Smells Like Endurance Culture Trail running. Hyrox. Ultra events. Long-distance challenges. Recovery metrics. Electrolytes becoming a personality trait. According to recent reporting from Fit Insider and wider wellness trend forecasting, endurance culture is having a real moment right now. Maybe it’s a Covid hangover. People started walking more. Running more. Spending more time outside. Endurance…
The Flat Cap: The Costume of Spirituality in Modern Wellness In the north of England, the flat cap wasn’t originally fashion. It was practical. It kept rain off men working long days outdoors. Men grafting in factories, fields and shipyards. Men hunting because they needed food on the table, not because it was a leisurely…
There comes a point in many yoga journeys when we find the studio. The teacher whose classes just make sense. The room that feels like home. The familiar faces. The mat in the same corner. The Tuesday evening ritual that quietly becomes non-negotiable. It becomes the place to be. There’s nothing wrong with that. Community…
Sometimes we think we’re buying yoga but really we’re buying the story. The story that says; I’m someone who takes care of myself.The story that says; Today I chose to pause. The story that says; I listened when my body whispered instead of waiting for it to shout. Corporate wellbeing works the same way. Management…
The Thing Isn’t The Thing Kurt Vonnegut, the novelist known for finding profound truths in ordinary moments, once told a story about going out to buy a single envelope. His wife suggested he buy a hundred and keep them in a cupboard. It would be more efficient. More sensible , yes, but efficiency wasn’t really…
What if your discipline is just your anxiety in a nicer outfit? One of the stranger things I’ve noticed in yoga is how often tidiness becomes a moral virtue. Teachers jokingly shame students who don’t put props away. Mats must line up perfectly. Blocks must be stacked just so. Somewhere along the way someone quotes,…
What Timothée Chalamet Accidentally Taught Me About Being a Yoga Teacher Over the past week there has been a small but interesting conversation happening in the arts world. Actor Timothée Chalamet recently faced criticism after remarks suggesting he wouldn’t want to work in ballet or opera because they are art forms that “no one cares…
Vairagya (pronounced vai-RAHG-yah) is often translated as non-attachment but that can sound a bit cold or distant. In yoga it’s actually much more tender than that. Vairagya is the practice of letting go without hardening, of releasing your grip while keeping your heart open. It’s not about pushing feelings away or pretending you don’t care,…
The Farmer & The Field A simple yoga teaching from The Bhagavad Gītā. In the Bhagavad Gītā, the body is described as a field. The Sanskrit word is kṣetra (k-sheh-truh) , ‘the field’. Then equally as important, there is the one who knows the field, kṣetrajña (k-sheh-truh-gyah) , ‘the knower of the field’. To make…
Chidakāśa: The Kind of Space We All Need Yoga philosophy is full of beautiful concepts that sometimes feel like they belong more in a candle lit cave rather than everyday life. Chidakāśa is one of them. It translates roughly to “the space of consciousness,” but before you switch off stay with me because this idea…