Aroma Yoga: on and off the mat

Did you know that essential oils, as well as smelling delightful, have an emotional and energetic resonance and can actually change your mood and affect your body chemistry?! Using them on and off the mat can hold huge benefits. Here’s a simple guide to which oils are useful for your practice and how they can impact your life off the mat too.

Home Practice - keep moving to keep well

During uncertain and somewhat confusing times, I’d like to share with you a guide line for a basic practice that you can do at home every day.

We all know the basic principles of keeping ourselves and our loved ones healthy and well so I'm not talk here about handwashing and sanitising and safe distances etc. But I would like to remind you of the benefits to your health and your immune system of doing mindful movement and breathing practices.

What is Somatic Movement

  • Build greater awareness of your body and it's capabilities and limitations

  • Release tension from painful muscles and joints

  • Learn how to prevent painful and lasting tension 

  • Practice mindfulness - find calmness and compassion in the body and mind

Dancers' Pose

As ‘Strictly’ fever sweeps the nation, and we move from Len’s famous ‘sev-en’ into the nines’s and 10’s, the celebrities start to look like real dancers.  But what makes a dancer’s posture so distinguishable?  We asked ex-dancer Jeni Howland – now Somatics and yoga teacher – to shed some light on this question.

That poise and elegance that a dancer has, comes from years of training the body, but here’s a selection of hacks for getting the graceful glide of Anton or Oti:

Pea Soup Recipe

This super simple recipe came out of having a big family meal where there was an entire pan of peas that were left-over. It's simple and delicious and nutritious!  

Me Too: Yoga for Trauma

There are many books and articles and sources of information about how yoga can help trauma, my goal here is to offer a few exercises that are simple and easy to integrate into your everyday life. I hope these ideas may lead you to looking deeper into how yoga can help you.

Survey: What Yoga Workshop appeals to you?

Can you help me? There's an opportunity to win a doTERRA Peppermint Essential Oil!!
In Autumn this year I will be running a series of yoga workshops and I'd love to know what themes you'd like to see. These workshops will involve a series of weekly classes at Clerkenwellbeing, London. If you'd be interested in attending these workshops then please answer these questions.

Spring Clean Your Life

In London, the blossoms are coming out, the birds are tweeting, the sun is warming and we all take a deep breath! During my Teacher Training course, my Yoga Teacher, Randall O'Leary of Jungle Yoga said "Make Space for Magic" and this has been my motto ever since. In order to allow great new things into your life, you have to make space: let go of that which no longer serves you. 

Here's 5 things you can do to Spring Clean your life today.