Writing by our Principal, Jessica
Musing Yoga Therapy Yinspire News Reading
Musing
- Clarifying Yin Yoga 18th April 2019
- Chakra Meditation 10th March 2018
- Don’t Get Stressed About It! Stress And How Yoga Can Help 3rd October 2017
- Metta 9th June 2017
- Awareness of Non Awareness 19th April 2017
- Anatomy of an Ex Friendship 11th April 2017
- New Year Thoughts – Setting a Sankalpa 1st January 2017
- Solstice thoughts 21st December 2016
- We are all Donald 9th November 2016
- Post Brexit: a word on tolerance 29th June 2016
- In Defence of Yin Yoga 6th May 2016
- Advent thoughts 23rd December 2015
- Yoga and IBS 20th October 2015
- Is Yoga Exercise? I’m not clear? 21st September 2015
- Action and reaction – taking control of our future 27th August 2015
- Yoga and Christianity 13th August 2015
- Guru Purnima 31st July 2015
- Perfect 31st July 2015
- Weight loss, diet and stress 20th July 2015
- International Yoga Day 21st June 2015
- Words. Non Violence. Truth. 6th June 2015
- Namaste and Om 15th May 2015
- A long stretch 9th May 2015
- Body v Mind, Mind v Body 3rd May 2015
- Yoga and Backs – a Personal Reflection 27th April 2015
Yoga Therapy
- Yoga Therapy – Whats It All About 8th July 2019
- How Does Yoga Relieve Chronic Pain? 8th March 2019
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Yoga as Remedial Therapy 19th February 2018
Yinspire News
- Wednesday Morning Therapeutic Yoga – New for Autumn 2019 6th September 2019
- Late Summer Update from Yinspire 30th August 2019
- Yoga Therapy – Whats It All About 8th July 2019
- July schedule at Yinspire Yoga – Brading and Rowborough 2nd July 2019
- New Wednesday Evening Class with Peter, starts July 2019 21st June 2019
- Clarifying Yin Yoga 18th April 2019
- How Does Yoga Relieve Chronic Pain? 8th March 2019
- Saturday Morning Pure Yin and Workshop Changes 27th February 2019
- Class Subscriptions – New Benefits for Subscribers 26th February 2019
- Thinking About Yoga in 2019? Yin Yoga with Jessica 5th January 2019
- January 2019 News from Yinspire 31st December 2018
- Updated Privacy Policy 15th May 2018
- Coherent Breathing 28th March 2018
- Pure Sivananda with Della 28th February 2018
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Yoga as Remedial Therapy 19th February 2018
- Monday Morning Meditation with Carol 13th February 2018
- Mats, props and books – updated stock 5th December 2017
- Coherent Breathing 11th September 2017
- New Equipment Arrivals at Yinspire 25th January 2017
- Parking at Yinspire 1 29th June 2016
- Bolsters 14th March 2016
- Buy Yoga Equipment at Yinspire 10th January 2016
- Back to School – Family learning at Ryde Academy 16th October 2015
- Talk about Yoga. Dear reader, I just did. 14th October 2015
- Namaste and Om 15th May 2015
Reading
I devour books on yoga – here are some of the books I’ve read, and reviewed, recently:
- Book: The Yoga Tradition – Georg Feuerstein (Third Edition, 2008) 13th September 2019
- Book: How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of The Brain – Lisa Feldman Barrett (2017) 3rd September 2019
- Book: The Big Fat Surprise – Nina Teicholz 9th August 2019
- Book: Kundalini Rising – Various Authors 26th July 2019
- Book: Stalking Wild Psoas: Embedding your Core Intelligence – Liz Kotch 12th July 2019
- Book: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress – Gabor Maté 28th June 2019
- Book: Your Spine Your Yoga – Bernie Clark 13th June 2019
- Book: Too Many Pills – James Le Fanu 4th June 2019
- Book: Keep your Joints Young – Sarah Key 26th April 2019
- Book: Younger for Longer – Dr Duncan Carmichael 12th April 2019
- Book: Stalking God – Anjali Kumar 29th March 2019
- Book: A Beginners Guide To Loosing Your Mind – Emily Reynolds 15th March 2019
- Book: Happiness – Your Route Map to Inner Joy – Cope, Whittaker and Bason-Wood 1st March 2019
- Book: A Statin Nation – Dr Malcolm Kendrick 21st February 2019
- Book: Yoga Therapy for Arthritis – Dr Steffany Moonaz & Erin Byron 15th February 2019
- Book: Lost and Found – Jules Montague 1st February 2019
- Book: 10% Human – Alanna Collen 18th January 2019
- Book: The Breathing Book – Donna Farhi 11th January 2019
- Book: All That Remains – a Life in Death – Sue Black 4th January 2019
- Book: You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay 21st December 2018
- Book: Lies My Doctor Told Me, Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health – Ken Berry 14th December 2018
- Book: The Great Cholesterol Con: Dr Malcolm Kendrick 7th December 2018
- Book: The Healing Power of the Breath – Richard Brown & Patricia Gerbarg 30th November 2018
- Book: Brainstorm – Detective Stories from the World of Neurology – Suzanne O’Sullivan 23rd November 2018
- Book: The Disordered Mind – What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves- Eric R Kandel 16th November 2018
- Book: Why We Sleep – The New Science of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker 9th November 2018
- Book: Doctoring Data – Dr Malcolm Kendrick 2nd November 2018
- Book: Attached – Amir Levine and Rachel Heller 26th October 2018
- Book: Sod 70 – The Guide To Living Well – Muir Gray 19th October 2018
- Book: Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong – Matt Brown 12th October 2018
