Hello,

Finally, I’ve redesigned the Ashtanga Brighton home page! The design is much more focused around the most popular sections of the website. I determined these from the site stats over the past year (if you’re interested, check out my slightly geeky post on the topic)

Hopefully the redesign will improve sign-up to the popular monthly email newsletter, which wasn’t very clear.

You can also follow Ashtanga Brighton on Twitter and the new design grabs the lastest 5 tweets off twitter and displays them on page. I tweet about the ups and downs of daily practice and any news of upcoming workshops or Ashtanga news.

One of the challenges of the design was to make better use of the screen real estate available with monitors with higher resolutions and also not have to redesign the entire site. So I kept the main image of Ganesh, the Ashtanga Brighton heading font and the grey patterned background.

Hope you like the design and any comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Like practice the website is never complete, except in this moment of course, which is just perfect!

Namaste

G

I now have a brand spanking new website to advertise my copywriting, copyediting and proofreading services, which you can view here: www.mosscopywriting.co.uk.

If you hear of anyone needing any copywriting or editing services, be it for websites, blogs, brochures, posters, magazines, books, or any other kind of marketing material, do send them my way.

You can follow me on Twitter, Linked In and Xing – see the website for details. I also write a personal blog as the Seaside Scribbler.

The site was designed and built (of course) by Guy at zero G media and is hosted by 100% wind powered energy.

Namaste

Hannah x

A big welcome back to Sarah, who is looking far too tanned, rested and healthy quite the opposite to how I am feeling.

To have someone teaching every  day who knows your practice so intimately is a real privelige and  appreciated.  it is particularly interesting how teachers can differ in their approach but it us up to the student to decide what works for them whilst keeping to the tradition of the practice and using the knowledge and guidance inparted wisely.

Only two days back and already Sarah, has given me a great shoulder opener and is keen to share her experiences from her recent visit with Rolf.

After 8 years of practice I am having a difficult time with the changes that appear to be happening in my practice but with patience and Sarah’s guidance i am sure I will soon work through this period and come out the other end stronger in so many ways.

Have a great 2010 and I look forward to another year practicing with such a dedicated group of yogis.

A WARM THANK YOU AND A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO ALL THE POEPLE WHO VOLUNTEERED TO BE MY CASE STUDIES IN 2009. I HAVE RECIEVED MY VTCT LEVEL 3 QUALIFICATION IN HOLISTIC THERAPY AND I AM ONCE AGAIN LOOKING FOR HEALTH CONCIOUS PEOPLE TO VOLUNTEER FOR MY FURTHER CASE STUDY REASEARCH IN REFLEXOLOGY, AROMATHERAPY AND HOLISTIC MASSAGE TO PROVIDE EVEIDENCE OF THE EFFECTIVENES OF COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE IN MODERN DAY PRACTICE. YOU WILL NEED TO BE ABLE TO COMMIT TO BETWEEN 4-6 TREATMENTS OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS. FOR AFTER YOGA PRACTICE LET THE TREATMENT IMPROVE YOUR PERFORMANCE AND PREVENT INJURY. PLEASE CONTACT ME ON MY MOBILE FOR AN APPOINTMENT: Katie (vtct) 07932556915

Happy new year everyone

Hopefully the full moon new year festivities passed without incident! We had very chilled evening and the 2 of us went to the centre early on New Year’s day to practice. We’ve also just completed a massive 3 day overhaul of our living space.

The Christmas break

The second self practice at the centre was well attended with 9 ashtangis on the mat this morning. A big thank you to Louisa for allowing us to use the centre over the Christmas break and also to Laura for taking on the responsibility of opening up each day and dealing with the money. We’re all looking forward to Monday and seeing Sarah again after her trip away in Goa practicing with Rolf.

Ashtanga Brighton geeky web stats

I thought I’d start the year in a slightly geeky fashion by sharing some of the web stats for Ashtanga Brighton.

We had around 7500 visits to the site in 2009 which is an impressive increase of 35% from 2008. The average length of visit was 1 minute and 57 seconds and 54% of these visits were from people who had never visited the site before.

Increase in visits from the UK

4900 visits were from the UK which is a 46% increase from 2008. Visits from the states dropped off by 15% (was it something we said?)

2009 saw a big jump in visits from Spain – Ola! I’m guessing this is in response to Nick Evan’s visit. We also had quite a few visits from Canada and Germany.

Search and you shall find

How did people find the site? 68% found us through search engines which is a whopping increase of 27%. I was interested to note that traffic is up substantially from Yahoo. Direct traffic plummeted by nearly 40%.

The hottest pages on Ashtanga Brighton

So what are the most popular pages on the site? The homepage and the blog are still battling it out for number one. The homepage has more visits but for a shorter time. While the blog also has a high number of visits – nearly the same as the homepage but with an average visit lasting about 2 minutes! We wrote 57 blog posts which is averages out at 1 post a week.

Next up is the Ashtanga classes page which was redesigned with excellent results in the later part of the year to be more user friendly and is performing very well now with an average visit lasting over a minute and a half!

The yoga links page is also rather popular and it has the highest length of visit of nearly 3 minutes! That’s longest stay of any page on the site.

Anyway I’m sure you’re eyes are glazed over by now with all this geekiness. Here’s to 2010! May it bring you joy, love, light and peace.

x G