Archive for Motherhood
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Theme of the Month- Prema
Prema is pure, unselfish, divine love. Love without conditions, love for the sake of love. It is the love we have for God, the universe, the divine. Prema is also the love I have for...
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Theme of the month March – MA!
March is the month where we start to think about Spring (and pray it arrives early), where flowers pop up even though the ground is still cold, the wind is blowing at 50mph and the...
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Terrible customer service from FatFace turns me into Mama Bear
This is not my normal yogi post, that’s for sure. This is a rant. And I probably wouldn’t be writing this rant had FatFace responded in a decent way to my complaint but they didn’t...
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How do you define yourself? The ramblings of a yogini and mother
Yoga teacher, mother, friend, sister, daughter…my current roles. the way I currently define myself. There’s been others in my time, student, manager, executive, wife, lover and others I don’t care to think about. I’ve been...
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The Grace of a Woman
Today I have three poems and quotes rattling around in my head. Today has been a day of sadness, fear and once again surrender. This is a little bit raw still…but it helps to write things...
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Krishna and the art of surrendering
Last night I was watching an online yoga video of one of my favourite teachers, Kelly Kamm in NYC, tell the story of Queen Draupadi and her surrender to faith, love, Krishna. Essentially the baddy...
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It’s raining, It’s pouring
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...
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For the love of yoga
Yesterday I led 12 sunny, sweaty students through 108 sun salutations. I love leading and practicing the 108. On the journey, you go through a range of emotions and thoughts: why am I doing this?,...
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Put down your suffering and come with us…
There are a zillion articles online about how women should support one another rather than knock one another down. There are another zillion focusing on how mothers should support one another and not judge another’s...
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Agony Aunt – Worried Wendy fears for her daughters health
Dear KCY,I’m a fairly anxious person and I’ve found yoga has helped me enormously to let go of that anxiety. But how do you let go of specific events that cause anxiety? Case in point….my...