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Ashtanga Yoga beats colds!

A deliberately sensational title to this post, agreed 😉 At the beginning of this week I was coughing and spluttering through practice. I’d decided to get back into regular 5 days a week practice. So Monday was quite a slog to get through. Sometimes it can go either way with colds but I wasn’t giving […]

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Spiderman and Barbie do Ashtanga

Just found this awesome website: www.yogabeans.com Spiderman and Barbie doing Parsvottanasana is very funny and I actually laughed out loud at Silversurfer and Storm Shadow doing Virabhadrasana I and II http://www.yogabeans.com/2006/08/parsvottanasana.html Despite the humour the text is actually rather well written – charming and insightful!

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work, life, practice – All Yoga

This week has been a real struggle to find the time to get onto the mat. My Mum has been visiting this week which is lovely but it does take up a lot of my energy. I’ve taken time off work to hang out with her and the I thought I’d have had plenty of […]

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Being a beginner

This last week has been all about new beginnings for me. I celebrated another birthday which was nice, taking the day off and generally chilled with my partner. Hannah bought me an awesome present – A book called “The Yoga of the Yogi” by Kausthub Desikachar, Krishnamacharya’s Grandson. It’s a lovely book which I bought […]

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Kundalini rising in Bristol

A friend of mine has a flat in Bath and kindly let us stay while he’s away in Norway. Bath is a rather lovely city and I have a keen interest in the rich Roman history in England.  So we drove to Bristol each morning to take part in the workshop which was hosted by […]

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