2 results for tag: pranayama


Pregnant, and hot! When the ‘glow’ gets you down, do yoga!

Ugh, stifling heat... You're pregnant, so, in effect, have a mini oven in your belly... Usually you glow, and it shows, in your unique loveliness as a mama-to-be goddess. But right now you feel like a mini volcano! You can't do anything, go anywhere without feeling uncomfortable. So take a few minutes to honour it, and do nothing... go nowhere. Wherever you are! First, run your inner wrists under the cold tap for a while. It's very refreshing! Pop your feet in a bowl of cool water. A rolled up muslin cloth, or facecloth, soaked in cold water and squeezed out, placed on the back of your neck or over the forehead will also help to cool you down... Keep ...

Yoga… sleep???

Calmness, peacefulness, relaxation. "I could do with that!", people tell me, when I say I am a yoga teacher or talk about my practise. I also sometimes get the response "Oh but I am not flexible enough to do yoga.". Posture practise, which has commonly become known as 'yoga', is only one part of it.. In my humble opinion, yoga, (union of body and mind) is possibly more difficult to work towards through postures, to those of us who are flexible than it is to those of us who aren't, unless you are hung up on what the person next to you is doing. Sometimes, even the thought of yoga posture practise can seem so daunting to people that they just don't ...