In yoga and meditation, we learn various techniques and tools to help calm the body and the mind, to re-balance, to find ease and to find 'a pause'.
These last few weeks have in many ways been 'a pause' for all of us. Whether our daily lives and activities have changed a little, a lot, or perhaps not at all. We have all been given an opportunity to stop and reflect. This in itself is a practice of yoga.
Read More"Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.” Ekhart Tolle
We all find ourselves waiting. Waiting for this phase in human history to be over, for the solution, for the answer. When we project ourselves forward into a future we cannot know, we are missing what is happening NOW.
So how do we get to the now?
Read MoreIt's now a couple of weeks since we sadly had to say goodbye to our beloved dog Duke.
We all resonate with losing a person we love. Losing a pet is a slightly different experience, for some it can be harder in some ways. I am not an expert in how to deal with grief of any kind, and I believe there can be grief in other situations not just in the death of a loved one. But I do want to share my experience of the early days after losing Duke and how my meditation practice has helped.
Read MorePlease consider yoga images with care. They don't always reflect what yoga is and can be. ANY BODY can do yoga. There is nothing to aspire to except being yourself, having fun and reaping the physical and mental health rewards yoga can bring.
Read MoreA phrase on the radio today rang out to me "You find joy most acutely in the smallest things."
How to find more joy and overcome your negativity bias…
Read MoreWhen we spend more time bring present, we become more attuned to the world around us, it becomes more 'high definition' as my meditation teacher says. Certainly this is true for the blossom in my garden when I take time to just look at it without distraction, being as present as I can.
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