Most of us have had that awful feeling where someone posts a photograph of us looking like a potato. You know the one, your face looks like a melted candle and now everyone’s seen it. Bit embarrassing. But imagine being Arjuna (main character of The Bhagavad Gita, yogas ancient philosophical guidance text) You’ve just had…
Stronger Bones From Your Bottom Step If you’re around my age you will remember that if you were lucky your home had a telephone and it was situated usually in your hallway on a special table or piece of furniture dedicated just to that device. Long chats were conducted sitting on the staircase, bottom step…
Less is More: Why Simplicity Sticks in Movement Teaching As movement teachers, many of us, especially in yoga, feel the pull to create ever more elaborate sequences. To keep clients entertained, to keep things fresh. Clever transitions, intricate links and choreography that impresses our peers can become the standard we hold ourselves to. Yet there’s…
Pricing a pop-up or one-off yoga event can feel like a guessing game, especially in today’s climate and seeing sessions priced at magical numbers like £11, £22, £44 feels kind of made up, plucked out of the air to seem special. That’s where the idea of palatable pricing comes in, setting a fee that feels…
From Newspapers to Nesting: Why Yin Editing Matters When you work in newspapers, every single word has to earn its place on the page, each word is revenue and the words are the power not the rag itself. There’s no room for fluff and yin yoga carries a similar lesson. We don’t need to fill…
When ‘Trauma-Informed’ Becomes the New ‘Vino & Vinyasa’ IS trauma really a selling point for yoga? Interestingly, you don’t see this phrase in the Pilates space or in personal training, it seems to be very much the reserve of yoga teachers. Of course, there is a place for having awareness around trauma. In a one-to-one…
As yoga teachers, we’re often encouraged to find and articulate our why—why we teach, why we practice, why this path feels like a calling. And while that reflection can be meaningful, it can also quietly become a distraction. The truth is, the day-to-day reality of teaching yoga is often less about lofty purpose and more…
A Portable Practice A practice in your pocket isn’t about downloading an app you can tap into anywhere or belonging to a club, gang, or team. It’s about knowing how to access your practice without needing to recall a single pose. Like good personal trainers or physiotherapists, yoga teachers should advocate for agency—helping students take…
Savasana. Yes its the whole point but we have more information now than when we trained so lets look at what we know. For every person who feels it is their highlight of the yoga class, there will be somebody that is deeply uncomfortable with it. Whether it’s mental health, ADHD, neurodiversity, trauma, stress or…
Cycles, Samskāras & Self‑Study: Yoga for the Looping Of Life One of the most quietly powerful gifts of yoga is its invitation to notice. The patterns, pulls and pushbacks. To step back. To observe without judgment. While the rest of the world encourages pushing forward, yoga asks us to pause and look at the loops,…