WHYOGA BLOG

'It's an empowering, enlivening journey walking the Green Path'. That is, as forager and herbalist Robert Harford tell us, 'to spend more and more time outside meeting plants, sitting with them to observe their life cycle through the various seasons and getting out of your head, off your screen, off the touchline of life and into the WILD!' The easiest way to do this, he says, is to Pick, Crush & Sniff a plant every day because doing so wakes up our senses and is known as Org

We've a few lovely twists in the class at the moment that I hope you've noticed leave you feeling both energised and relaxed in your body and mind. This is because twisting has an enormous physiological and psychological impact. By creating inter-vertebral space and decompression in the spine, twists support spinal nerve health and boost the nervous system to function effectively. When space between the vertebrae is limited we feel heavy and lacking in energy; prana (life for

Our lives do not make their beginning from the same starting blocks. We are all born into different circumstances. Be a sentimentally and intelligently strong person and never feel bad about where you've come from but celebrate the strides forwards that you have made. Keep looking at the day today within the broad perspective because this is a culmination of all your efforts. The past can stay in the past, your focus should be on taking one day at a time minding your thoughts

Taking a step back and slowing down when you’ve been pushing yourself too hard helps you to manage stress. Having motivation is a good thing but can also be too much of a good thing when it starts to affect your health and well-being. When you are feeling overwhelmed, lie on your mat and say 'I give up' with a cheeky smile on your face. This doesn't mean giving up forever, it means giving up and letting go at that moment. If you want to view yourself as an emotionally strong

Emotionally strong people know that life and love offers challenges. So they neither reflect on the negative circumstances nor worry about how others may have treated them. On the contrary, they take complete accountability for their role in life and work on changing things that can be changed while bearing in mind that life is not always fair. Yoga helps us to cultivate the inner strength to be emotionally strong. We feel it on the mat. The skill is to harness that feeling d