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2020 Yoga!

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2020 is very satisfying to write and see!

Don’t you think? It feels significant. A big year. A year for change?

Small steps my friends. We’re still deep in the winter. Not the time for sudden changes or restrictive resolutions, in my humble opinion :)  A time for quiet attention, tending our inner fires. Listening to our heart’s gentle song.  What might be there?  What might be possible, or needed.  No rush.  No need to jump.  Just listen.  Return to home-base.  It is all here, unfolding.

Classes at The Stables Yoga Centre, York!
I’m returning – finally! – to what feels like my own yoga-home, the Stables Yoga Centre in York on Monday evenings from 6th January! 

After almost 4 years, and two babies, I can’t wait to be back teaching Vinyasa Flow (6:15-7:30pm) and Beginners Yoga (6 week course, 7:45-9pm).  Contact The Stables for details and bookings.

The Stables is a beautiful space – if you haven’t been already I urge you to come along to any of their classes or workshops. A special place indeed.

Selby Yoga, FTW!
Our regular Saturday morning class resumes this weekend,
4th January, 9:30-10:30am at The Good Health Clinic.

I love our weekend yoga gang – thank you for making it such a fun, community practice, it’s such a highlight of my week to share it with you.  Jai!

The Sunday Sancuary popped up just before New Year – and sold out!  The overwhelming feedback was ‘ahhh – just what I needed!’

So here it is again, in the depths of the winter, when the sparkles of Christmas may already feel like a distant memory, let’s come together, tend our inner heart-fires, and choose rest, stillness, softness.  An opportunity for not-doing.

Sunday 26th January, 9:30-11am @ The Good Health Clinic, Selby
£10pp
Get in touch to book your place!

Morning Yoga Flow!

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It’s summer! I love to practice yoga outside – there’s something deliciously freeing about moving and breathing deeply out in the open air.  Our latest online Morning Yoga Flow class was filmed out in the back garden of my new house.  It’s such a beautiful space and it’s a pleasure to share it – and this practice – with you.

Lots of you asked for a short(ish), morning practice, so I hope this will do the trick! Twenty minutes to get you fired up, warmed up and ready to face the day.

It’s inspired by the summer and by you. It’s about expanding our hearts, meeting ourselves just as we are; it’s about celebrating the light, the day and this amazing body that moves and lives and breathes.  Whatever the weather (and the summer rain makes an appearance in this video!),  this class can be used to wake up the body and mind at any time of the day, or year.  Enjoy. Breathe it all in.

I’m pretty sure our newest yoga intern, Nina (#Ninalovesyoga) steals the show in this one; it’s worth a watch just to see her lording it up! :)

I’d love to hear what you think – let me know in the comments!

Keep practicing, keep flowing, my friends! Wishing you a summer of love and light xx

 

Yoga for Balance and Confidence!

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Balance.  Isn’t it what we’re all looking for?  Work-life balance.  A balanced diet.  Steady emotions. That sweet spot of ease and contentment.  We search for it, strive for it, but how many of us have it sorted and under control?

I talk about finding balance a lot, in and out of classes.  Other than ‘being bendy’, the wild balancing poses are what many percieve yoga to be.  On the mat, it’s easy to find ourselves feeling frustrated and unaccomplished by our wobbling leg, our steely gaze burning a hole in the wall ahead as we try to attain the perfect Tree Pose…Bakasana…Natarajasana…without face-planting the wall/floor/person on the mat next to us!

But – ahh, Yoga – you multifaceted beauty!  Balancing poses challange and strengthen us physically but reveal so much more to us about our inner states of being.  Our energy levels, the busy-ness of our mind, the distractions we listen to, our ego bubbling up from within berating us if we fall – and getting cocky when we fly! Yoga is all about balance, but the poses are just the beginning.

The poses – all of them – can be a meditation.  Places and shapes and challenges from which to observe our body and the movements of our mind: our fears, our hopes. The stillness in between breaths.

The challenge isn’t about balancing on one leg, but finding the balance between holding on and letting go.

Practice balancing – and falling – with me in this full, 40 minute online class!  You’ve got this! We’ll catch you.  Stay playful, my friends, it’s only yoga :)

Would love to hear how you get on! Leave me a comment and let me know!

Keep practicing and stay frosty :) xx