Is Stretching Good for Us?
At first glance this may sound like a perverse question for a Yoga Teacher to ask, after all stretching is what we teach, right? Yes, No, Maybe. The answer is more nuanced. Stretching is thought to help loosen the body and give us more flexibility, and within Yoga...Our Health and Our Nervous System – And How Yoga Therapy Fits In
Day in day out, breath by breath, our Nervous System is ticking away behind the scenes – alongside our brain, representing a complexity far beyond even the most advanced computers mankind has invented. With complexity comes both the risk of things going wrong, and the...Yoga Ancient and Modern
Sometimes Yoga can be a little confusing to someone looking in from outside. If you ask Google “what is yoga” then, at the time of writing, you get 2,660,000,000 results – clearly a number of views! If you were to look at some of the first results that come up, a...Can I do Yoga by Myself or Do I Need to Come to a Class?
Never have there been more opportunities to start Yoga – there are a plethora of books, YouTube recordings and streamed classes available – at the time of writing “free yoga” on Google brings up 2,860 million results (yes, “about” 2,860,000,000). One positive side...The BioPsychoSocial Approach to Health
You may have heard the old joke about the plumber called to a Doctors Surgery for a blocked sink – “Put a paracetamol down it and call me again in the morning if it is still blocked” said the Plumber to the surprised Doctor. Behind this joke, however, is a truism – we...Socials and Feeds
