Is sugar the food of love?
In amongst real news at the start of 2014, there’ve been headlines such as ‘The Sugar Trap!’ ‘No more sugar’, ‘Are you addicted to sugar?’ I’m bemused, surely there’s nothing new about the news that too much sugar is bad for us? Bu
Beginning Yoga – why newbies need specialist classes
Many years ago, when I began teaching yoga, my classes included a mixture of people new to yoga, along with more experienced yogis. I found it a difficult balancing act to simultaneously ensure that beginners were safe, and experienced yogis were challenged enough to remain interested
Harrogate Yoga’s new website!
Back in 1999 I moved to Harrogate from a village near Wetherby. I was pleasantly surprised to find that town living was much friendlier than anything I’d experienced during eighteen years of living in a village. In the terrace I moved to, my immediate neighbours had a technology
October 29, 2013
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Getting the Dragon to Fly!
Finding optimal ways of taking weight into our hands, was a theme on a morning workshop here at Harrogate Yoga a few days ago. Ultimately our aim was to have integrity of alignment in poses such as Ardha Vasisthasana, Vasisthasana and ‘Belly of the Dragon.’ The morning beg
Footwork – how to align the feet
A really special part of my week since January has been online Embodied Anatomy study with Amy Matthews. “I love the feet!” she said as we began the first of three classes on the bones and ligaments of the foot. “I do too“, I wanted to shout out at my ipad, &#
Authenticity – with or without make-up
‘Your practice is for you alone. It is difficult to hear the soft voice of inner wisdom amidst the cacophony of constant comparisons. It is simply impossible to sense your soul when you are striving to be superior.‘ Aadil Palkhivala. This was the reading in class last week
How to do Trikonasana – the fluid way
Back in 1991, I had my first experience of Body-Mind Centering® on the beautiful Greek island of Skyros. ‘Sense millions of cells in your body….. expanding and condensing in a breathing rhythm all of their own’, said our teacher, Jens Johannsen. Then we basked in the
Community
For a shy, retiring sort like me, this has been quite a week. It began with last Sunday’s British Wheel of Yoga Northern Region AGM in Durham and ended yesterday with the North Yorkshire BWY Federation at Poppleton, York. I was the teacher at both these events. Much has happened
The Discomfort Zone
Last Thursday I went to a preview of Northern Ballet‘s production of Ondine – due to open for the first time at the Yorkshire Playhouse on Septembe
Touch is a touchy subject
The English Language has many metaphors for behaviour and feeling using skin and touch. ‘Thick-skinned’ folk lack sensitivity or ‘tact’. Tact – from the Latin ‘tactus’ meaning touch – is to delicately touch another. If someone ‘get
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