…

April 14, 2014 Classes, Yoga postures No comments yet
A himalayan cow

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 unexpected!

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Be Your Own Valentine

February 10, 2014 Classes, Health and wellbeing No comments yet

Valentines Day. I have always tended to ignore it, brushing it aside as a ploy to sell tacky cards, over-priced chocolates and to fill mediocre restaurants with swooning couples.

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