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Online Weekly Holistic Yoga Classes

24.3.2020
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Exercise, Health, Weekly Yoga Classes

Welcome to Your Online Holistic Yoga Class This week, the theme is gentle support of our kidney energy. The kidneys are the situated behind the lower ribs, at the back on either side of the spine. Sitting on top of each kidney, like a beret, is an adrenal gland. By resting back into our kidney area, and releasing tension, we can both calm and energise ourselves. This is because when the kidney-adrenals are over taxed, we feel “tired and wired.” In traditional Chinese medicine, the kidneys rule the bones. The bone marrow is where white blood cells are made. So by nourishing our kidneys we are supporting our natural immunity. The rapid pace of change in our lives due to the pandemic has been a great challenge...

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Online Weekly Gentle Yoga and Somatics Classes

24.3.2020
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Exercise, Health, Weekly Yoga Classes

Welcome to your Online Weekly Gentle Yoga and Somatics ClassThis week, the theme is gentle support of our kidney energy. The kidneys are the situated behind the lower ribs, at the back on either side of the spine. Sitting on top of each kidney, like a beret, is an adrenal gland. By resting back into our kidney area, and releasing tension, we can both calm and energise ourselves. This is because when the kidney-adrenals are over taxed, we feel "tired and wired." The kidneys rule the bones, in particular the bone marrow. The bone marrow is where the white blood cells are made. So by nourishing our kidneys we are supporting our natural immunity.The rapid pace of change in our lives due to the pandemic...

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Coronavirus – Holistic Yoga Studio Guidelines

10.3.2020
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Health, Lifestyle, Yoga in Everyday Life

Holistic Yoga Online All classes are now online with a choice of Audio Classes which you can listen to without a screen. All you need to do is read the class agreement, find a nice place in your home to practice and click play. There is a photo practice guide for each class.  Gentle Yoga and Somatics Audio Class – Listen Anytime – Click Here to Go to the Class NowGeneral Holistic Yoga Audio Class – Listen Anytime – Click Here to Go to Class Now These classes are offered by donation, with a selection of amounts to pay. Please pay according to your ability so that I may continue to offer these classes freely to all.All in-person classes are cancelled. I will be continuing to monitor the...

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Yoga, Coronavirus and Immune System Health

08.3.2020
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Health, Lifestyle, Yoga in Everyday Life

A Yogic Approach to Coronavirus: Covid-19It’s now clear that the Coronavirus is something we all need to take seriously. There seem to be currently two approaches, the  relaxed "don't worry about it, it will all blow over soon" or the manic bulk buying of hand sanitiser, toilet roll and paracetamol. The healthy spot is somewhere in the middle of these two. It’s up to each one of us to make some little changes in our daily habits in order to inhibit the spread of the virus. This article is about the positive steps we can take to protect the people who are most vulnerable to the virus and lessen the burden on our NHS.Action in Service of Others – Karma YogaThe actions that we take...

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Gentle Yoga with Hanna Somatics

26.2.2020
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Health, Lifestyle, Yoga in Everyday Life

What is Hanna Somatics? Hanna Somatics is a movement therapy invented by Thomas Hanna. Hanna was a student of Moshe Feldenkrais (another movement specialist); who in turn was a student of F.M. Alexander (who devised the Alexander Technique). Hanna Somatics seems at first to be similar to gentle yoga. However the principles are very different, but complementary. Hanna Somatics is concerned with improving and maintaining health in the body. It helps us to adapt to what life brings, whether that is chronic health conditions, injuries, stiffness and old age. Funnily enough, these are many of the reasons why people come to yoga class. Finding Centre I’ve always wondered why our bodies don’t revert back to alignment around the central axis. This axis runs though the centre of our skull, ribcage...

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Natural Winter Cough and Cold Remedies

26.10.2019
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Health

It's that time of year, when the temperature drops, the light is fading and we seem to be more susceptible to catching colds, coughs and sore throats. So this come winter why not arm yourself with Nature's best cold and cough defenders? You don't have to spend a packet to make sure you have some seriously effective and very natural remedies, right where you need them - in your kitchen, ready for when those bugs start to try to take over your throat, your nose, let's face it...

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Gentle Yoga – An Ideal Solution for Lower Back Pain

04.1.2019
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Fitness, Health, Yoga in Everyday Life

Do You Have Chronic Back Pain?Chances are, you have suffered from a spot of back pain at some point in your life. In most people, it will heal of it’s own accord. Once the body gets moving again, the muscles relax, release and recover. However, in a growing proportion of the population, back pain can hang around or re-occur, so that the condition becomes chronic.Release Yourself From the Vicious CircleChronic lower back pain creates a vicious circle in which movement is limited due to pain and restriction. When we (unconsciously or consciously) prevent an area of the body from moving we lessen the blood flow and lymphatic drainage to that place. As a consequence, the area becomes tight and stiff and this can contribute to...

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Yoga for Bendy People – Hypermobility and Yoga

27.10.2018
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Health, Yoga in Everyday Life, Yoga News

The Trouble with Bendy Joints“The trouble with you Julia is that you’re knock kneed, bow legged and flat footed.” Sixteen years ago, this was the blunt conclusion of Jeanette Thomson, a highly experienced osteopath. When I told a student osteopath friend, he said: "it's impossible to be both knock kneed and bow-legged." However, Jeanette was spot on. Hypermobile people can go too far in the range of motion of their joints. This means hypermobile knees can turn both in and out and even extend backwards further than is usual. In fact, I didn’t (as yet) have any pain in my knees. That's another story! Yet, my neck had seized up entirely, partly due to the stress of completing my university dissertation. Looseness in my joints and...

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Fascinating Fascia Part 2: Fascia as a Sensory Organ

16.6.2018
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Uncategorized, Yoga in Everyday Life

In part one of Fascinating Fascia we found out what fascia is. If you haven’t read this article, have a look here. In a nutshell, fascia is a body wide, three-dimensional interconnected web of sliding, fluid filled tissue. It cushions and connects each and every muscle, bone, organ, nerve and blood vessel. Every movement within the fascial web affects the web as a whole, due to its biotensegrity structure. Fascia As an Sensory Organ Scientists used to think that fascia was inert, just packing material. Yet we now know that fascia is highly enervated. New research is discovering that there are more sensory nerve endings in the fascia than there are in the eye or the skin. This recent revelation means that fascia may be viewed as...

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Yoga and Stress Reduction – The Basics

27.5.2018
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Yoga in Everyday Life

What is Stress?Stress is a tricky subject for a number of reasons. It is pretty broad term. When we talk about stress we could be talking about physical, mental, emotional or environmental stress. Some people can withstand a huge amount of stress and seem to thrive on it. Whereas for other people the smallest amount of stress is barely tolerable. We actually need to able to withstand stress, in order to become stronger. Stress isn't inherently bad, yet how our body-mind systems deal with it is critical. But how much is too much and how do we know?  Traumatic StressIf we can recover from stressful incidences well, rather than staying stuck in stress, then we will suffer few ill consequences. However, if we fail to recover from the...

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