‘Transitions’ (getting from A to B and staying calm)
In my work as a yoga teacher and movement therapist, I’ve noticed that considerable stress for some individuals arises in their ‘transitions’. By transitions, I mean how they go from one place to another, one task to the next. It was as if they wanted to ‘apparate’ themselves &
January 22, 2012
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My Manic Week
One of the first things I say to a new group of Beginners is that through practising yoga we’re aiming to increase our resilience to life’s ups and downs, especially the stuff that’s out of our control. Last Wednesday my Beginners had a graphic example of their Yoga
September 28, 2011
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timeless.. weightless…spacious
‘Soft Spine, Bony Spine, Fluid Movement and Structural Integrity’ – is the title of a workshop I’m running in Suffolk this weekend. In preparation, I explored some of these themes with my classes during the week. We began with a look at a picture of the vertebral col
Inspiration from Pina Bausch and revisiting ‘Saggy Cat’
I was doing some work in my front garden a few days ago, when one of my students walked by and then stopped to tell me about the film she’d just seen. The film was Pina. My student said ‘Now I have some understanding of what you’ve been trying to teach us in class!’ Having read about
Playfulness
I learned long ago that muddle and uncertainty can be the melting pot for creativity. The tricky bit is tolerating the discomfort and staying with the process until things unfold. Curiosity and playfulness can help with this. My daughter recently went on a clowning workshop; the parti
April 30, 2011
Soul of the Home
“Care for our houses….however humble, is also care of the soul. No matter how little money we have, we can be mindful of the importance of beauty in our homes.’’ These are the words of Thomas Moore in ‘Care of the Soul – how to add depth and meaning to your everyday life’
Support from the Earth
Last week I wrote about the Yield and Push developmental movement pattern. Thoughts about yielding continued to travel through my mind since I watched and heard with horror the news of the earthquake and aftermath, in Japan. We gain so much reassurance from our relationship with the g
March 19, 2011
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Acorns to Oak Trees
A regular theme in my classes is ‘Yield and Push’. Through exploring this developmental movement pattern we are aiming for an embodied sense of good alignment in yoga asana that leads to a clear sense of good alignment from within, rather than lots of rules about ‘th
March 14, 2011
Spirals
As an artist I’ve always loved to draw curved shapes – the curves of the human form and curves from nature. Straight lines have never had much appeal. I say I can’t draw a straight line but I think the truth is that I’m just not very interested in them. Give me a human body, flowers a
Amanda’s week off – mind blissfully focused on pruning the roses
I’ve found my mind blissfully focused in a week with almost no teaching but with time to attend to my garden. The tasks I most enjoy in the garden are pruning and feeding, and this is the time of year for roses to receive this attention. First I assessed the overall shape and took not
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