Do you have back pain? How does your back feel right now? No pain and fancy free? Or a bit crunchy and tight? Or maybe its giving you quite a lot of hassle? If it is the latter two you…
Three Stretches to Shrug off Your Shoulder Pain
Sitting in front of your computer, your neck and shoulders start to ache. After hours staring at the screen, typing furiously on the keyboard, you suddenly notice that your back is hunched, shoulders rounded, chest squeezed and you’ve started to…
How to Ease Back Pain Without Leaving Your Office Chair
Using Camel Pose, aka Ustrasana, to ease back pain in your (office) chair Why bother? 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…
Get started with my Beginner’s Guide to Yoga course
Beginner’s Guide to Yoga course 9 – 10am Saturdays 25 April – 30 May Want to start yoga but feel you’d like to find out what it is all about first? Would like to take it slow so you can really understand what…
Yoga is for life, not just for January!
A new year, a time when we tend towards reflection and think about things being ‘better’ than the year before. I’m always looking for ways to have more fun and do less work (who isn’t!?) and as part of my mission to…
Ultimate Relaxation: Winter Bath Recipe
Having a lovely hot bath is one of my favourite ways to relax. I adore it. Relaxation comes in many forms and for me this is always top of my list! I have come up with my ultimate, indulgent, relaxing…
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…