The one question I get asked again and again: Is yoga or Pilates better? In 2004 I enrolled in an 8-week Introduction to Yoga & Pilates course: 4 weeks of Pilates, 4 weeks of yoga in a frigid church hall in West Kensington, London. As far as I was concerned, Pilates was a slow form…
If Instagram is anything to go by, yoga is about expensive yoga pants and acrobatic poses. The yoga lifestyle you see online is a little one-dimensional (#yogalove #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogaeverywhere #yogaaddict #yogafam) Do you detect a little cynicism? Yep! An ancient and healing practice, yoga is so much more than the physical postures we are…
I’ll be the first to put my hand up and say I struggle to stick to a daily meditation practice. Erratic would be the best way to describe it: a little mantra here, a guided chakra meditation there. Some days I’d meditate first thing in the morning. Other days, I’d be about to drift off to…
Blocks, bolsters, blankets. Yoga props, do you love ’em or hate ’em? Yoga props spark all kinds of reactions. There are people who NEVER use props and I’ve heard all kinds of reasons why: They take too much time to set up They cost too much I don’t know what to do with them They…
