Our choices matter

Our choices matter

Genetics describes DNA sequencing, but the new field of epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and are influenced by our environment and behaviours (inner and outer) and not only that, these changes can be passed on to future generations. In our yoga...
Change your shape, change your state

Change your shape, change your state

I find it a wondrous thing that our bones do not touch each other! We occupy the contained space created by compression and tension. Fascia adapts to how we use our bodies, if we sit for long periods our fascia forms tension patterns, if we spend a lot of time with...
Integration

Integration

The last few years I’ve had an overarching word for the year. A couple of years ago it was EASE, last year it was CONTRIBUTION. This year it is INTEGRATION. Integration can be defined from a couple of angles, one is that integration is combining into wholeness, it can...
Alchemy of practice

Alchemy of practice

I love a quote that I heard a long time ago … “Our practice meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” … and I have found that universally my practice of yoga, meditation, pranayama leaves me in a more centred, comfortable, balanced, clear, and...
A Pause

A Pause

As the year comes to an end at the studio, things wrap up, schools break for the holidays the pace picks up and there is a lot of stress in the air. Taking the time to pause is invaluable. The Kanchukas in yoga philosophy are the cloaks obscuring the truth of who we...