The Curious Person’s Guide to Mindfulness

I am loving my daily yogasana and yoga nidra routine at the moment and would totally recommend it in a second, but I also know that it doesn’t appeal to everyone. You may have heard Mindfulness being thrown around all over the place though. Mindfulness is...

The Yoga Experiment Part 1

For the past week and a half I have been diligently listening to a Yoga Nidra audio by Swami Muktibodhanana Saraswati and promised last week to continue it for a month and post my experiences online. Previously, I have only ever had one yoga nidra session, done in an...

Why bother?

  One thing I seem to be asked more and more is how do I stay motivated. Or better yet, how do I even get motivated to do something. At this point I’d like to point out that I have next to no willpower, so you’ll be glad to hear that’s not my secret. However, I...

Give yourself some down-time

Last weekend I went away for the weekend to Derbyshire and stayed in a lovely little log cabin in the countryside.   We arrived at about 10pm, got out of the car stiff and sleepy but woke up instantly when we opened the door to our cabin and began to explore our...

What’s your fail-safe Funk-fixer?

It occurred to me at the end of a long week this week that I was actually still happy.   You might detect a hint of surprise there, and you’d be right.   It wasn’t so long ago that I’d get in to a funk which could last days, on and off, but days, none the...