I travelled a long way over the holiday period. I mean that literally, though it might also be true metaphorically as staying with family is often a time of heightened emotions, awareness of our interconnectedness and of the brief span of human lives — and how we love to complicate them! But actually I’m simplyContinue reading “Breathing in the new year”
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Autumn = Fall
This year I have been meeting weekly with a group of students who mostly live in the US and I love how they talk about this season as ‘the fall’. In my ears the word is so evocative. The trees shedding their leaves, all gold and red and crispy underfoot. I can almost scent theContinue reading “Autumn = Fall”
Yoga as Self Care
What does self care mean to you? If anything…? For myself, I think I went a long time in my life without consciously caring for myself. Self care sounded a weird idea, not something I felt I particularly needed. I got by OK and that was enough for me. Partly this might have been trueContinue reading “Yoga as Self Care”
Give yourself a helping hand in meditation
There’s a pun in the title! Meditation is all about thoughts — or so we might think! And in some ways that might be true. But being with our thoughts (let alone trying to slow them down or even change them!) can be difficult and abstract. How about we give ourselves a helping hand —Continue reading “Give yourself a helping hand in meditation”
Phew, it’s not new year any longer
Hello February! How I welcome you! Not because you offer much relief from wintry grey skies, not because there’s anything particularly joyful about the month (for me at least) personally or professionally, but at least there’s a respite from the ‘new year, new you’ vibes of social media (and the more toxic corners of theContinue reading “Phew, it’s not new year any longer”
An affirmation of living
I remember once on a silent retreat being invited to do a walking meditation. Shoes off, I wandering around the gardens, feeling the grass tickling my toes, noticing the the coolness of the air on bare skin, looking down to where I was treading as well as looking up to experience my wider surroundings —Continue reading “An affirmation of living”
In the flow
Vinyasa Yoga is often also called ‘flow yoga’, sometimes — unhelpfully in my view — equated with Power Yoga. In Vinyasa yoga postures are strung together so the transition between postures is seamless, using the breath to initiate the movements. In this way the transitions are as much part of the practice as any individual posture.Continue reading “In the flow”
Seeing the detail
How long have you been practising yoga? Whatever length of time it is, whether months or a decade or more, one experience common to everyone is how many times you repeat common poses. In the vinyasa style sequencing is more creative than the set Ashtanga sequence for example, but even so many poses crop upContinue reading “Seeing the detail”
Zoom room or studio?
I saw this bit of graffiti as I walked back from class this week. YOG. I laughed out loud. Something about the synchronicity, how this bit of vandalism paralleled my day, amused me. I was still laughing when I got home and my husband commented how different I was after my yoga class. He saidContinue reading “Zoom room or studio?”
Yoga away from home
The continuation of online yoga classes means that it’s possible to keep up your practice and class attendance even when you’re away from home. If you’ve never tried yoga while you’re on holiday, you might be missing a treat! Provided that family or travelling companions can give you space for an hour (unless they wantContinue reading “Yoga away from home”
Victoria Jackson Yoga 