MINDFULNESS AND YOGA WITH JANET
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fierce mIndfulness is mindfulness that is practiced with a passion. Having the will and determination to connect to our deeper sense of Self and to sense a connection to every living being, from an awakened heart space. A fierce mindfulness practice is not a struggle to get somewhere or fix yourself. It is a calling…
As we see in America and the world there is a lot of racial injustice embedded in the system. So how can we practice Mindfulness Compassion for equality? How can we hold ourselves accountable? Individually we all have a role to play in Justice for all Races. Is it right to sit back and say,…
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…
There’s been plenty of food for thought over the past year, pardon the pun but not much mindful eating! Food has been one of our few pleasures over the past year as many of our activities and hobbies ceased due to covid 19 lockdowns. We have to eat 2/3 times a day for energy and…
Happy Mother’s day to all our ancestral Grandmothers. We are all interconnected as Mothers. We were an embryo in our mother when she was a foetus in our Grandmother. Our Grandmother breathed for us and held the space for us to be conceived. We follow the caravan of our ancestors👨👨👧👧; their wisdom, their struggles, their…