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…
Why Blending Buddhism With Yoga Is Like Saying A ‘Hand Manicure’ Philosophy on top of philosophy, when does more becomes too much?Should we be looking at subtraction not addition to remain faithful to yoga at its core? Is the quiet power of yoga no longer enough? It’s easy to get caught up in the desire…
Is the current structure of yoga education just one more example of demanded obedience? The guru structure of no questions asked, being told and then expected to follow blindly? Updated quality education is executed WITH someone not TO someone – and should be a collaboration and application rather than a parroting of information that’s never…
How Does Yoga Teach Us the True Meaning of the Glass Half Full? Now I love being in a good stinking mood every now and again but have you ever caught yourself stuck in a cycle of negative thinking? Pratipaksha Bhavana—a concept from the Yoga Sutras (2.33)—is all about shifting perspective. It’s the ultimate “glass…
Consistency is a word I feel a bit icky using in regards to yoga as it has so many toxic connotations of working hard, gruelling schedules and well, it sounds like a drag. However, consistency can be the key to that elusive feel good quality you probably started yoga for in the first place –…
LOOKING AT YOGA: Drishti Translated as sight, view, vision, gaze and more, Drishti is basically a focused gaze. In every yoga pose, there’s a spot we can choose to look at (like a finger, wall or toe) and it can change to where our body is accessible or comfortable, but it’s not really about the…
If yoga was dramatically anti ageing, something undeniably measurable and with guaranteed results for all, well, I’d be typing this from my retirement compound full of dogs with an ageing portrait of myself in the attic. However, there IS evidence that yoga in both its physical and philosophical forms does have some pretty positive impact…