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…
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…
How I became a Hiitgirl
If you can, cast your mind back to those halcyon days of summer last. Along with the glorious sunshine you might recall that I won a competition with Sweaty Betty? No? Well you can read all about it here. In…
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…
I won #Fitin5!
A month ago I decided to see how far my body had really come over the last few months and take on a fitness challenge set by Hiitgirl Susan Dyson and Sweaty Betty. I embarked on the challenge with determination but…
#Fitin5 and how I’m learning to trust my body
You may have noticed some tweets and other social media updates about something called #Fitin5. #Fitin5 is a high intensity workout set by Hiitgirl Susan Dyson and being championed by Sweaty Betty. I have decided to join in on the…