At the moment life feels pretty serious, what with all the fears and stresses of the worldwide pandemic, and the way the threat of illness is changing the minutiae of our lives in so many unexpected ways. COVID-19 is forcing us to realise how fragile the systems we base our lives on are, and howContinue reading “How yoga can help you have more fun in life”
Category Archives: Movement
Don’t just do something, sit there: Using pandemic lock-down to make peace with doing absolutely nothing
Before I flew to Costa Rica to study yoga, before COVID-19 frightened the world into lock-down and everyone suddenly became oddly possessive of toiletries, I visited my favourite book shop (Much Ado Books in Alfriston) and collected a little selection of second-hand titles to take home in return for a donation of peanut butter andContinue reading “Don’t just do something, sit there: Using pandemic lock-down to make peace with doing absolutely nothing”
Coronavirus may have curtailed my Costa Rica adventure, but I know my journey is just beginning
I’m sitting in an almost empty airport in San Jose after a zippy drive up the Pacific coast through the dawn with a really friendly taxi driver who treated me to The Best of Red Hot Chili Peppers for most of the way. My lack of Spanish meant we couldn’t talk much, but he smiledContinue reading “Coronavirus may have curtailed my Costa Rica adventure, but I know my journey is just beginning”
I just qualified as a yoga teacher… shame the world is ending
I’m writing this blog in a grassy clearing at the top of a jungle-covered mountain overlooking the bright blue Pacific ocean. I’ve just spent the last hour or so climbing some scarily steep, rubbly hills to get up here so I am disgustingly sweaty. I am also, slightly unnervingly, being circled by vultures. Still, I’mContinue reading “I just qualified as a yoga teacher… shame the world is ending”
Losing my identity in the jungle
I feel like I’ve been here in Costa Rica for months. In reality it’s only been 5.5 days, and only four of them have been at yoga school, which is where I am now, by a beautiful brook in the jungle inhabited by iguanas, geckos, dragonflies, monkeys, sloths and about a bazillion unseen noisy littleContinue reading “Losing my identity in the jungle”
Isn’t yoga just a fancy nap?
Call me a massive twat, but I like hard exercise. There’s something so enjoyably primal about a really difficult workout, like being in a fight. It’s kind of unpleasant and it hurts, but you’re being true to your inner animistic self and there’s something satisfying about that. I’ve learnt so much about myself through running.Continue reading “Isn’t yoga just a fancy nap?”
Some Very Clever People have found that yoga actually changes your brain (in a good way)
If you like yoga you probably know that it makes you feel good. But did you know that certain parts of your brain (responsible for memory, decision making and emotions) actually start to measurably grow within 10 weeks of starting a twice-weekly yoga practise? A few months ago a bunch of Very Clever People fromContinue reading “Some Very Clever People have found that yoga actually changes your brain (in a good way)”
It’s official: I’m going to Costa Rica to become a yoga teacher
If you’re an average earner who’s ever spent a very large sum of money in one go with a single, terrifyingly easy click of a computer mouse, you might be familiar with the sensation I’m experiencing right now of sort of wanting to be a little bit sick. Quite a large chunk of this SundayContinue reading “It’s official: I’m going to Costa Rica to become a yoga teacher”
We’re all really bad at breathing and it’s probably making us crazy
A few years ago I was walking home from work (along the beach at sunset, in summer – it was really beautiful) and I started feeling like I was going to die imminently. I felt strangely light – no mean feat for me at nearly six feet tall, and my body suddenly felt very…otherly. ItContinue reading “We’re all really bad at breathing and it’s probably making us crazy”
10 real fears I have about becoming a yoga teacher
I’m not a particularly anxious person but I’m also not as chilled out about life as I’d like to be. Doing anything new is a bit scary because there are so many unknowns, and that’s when your mind (the little bitch) starts to fill in the gaps with terrible possibilities. If you’re in the sameContinue reading “10 real fears I have about becoming a yoga teacher”
