MINDFULNESS AND YOGA WITH JANET
When you feel very unsafe your sympathetic nervous system springs into action and prepares you to fight or flight or maybe freeze and/or collapse; your body tenses up and it becomes difficult to yield to the Earth for support. We all have varying levels of feeling safe. Whatever makes You feel unsafe may not have…
Are you Confused about the way the world is being run? Do you find yourself listening to a variety of You Tube videos on different topics happening around the world and the TV News? Do you wish perhaps that things were a bit more like they used to be, when perhaps they made SLIGHTLY more…
I’m no expert on Brigid , born 450 to 521, the Celtic pagan goddess or Saint Brigid, however the words Divine Feminine Energy resonate with me and I perceive Brigid as That. I feel that Brigid is a remarkable female Celtic goddess and/or Saint that represents our divine feminine energy, attributes and qualities that…
Hatha Yoga Classes for 2023 which offer you support in this fast paced, changing world we are living in. I practice Yoga to help me move freely and with lightness, finding the effortlessness in the effort . Feeling the aliveness within me that connects the mind and body. This way of practicing is very grounding…
As women living in todays patriarchal society have forgotten how to roar. We have had our roar suppressed for centuries we have been taught to be quiet and subservient, of course in some cultures much more so than others. Women must learn to Roar like a Goddess once more. The Hindi Goddess Durga is the…
We evolved from the ocean so the evolution of movement begins in the sea. We were water creatures. We had scaly skin and swam with heads and tails. Then we evolved feet and fins and crawled onto the land. We grew 4 limbs and then stood up and walked on them and then stood up…
Forgiveness is very difficult, because it doesn’t come naturally to our negative mindset, we prefer to blame the ‘other’, it’s easier and more self-fulfilling. We tell ourselves, ‘ I didn’t do anything wrong!’ or ‘If they hadn’t done/said this or that, then I wouldn’t have done/said this or that.’ There’s an idea that you can…
There’s a growing trend to push the body to extremes, with many more extreme sports using the words ‘ultra’ and ‘iron’ to define achievement. There is a definite lack of mindful body awareness (interoception) among the population. Nowadays people are aggressively pushing their body and mind to achieve more and more. This morning a young…
Yoga is the love of my life. I don’t mean simply doing Yoga asana. I mean living a yogic lifestyle. I’m practicing Yoga 22 years now, I still think I came to it late in life (38) but such a delight when I did. To find a way to immediately self regulate my anxiety without…
Why is everyone so distracted nowadays? We are all looking for the next thing to buy or experience, we are never satisfied with the present moment somehow it is never good enough. “There must be something better than this, mustn’t there?” We say to ourselves, but what? Mindfulness Meditation heals the body/mind disconnection. When I…