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Moving Body – Quiet Mind

“Lie down on your mat and begin to check in with your breathing…” is a common instruction at the start of a yoga class but does this work for everyone? Many years ago I had a private student who would invariably arrive for class in a hyperactive, agitated state. I soon learned t
October 29, 2015
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Ashtanga Yoga, Body-Mind Centering®, Embody-Move, mental health, movement, Peter Levine, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, stress, trauma, Yin Yoga, yoga classes in Harrogate, yoga therapy

Mula bandha is good for you, right?

‘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
February 12, 2015
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Breathing, chronic bladder pain, chronic pelvic pain, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, fascia, interstitial cystitis, kegels, lumbricals, mental health, mula bandha, myofascial trigger points, pelvic diaphragm, pelvic floor, pelvic pain, prostatitis, pudendal nerve, pudendal nerve entrapment, pudendal neuralgia, thoracic diaphragm, vestibulitis, vulvodynia, well-being

Behind the scenes at Harrogate Yoga

‘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
October 06, 2014
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Happiness, harrogate yoga, House renovations, Jessica Hogarth wallpaper, Le Tour Harrogate, le tour yorkshire, Margo Selby fabric, meditation, mental health, well-being, wellbeing, Yoga, Yoga classes Harrogate

Living in the moment

Fear and how it can negate our ability to live in the present moment, was the theme of my quote for classes last week. The reading came from a book on Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh: ‘When we are not fully present, we are not really living. We’re not really there, either for our loved
March 24, 2014
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Antonio Damasio, breath, Breathing, consciousness, fear, Happiness, joy, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, present moment, Thich Nhat Hanh, well-being, wellbeing

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
January 25, 2014
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addiction, Amanda Latchmore, Beginners yoga classes in Harrogate, cake, Happiness, harrogate yoga, health, Is sugar the food of love?, love, mental health, sugar, sugar addiction, Yoga classes Harrogate, yoga classes in Harrogate, Yoga Harrogate

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
November 11, 2012
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Beginners yoga classes in Harrogate, chilloutyoga, community, Happiness, harrogate yoga, harrogateyoga, mental health, Sweaty Betty Harrogate, well-being, wellbeing, Yoga classes Harrogate, yoga classes in Harrogate, Yoga Harrogate

In the Harbour or out at Sea?

‘A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.’ I read this quote by John A. Shedd in class last week. A lot of discussion was provoked by very few words. As one student said, “there’s a lot in there”. Some of the comments related d
October 07, 2012
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acceptance, Amanda Latchmore Art, authenticity, courage, dharma, Happiness, health, John A. Shedd, mental health, Monopoly, Robert Maxwell, soul, Victor Watson, Waddingtons, well-being, wellbeing

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
September 01, 2012
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Amanda Latchmore Art, Dr.Clarissa Pinkola Estes, meditation, mental health, Northern Ballet, Ondine, Shvetasvatara Upanishad, Undine, well-being, wellbeing, West Yorkshire Playhouse

Rehab

No, I’m not secretly recovering from an alcohol or drug addiction. A while back I wrote a blog about getting injured and the challenges that posed. My re-habilitation/path to recovery has been slow but illuminating.  I’ve learned that on the whole, allopathic doctors have
June 23, 2012
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breath, Caroline Scott Feldenkrais, Downward Facing Dog, Feldenkrais, Happiness, meditation, mental health, rehab, well-being, wellbeing

The Tethered Camel

A couple of weeks ago I was saying to one of my students that I wished I was free to travel to exotic, far-flung places and attend yoga workshops of special interest to me, but how the constraints of my teaching schedule prevented me from doing these things. She said “Ahhhh R
March 09, 2012
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Authentic Movement, Five Top Regrets of the Dying, Happiness, health, mental health, well-being, wellbeing
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About Amanda

“I began practising yoga in 1972 and I loved the effect it had on me – of gradually becoming stronger in mind and body, more resilient to life’s ups and downs, more connected to my feelings, more joyful and more creative. Both my yoga journey and my creativity gained momentum in the early nineties, it was at this time that I was privileged to begin learning Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga………….”

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