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Where’s the gain in pain?
I'm not a medical professional, I'm a movement teacher but during the course of my day I spend a great deal of time discussing what pain is, what it feels like and the impact it has on my clients, their families and their lives. Pain is generally recognised as being...
The Myth of multi tasking…
Women, it is said are better at multi tasking. Men, we are told are better at concentrating on one task at a time. The great Choreographer Twyla Tharp concludes in her book 'The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life' That no one can do more than one thing at...
Feel the fear & then what…
Six weeks ago, we adopted a new puppy called Maya. A protracted process which would take 12 weeks, a journey covering approximately 4,600 miles and more good souls than I will ever have the privilege of actually meeting, her foster mum is a dog trainer, and she was...
The Art of resilience
It is said that it is not the strongest who survive but those who adapt the fastest to a changing environment. From an evolutionary point of view things move so slowly we don't even see the changes in generations of lifetimes; our bodies are busy every moment of every...
Compare and despair…
I invite you to take a moment and think about these two words. When I heard a Yoga teacher use this phrase recently it pretty much threw me instantly off my Warrior pose, my practice took a momentary tumble out of balance and into deep inquiry. Our family recently...
Self Love actually…
"I ain't that scarred when I'm covered up" Leave the Light on. Beth Hart. Photo Paul Weaver Hair & Make up Suki Miles It starts with you, the choice is yours. The story is yours to write. And yes all of these things are true but what if you woke up and today is...
A year later…
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer" - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Photo...
Finding the off button.
I had been looking forward to taking my recent vacation from the moment I booked it, there's a certain joy in planning, anticipation and day dreaming through the days ahead. The advantage to travelling to somewhere you know is that the brain already has a selection of...
It’s a matter of Heart
Or the Anahata Chakra if you want to test my newly learned Yoga knowledge. Often regarded as nothing more than a necessary pump as if our bodies were just fishponds full of weeds, algae & mosquitos to be cleared. Our hearts are extaordinary, just take a look at...
