Image of Savasana Savasana (in Sanskrit "Corpse Pose"), is traditionally the last pose of a yoga class, where we take rest and absorb the...

It's the start of December. In Scotland it's cold, damp, dark - not the kind of weather or environment where you would naturally want to...

The 21st of May is World Meditation Day. Whilst it's great to have a day to focus on meditation, it's not just a case of sitting in...

I've been doing more yoga training recently, which has led inevitably to more thinking. This can be good or (which is more likely) can...

I finally succumbed to COVID on 1st July. Being honest, I thought that maybe practicing yoga regularly and doing pranayama (breathing...

Practicing yoga in class with other people is great. The energy, the direction and adjustments from a qualified teacher is all really...

The other day, I came across an email a colleague had sent me this time last year. In it he said "I hope next year is better than 2020"....

I’ve been practicing yoga for several decades and touched upon lots of styles in that time. My teacher training programme in 2018 had an...

"I'm not flexible enough to do yoga". I hear this a lot. My response: would you go to French lessons if you could already speak the...

Back in the olden days (pre-COVID), when I was in an actual Ashtanga yoga class, there were lots of people there doing, what I considered...

As I was graduating from my teacher training course in the summer of 2019, someone asked me what I wanted to do with my qualification. ...

I attended a beginners' Ashtanga yoga class earlier this week with Jean McInerney (at Yoga Rose). I was looking to pick up another class...

Ahmisa is the first of the Yoga Yamas (Restraints) and Niyamas (positive observances). Ahimsa is often translated as non-violence,...

In Scotland, gyms and yoga studios are set to re-open at the end of August. However, I don't think this is going to mean we will (or...

We've all been to yoga classes where everyone around us seems to be doing postures "better" than we are. We know that yoga is not a...

So, we're still in lock-down. However, we can stay positive and count our blessings. Things are slowly getting back to normal, but...

At the time of writing this, lock-down has been extended until the beginning of May. The Furlough Scheme has been extended until the end...

My last post was 17 March 2020 - life feels even more alien than it did a couple of weeks ago. Everyone has experienced an extreme...

Wow, a lot has happened since my last blog post! Life, as we know it, has turned completely on its head. COVID-19 brought out the...

In the past couple of months I've been privileged to participate in and teach yoga classes in my local community. Some of these have...