There’s a study (sponsored by the American Council on Exercise and published in the Gundersen Medical Journal) that showed practicing yoga in a hot room “can raise internal temperatures and heart rates to levels […]
Bikram ‘not as safe as yogis believe’…
Curate your life – like your apartment
When we move into a new home we think carefully about how to arrange furniture, plants and pictures. We think about colours, textures, light settings and angles – is this a nice […]
Don’t listen to – anyone…
In the end, yoga is a very lonely pursuit. No one can really advise you on “how” to do yoga. However, when you start, the opposite seems to be true. There are […]
The grinding 21st century stress response
I’m grinding my teeth. I had no idea that I was doing it until my last check up at the dentist. She simply said: “Oh I can see your teeth are pretty […]
Bamboo on the yoga mat…?
This post will start with babies and bamboo (I know, bear with me) but will lead onto yoga, eventually. A very thoughtful friend offered a stack of bamboo tissues to us after our […]
‘Having it easy’ is not the purpose…
An email dropped into my inbox that made me reconsider a few things. It came from the Parmarth Niketan ashram in Rishikesh. Just a little while ago we were thinking and reading about resolutions. […]
Do you dare – slowing down?
Does anybody still remember when yoga was just plain weird, potentially dangerous and certainly a devilish Hindu practice? When you’d don your baggy cotton trousers and a shabby t-shirt in order to, […]
No, you won’t need undies…
Dear Kate, We’ve never met, but you seem to understand the issues that come with yoga practice and yoga pants. Or rather, those that arise when combining underwear and yoga pants (as […]
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