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‘crawling back to baby’
August 17, 2015
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“Here we are – a group of middle-class, middle-aged women, CRAWLING around the room!” said a student in class recently. It’s true that we often practise crawling and other developmental movement patterns in my classes. The reason we practise the patterns is bot
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Mula bandha is good for you, right?
February 12, 2015
‘Mula bandha should be ON for life!’ Said Derek Ireland my first teacher of Astanga Vinyasa yoga. I think most yoga practitioners would agree that to constantly engage mula bandha is extreme, yet many believe it’s a practice that’s ‘good for you.’ WHAT IS
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Behind the scenes at Harrogate Yoga
October 06, 2014
‘Have you had a nice break?’ is a common question from my students when classes begin again in September. Luckily no one asked me, because I would’ve said: ‘I’ve had one of the most challenging times in my life and I’m on my knees – so the ans
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How to find support from the core for a healthy spine
August 18, 2014
‘Build core strength’, ‘tone your abs’, or as my son would say ‘get a God Bod’! These exhortations are usually aimed at strengthening the superficial abdominal muscles – the ‘six pack’. A common way to achieve these objectiv
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‘Yoga and Injury’ by guest blogger – Kay Manby
July 09, 2014
A G MOHAN wrote…”All of us have experienced times when it felt as though everything was coming apart, disintegrating around us into so many pieces, and we were without a way of holding them together. Yet often what is fragmented and chaotic about the situation is not the event
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