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Karma yoga
Pain

5 lessons from my foot karma

Thinking we have life all stitched up, that we are heading in the right direction, becomes a salutary reminder, when life trips us up. To be honest, I know there are lessons in all life’s mishaps….

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Pain

From broken to beautiful, kintsugi

Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese craft that uses golden lacquer to restore broken ceramics. The essence of kintsugi is the focus on life’s hidden beauty. Most of all, the power of transforming…

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Pain

How to get up again, when you fall

We all fall, life gives us all knocks and bumps. Sometimes it feels like the world has just imploded on our doorstep, other times it is less intrusive. No one is immune! Someone else’s life may…

Therapeutic Yoga
Business

Summer reflections

Reflections at the end of a year can be both insightful and encouraging. How often have you truly stopped this year, paused in your scheduling, rather than moving onto the next and the next? Just…

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Yoga Therapy

20 ways to practise your yoga

There are countless ways to practise yoga, that don’t involve being stretchy/bendy or even getting on a mat! In fact, the mat is simply the practice ground for life off the mat. Yoga offers us…

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Calm

New York City with a Swami!

Yes, Swamis live in the heart of New York City. Thankfully there is some peaceful presence in the city that never sleeps. Behind the narrow building of Integral Yoga® Institute in Greenwich Village,…

Yoga and emotions
Emotions/Mind

How to heal your emotions

‘Your issues are in your tissues’. I like these words! I find them comforting. They were kindly spoken to me during my first yoga teacher training. My emotions were bubbling over and I was having a…