Do you like to move it, move it? I certainly want to be able to move my body freely in every direction for as long as I live, who doesn’t? Moving is primal, we were made to move – to run, walk, skip, dance but not in a linear way – in an instinctive way….
Inner Peace – World Peace.
International Day of Peace 2022 All the wise sages of our time have told us that we must connect to our sense of inner peace first then we can unite together in world peace. Inner Peace – World Peace. If you are at war in your mind with conflict and hatred, resentment and judgement then…
How Are You Feeling?
How are you feeling since the 24th February? You may not remember from that exact date, but I do, because there was a collective or global seismic shift in the level of fear and trauma around the world and I felt that. Maybe you did too or it exacerbated underlying feelings of trauma and anxiety…
The Evolution of Movement
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
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…
What is Embodied Yoga?
Over the space of many years I have shifted from making Yoga shapes ( asana) to developing a practice of embodied movement or embodied Yoga. As a beginner when you join a Yoga class you have to practice putting your body into new shapes which it does not usually make during every day life and…
Living with the Future
Before you read any further – take a Pause – breathing in slightly deeper and breathing out slightly slower. Do this a few times until you feel your body begin to settle into the chair and your mind start to slow down. You may wish to close your eyes or focus softly on one thing…
The Gentle Art of Letting Go
What happens when instead of Letting Go you hold on to your rage, fear, jealousy, shame, grief or some other emotion? Firstly it’s not just a repetitive dialogue that you’re having with yourself in your head. Emotions and feelings live in your body, they hibernate in your connective tissues when ignored and suppressed. ‘Your issues…
Negotiating a Crumbling World
Life is a bit surreal at the moment and negotiating this crumbling world can feel difficult at times. One might even say events happening now are on a biblical scale, with fires running wild in some countries, floods doing the same, earthquakes wrecking havoc, wars, thousands of people running for fear of their lives in…
Mindful Body Awareness
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…