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This year I decided, despite an injury last year, to continue with snowboarding. Those of you who enjoy snowsports will know the sense of exhilaration that comes from being high in the mountains on a crystal clear day, and this was one element which lured me back. The other was something to do with fear. [...]

Transitional times, such as New Year, allow us to reflect on what we would like to change and we are encouraged, traditionally to resolve to change those things. However, change requires energy and often, we find ourselves at the turn of the year, the darkness of Winter,  feeling very low in the kind of energy [...]

I am sure there are times in the darkest days of winter when you feel like hibernating! It is a time of hibernation for many animals. Plants die back and trees drop their leaves. Our Ancestors were undoubtedly more in tune with nature’s cycles. Winter would have been a slower time, when energy and valuable [...]

I have just found myself being surprised by the date. November already? It’s a common theme and topic of conversation, how quickly the months seem to fly by. We are intrinsically linked to the flow of the seasons and still gauge the passing of time by seasonal milestones. The passing of time can also feel [...]

Writing this week about my work with people living with cancer, I found myself commenting most significantly on the breath. The breath is our connection between the body and the mind. When we are stressed, or anxious, the breath can become short or shallow, we can even find ourselves holding the breath just as we [...]

We have just returned from a week on a sailing boat in Cornwall. The plan was to help sail the boat up the West Coast and back to Scotland. However, with adverse weather conditions, we spent the week sheltering up-river.
Being on the sea is an energetic challenge for me. As a strongly air-orientated person, I [...]

August marks the seasonal peak of high summer. Yes, despite the rain- it is still summer! The 1st of August is the ancient Celtic feast day of Lughnasah or Lammas, the feast of the grain harvest. We are surrounded by the signs of ripening fruits and crops and abundant flowers marking the beginnings of the [...]

We had a lovely time in Spain recently, where it was exceptionally hot – over 40 degrees at times! In that climate things have a totally different pace. Shedding shoes and layers of clothing and practising yoga in natural heat was a joy. We attended the wedding of fellow yogi, Kenny, near Madrid (congratulations to him and [...]