Check out this new offering from Rick Hanson - one of my all time favourite teachers - who I had the privilege to meet during a Mindfulness Conference at Samye Linge some years ago.

FOR OVER 30 YEARS, DR. RICK HANSON HAS TAUGHT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HOW TO:

• Feel less str...

The act of yawing and stretching - or pandiculation -

is important to our health and wellbeing - as good nutrition and regular exercise.

This main body of this article is taken from the work of one of my favourite teachers

Jennilee Toner;

teacher of Yoga, Anatomy & Injur...

Fascia and yoga

What is fascia and what does it have to do with yoga, our body and our overall mental and physical health?  Its a subject I have been interested for some years now and its getting to be more discussed and explored in the yoga world.  As we will be practi...

SUMMER:  Fire      

MERIDIAN:  Heart & Small Intestine

SENSE:  Speech & Touch

COLOUR:  Red

EMOTION:  Balancing = Inspiration, Joy.    Challenging = Anxiety, panic, overwhelm

It’s a joy to come into the summer months and have such a prolonged spell o...

Your Life is in the Balance

I mentioned in class recently, an article I read in the Times newspaper : Your Life is in the Balance, which I thought was interesting, enough to summarise it and highlight the important points here.

Of all the perils of ageing, falling is amo...

The long-awaited spring often arrives in fits & starts as winter seems to cling on – not only does winter cling on – or as we have recently experienced - but bursts of summer comes in too!  However, we always long for the arrival of spring as it heralds the time of reb...

The winter season brings us to the most introspective time of the year, literally when the energies are moving inwards to a more dormant state.  But this time is full of potential as the Water element it represents, is the source from where all energy and life emerges....

Several people have asked me to explain more about one of the energy medicine practices we are doing in class this month:  INTESTINE DETOX MASSAGE: which is a clearing of the large & small intestine.

As those in class already now, this detoxification technique doesn’t n...

According to the 5 Elements Principle - also thought of as the 5 phases of underlying energy patterns that flow through and leave their imprint on all the other energy systems – providing a lens for understanding and working with our health issues, behavioral patterns...

What a joy to have such a prolonged spell of warm sunny days – it’s like the summers we remember as children.  So much so, that it has taken me a few weeks to get this blog together as I really didn’t want to sit indoors at a computer and miss out on the sunny outdoor...