What is it that you are running from, or towards? I have found myself speeding through things recently. I have been thinking about the practical steps I can take to make Autumn 2020 feel more spacious rather than constrained.
Yoga, Teenagers and Covid-19
Most teens reported an increase in stress and anxiety during lockdown, finding the experience bewildering. This anxiety has been compounded with confusion over exam results and a bumpy reopening of schools. Yoga offers young people a toolkit to navigate challenging emotions and find steadiness during the rockiest of times. Find out how, or book for my livestream Saturday morning teen and tween classes through MA&Y
Live Classes with MFML
I am offering live family yoga classes (open to those aged 8+) with Movement for Modern Life during the current period of school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic . Classes will be 45 - 60 minutes and will take place on zoom. Classes will offer dynamic yoga in simple, playful sequences and include breathing and meditation. You can read more and register through MFML.
Write Moves
25,600,000 million women are dissatisfied with their bodies. That’s a lot of women. It shouldn’t be this way. I believe that every woman should feel good about her body, and I am delighted to be teaming up with movement artist and yoga teacher Vanio Papadelli to run Write Moves, a six-week dance, movement and writing course taking place at Poplar Union supported by The Mayor of London’s Culture Seeds.
What do you think a yoga teacher should look like?
Today is the start of Black History Month and I have decided to share a blog that I wrote a few weeks ago for Yoga on the Lane about my experiences of telling people that I taught yoga. This is one of several hats I wear; yet somehow, teaching yoga seemed to be the one thing people were compelled to comment on, because in their view I didn’t look like yoga teacher.
Reimagine our Streets: Car Free Day
Yoga on the Lane, is taking to the streets for London’s Car Free Day on Sunday 22 September, for a day-long pop-up Yoga on the Road. I’ll be there supporting classes on Stoke Newington Church Street and Clissold Park. Yoga is for everybody and for every body. Thirteen FREE classes are taking place across five locations.
Five ways to awaken your spirit
What makes you feel truly alive? How do you still the chattering of your mind enough to listen to your intuition? Do you have the courage to follow your curiosity? Awakening your spirit helps you to live more fully by softening around your experience and meeting your mind and feelings with kindness.
Five reasons every teen should take up yoga
Cultivating a nourished heart
Xiu Yang is a dance with the extraordinary captured in a book that belies its simplicity. Mimi Kuo-Deemer introduces the ancient Chinese concept of self-cultivation in a way that is beautiful and readily accessible. Infused with practical suggestions, this book will support you in making the small changes which result in profound shifts.
The fire of practice
I believe understanding yoga as a practice cuts to the heart of what yoga is. By exploring what a practice might consists of, I have learnt to focus my mind and to disconnect in order to feel more connected. I’m not the only one, I explore how ancient yogis and present ones use their practice as a way of exploring their reality.
Stepping out of your comfort zone
Why is trying something new so scary and yet so exhilarating? And how does stepping into the unknown help us to learn more? I wrote a blog for Movement for Modern Life exploring how trying something new in my yoga practice helps me to connect with my beginner’s mind.
Yoga and Accountability
How do you find motivation to get on your yoga mat, when there are so many distractions? How do you keep yoga feeling fresh and relevant? I wrote a blog for Movement for Modern Life on Yoga and Accountability in which I share my top five ways of staying motivated in my yoga practice.
Feel Good Yoga
What is it that makes us feel so good after yoga? How does it support not only our physical wellbeing but also our mental health. I co-wrote a blog post with the founder of Movement for Modern Life, Kat Farrants which explores the different ways in which yoga makes us feel good and has a positive impact on our mental health.