Archive for Health

I’m not going to lie, in my pre-yoga teacher training days I had a bit of a love-hate relationship with pranayama. Don’t get me wrong, pranayama now has my heart, no ‘love-hate relationship’ anymore…it’s all...

The theme of the month this month at the virtual studio is…YOU DO YOU In other words, whatever feels right as you navigate this new world we all find ourselves in. Today I was speaking...

The theme of the month in March at the studio is Pranayama, we broadly all understand this as breath work or breathing practices but spare me a moment to dissect this word PranaYama. Prana is...

You probably wouldn’t know it unless you spoke to me for more than about, say, 5 minutes, but I suffer from a particular affliction. As far as I know this wasn’t something I carried with...

Where would we be without our hands? I still remember the night that, as a child, I awoke from a seemingly interminable and inescapable nightmare to find my mother at my bedside gently stroking my...

I’ve been thinking a bit this past month about mindfulness and staying in the present moment. Whenever I am a student in a yoga class and the teacher asks us to set an intention, more...

WHAT IS AYURVEDA? Ayurveda is a centuries-old system of health and wellbeing that was first developed in India – the birthplace of both Ayurveda and Yoga – which is still practiced and recognised today the...

Oh what a week….on Monday Cyclone Frank and I arrived at daycare to be told he had chicken pox and to head home. As we were rejected from the doors with waves of ‘see you...

Many years ago I was co-hosting a yoga retreat in the beautiful surrounds of the northern New South Wales hinterland with my business partner Jacqui. We ran these retreats four times a year and often...

Dear KCY Here’s an unusual question for your agony aunt blog – what does it mean that I have recurring dreams about pooing out of my mouth?? I mean really, WTF??? yours, scared to go...