Are Fitness Trackers Doing Us More Harm Than Good? Fitness trackers and wearable tech promise to help us stay on top of our health—tracking our steps, monitoring our sleep, measuring our heart rate. It all sounds helpful, even empowering and of course can be essential for health issues. But what if, instead of improving our…
Batch Cooking For Yoga Teachers What? As the name suggest batch cooking is a really useful way of planning several classes at once. (On my Yin Yoga Teacher refresher course I use this as an expanded idea and show you how to create a years worth of classes in one sitting) Find my digital course…
Title: Seated & Completed What: Chair Yoga Teacher Training Course Who For: A Structured Guide for Educators & Wellness Professionals Providing Continued Educational Development Course Overview This training is designed to equip teachers, wellness professionals, and caregivers with the skills and knowledge to confidently lead chair yoga sessions. The course explores the foundations of chair…
Having a handy blurb template on your phone is an invaluable time saver. We all know there is no worse text than a studio or employer asking for a picture and a little bit about yourself, urgh. Heres one I bashed out in December and its been well received, feel free to copy it, I…
I lost my job teaching yoga, here’s what I did- it’s one for the yoga teachers. I’ve worked in a lot of different places from the salubrious to the scruffy and I’ve also left places – and been asked to leave. Sometimes your personal life changes, your workload shifts, sometimes you don’t like the working…
4 ideas for freshening up a set yoga sequence without changing a thing. 1️⃣Try adding the concept of ‘up and down’. In every shape invite the option to explore reaching up an inch, reaching down an inch and feel into what they prefer, the qualities that both have and give to the shape and being…
Yoga Like A Fine Wine? We all definitely end up settling into a style of yoga or a teacher that suits our tastes. Something tried and tested , does what it says on the label and dosn’t make us feel funny or leave us with a nasty taste. Like a good wine, yoga needs a…
The five kleshas (‘clay-shas’) in the Yoga sutras as known as afflictions, often translated as poisons and seen as the root of our discontent. We could simply think of them as obstacles in our minds that make us unhappy. They are: 1.Ignorance/delusion avidya 2.Ego asmita 3.Attachment raga 4.Aversion dvesa 5.Fear of death/change abinivesah These can…
The Bhagavad Gita in a Nutshell: A Timeless Guide To Finding Purpose and Peace Have you ever felt torn between duty and desire? Unsure of your path in life? If so, you’re not alone and this ancient text provides guidance to timeless problems we can all relate to, it is the key text of yoga…
To be clear, sound has a completely different relationship to yoga and rest…but playlists, tracks and tunes… what’s the nitty gritty? There are so many great conversations out there and personally I love that challenge to my own comfort and narrative as a teacher and practitioner. Here’s my flip flops on music as a key…