Posts Tagged ‘yoga teacher’
Yoga and creativity: Seeing Red.
As part of the #inspiredNovember challenge that I’m currently running on Instagram, I decided to start with the root chakra. The root chakra is our sense of grounding and stability and is also associated with the colour red. As part of the challenge I invited everyone to observe the colour red as they went about…
Read MoreInstagram Yoga: hypermobility and the conversation we need to have.
Let me start by saying that I LOVE Instagram. No. wait. I find Instagram a potential dangerous minefield. No. wait. Can I phone a friend on this one? There are so many different thoughts that are running through my head abut the yoga culture we are creating on Instagram. I say ‘we’ because I am…
Read MoreTips for your first yoga retreat: 10 lessons I learnt
It’s been a BUSY last few months! In fact, a CRAZY busy last few months leading up to the launch of my Yoga Guides (more on that to come!). June was packed filled with finalising Yoga Guides, Arm Balance workshops, graphic work, wedding guestbooks and a retreat to Tuscany with Anna Marsh of Anna Marsh Nutrition. I’m…
Read MoreHow to stay inspired: Friday Inspire Day, morning unplugged.
This Friday edition of ‘how to stay inspired’ is something that has been super helpful for me personally in the last little while. Let me first begin by telling you how much I love my bed in the mornings. It’s not that I think that mornings are inherently terrible, it’s just that my bed in…
Read More5 things I’ve learnt from my first year as a yoga teacher
In March of this year it was one year since I graduated as a new yoga teacher. In that time, (and even before actually graduating) I taught free classes in the garden and then on graduating, I have hosted yoga and Prosecco brunches, I have set up beginners yoga courses, and have taught more advanced…
Read MoreYoga Journal #86: Marathons and Mindfulness
So, you may have read in the previous entry, I’ve signed myself up for a marathon at the end of March. I think it’s a good idea to always keep pushing and developing yourself in new ways and I don’t know why I decided to pick a half marathon, but I did. I think it will…
Read MoreYoga Journal #85: Marathons
I thought I would quickly scribble down some of my thoughts of late on this yoga teacher training graduate journey – I can’t believe it’s almost been an entire year since graduating as a yoga teacher! It’s been a crazy mad year. In fact, this time last year I was slap bang in the middle…
Read MoreYoga Journal #83: Habits & Routine
As part of January (and the mailer that went out this afternoon) I’ll be focusing on habits and routine this month and have an accountability chart to track my progress. Am working on maintaining 5 “resolutions” this month – 1. a morning routine (including journaling, yoga, meditation, reading) 2. an evening routine, (including ten mins…
Read MoreWhat does a yoga teacher eat: A food diary
What does a yoga teacher eat? I received a comment the other day via instagram asking about the kind of food I like to eat every day to keep me fuelled as a yoga teacher so I thought it would be fun to keep a little food diary for the next few days! I decided…
Read MoreWhy we feel emotional in yoga
(this post was originally published on DoYouYoga.com) The first time I felt “emotional” (read: tears) during a yoga class was sometime around Savasana and it went a little something like this: I had absolutely NO idea what was happening and couldn’t do anything to stop it. I’d love to say that I felt “enlightened”…
Read MoreBecome a yoga teacher: how to know you are ready
There comes a point in many people’s personal yoga practice where they have a feeling of “I WANT MORE OF THIS” and as such many look to starting a yoga teacher training course. In the last little while, I have been asked (emailed/facebooked/messaged/stopped in the street) about this many MANY times (4 times in the…
Read MoreChakra Jewelry and strange connections
I have been putting off this post for a while now. because – Some posts are just harder to put into words than others, ya know? I kind of wish I could rather sit here and talk to you all about my recent experience regarding this – so that you could FULLY understand the complete…
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