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Samskaras on the mat and off the mat, what can this do for you? School holidays are a time to relax and unwind, as a primary school teacher I look at doing things that can serve me better, that I...

The importance of careful injury recovery Having been a competitive runner for a couple of years, any exercise had to make me sweat, make my heart beat faster and put me out of breath. If those boxes weren’t ticked I...

Read on to learn a little more about these 2 critical components in your yoga and Pilates practice. Quite simply when we breathe in yoga we inhale through the nose and exhale through the nose whilst in Pilates we inhale...

What does progress look like in Pilates and Yoga? Why is it different from person to person? Why on some days do we feel like we make progress and other days we feel like we go backwards? When I think...

The importance of careful injury recovery I am just about 3 months into the recovery from an anterior shoulder dislocation with the added misfortune of brachial nerve plexus damage, a complication as a result of my shoulder being dislocated. All...

Why do Yoga and Pilates? Which one is better? If I want to burn fat perhaps Pilates is better? But I need to release stress so maybe yoga is the way to go? Are such thoughts preventing you from making...

In those moments when life throws a few too many curve balls, how do we react? It’s easy to push emotions away to deal with another day, to avoid our problems by pretending they’re not there or to pass them...

So you’ve heard about Yoga and it’s many benefits but you are still not entirely convinced? Perhaps the thoughts 'I’m not flexible enough' or 'a cardio workout or a weight based session is more appealing than trying to get into...

Meditation for me must be one of the hardest yet most rewarding parts of my yoga practice. Clearing the mind so you can completely reconnect with yourself is crucial for a healthy mind and this mindset creates the platform for...

How often can we be in a brilliant routine of exercise and we look out of our rose-tinted glasses and wonder how it were ever possible to not be in this space. We ask ourselves, how can there be people...