- Book: The Distracted Mind – Adam Gazzaley and Larry D Rosen 5th October 2018
- Book: Chair Yoga – Kristin McGee 28th September 2018
- Book: How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy – Paul Chek 21st September 2018
- Book: Wellmania – Misadventures in the Search for Wellness – Brigid Delaney 14th September 2018
- Book: Learning To Breath – Rachael Newham 7th September 2018
- Book: Life Long Yoga – Sage Rountree and Alexandra Desiato 31st August 2018
- Book: The Brains Way of Healing – Norman Doidge 29th August 2018
- Book: Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery – Cathryn Jakobson Ramin 24th August 2018
- Book: The Brain That Changes Itself – Norman Doige 21st August 2018
- Book: Restorative Yoga Therapy – Leeann Carey 17th August 2018
- Book: The Wisdom of Yoga – Stephen Cope 10th August 2018
- Book: In Shock – Dr Rana Awdish 3rd August 2018
- Book: Help for the Helper – Babette Rothschild 27th July 2018
- Book: Anatomy of Breathing – Blandine Calais-Germain 21st July 2018
- Book: Beat Your Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Seven Simple Steps – Paul Jenner 14th July 2018
- Book: Charge and the Energy Body – Anodea Judith 7th July 2018
- Book: Complications – Atul Gawande 30th June 2018
- Book: The Mindful Way Through Depression – Williams, Teasdale, Segal and Kabat-Zinn 23rd June 2018
- Book: Descartes Error – Antonio Damasio 15th June 2018
- Book: Treat Your Own Back – Robin McKenzie 28th May 2018
- Book: The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer – Siddhartha Mukherjee 22nd May 2018
- Book: The Subtle Body – Cyndi Dale 15th May 2018
- Book: Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food – Rachel Herz 8th May 2018
- Book: The Chakra Project – Georgia Coleridge 30th April 2018
- Book: Wheels of Life – Anodea Judith 23rd April 2018
- Book: Do No Harm – Henry Marsh 14th April 2018
- Book: Yoga For Healthy Ageing – Baxter Bell & Nina Zolotow 9th April 2018
- Book: Your Brain on Yoga – Sat Bihr Singh Khalsa 28th March 2018
- Book: The Mind Manual – Andy Gibson 21st March 2018
- Book: Fascia in Sport and Movement – Robert Schleip 14th March 2018
- Book: Boundaries – Jennie Miller & Victoria Lambert 7th March 2018
- Book: Stretching With Ease for a Pain Free Back – Linda Minarik 28th February 2018
- Book: Pure White and Deadly – John Yudkin 20th February 2018
- Book: Gulp – Mary Roach 13th February 2018
- Book: Gut – Giulia Enders 6th February 2018
- Book: Science of Flexibility – Michael Alter 30th January 2018
- Book – Stress Proof – Mithu Storoni 16th January 2018
- Book: The Evolution of Biomechanics – Stephen Braybrook 9th January 2018
- Book: Heart: The Inside Story of our Body’s Most Important Organ – Johannes Hinrich von Borstel 19th December 2017
- Book: The Bhagavad Gita (translation Eknath Easwaran) 12th December 2017
- Book: Into the Magic Shop – James Doty 5th December 2017
- Book: Muscles and Meridians – The Manipulation of Shape – Phillip Beach 28th November 2017
- Book: The New Science of Breath – Stephen Elliott 23rd November 2017
- Book: Core of the Yoga Sutras – BKS Iyengar 14th November 2017
- Book: Gender Medicine – Marek Glezerman 10th November 2017
- Book: The Mind Gut Connection – Emeran Mayer 7th November 2017
- Book: The Ecology of the Soul – Aidan Walker 3rd November 2017
- Book: Acu Yoga – Michael Reed Gach 31st October 2017
- Book: And Breath – Rebecca Dennis 24th October 2017
- Book: The Healing Power of the Breath – Brown & Gerbarg 17th October 2017
- Book: Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body – Jo Marchant 10th October 2017
- Book: Big Fit Girl – Louise Green 26th September 2017
- Book: A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness – Susan Greenfield 19th September 2017
- Book: Molecules of Emotion – Candace Pert 12th September 2017
- Book: The Plastic Mind – Sharon Begley 5th September 2017
- Book: Sleep Better – The Science and The Myths – Graham Law and Shane Pascoe 29th August 2017
- Book: When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi (Dcd) 21st August 2017
- Book: Freedom in Exile – Autobiography of the Dalai Lama 14th August 2017
- Book: the Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down – Haemin Sunim 7th August 2017
- Book: Waking Up – Searching for Spirituality Without Religion – Sam Harris 12th July 2017
- Book: The Brain – Michael O’Shea 5th July 2017
- Book: The Sleep Revolution – Arianna Huffington 28th June 2017
- Book: Yoga FAQ – Richard Rosen 14th June 2017
- Book: The Telomere Effect – Blackburn & Epel 5th June 2017
- Book: The Modern Yoga Bible – Christina Brown 16th May 2017
- Book: The Stress Test – Ian Robertson 11th April 2017
- Book: 10% Happier – Dan Harris 4th April 2017
- Book: Buddhism – A Concise Introduction – Huston Smith and Philip Novak 29th March 2017
- Book: The Relaxation Response – Herbert Benson 22nd March 2017
- Book: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers – Robert M. Sapolsky 13th March 2017
- Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk 6th March 2017
- Book: Chinese Medicine – The Web That Has No Weaver – Ted Kaptchuk 13th February 2017
- Book: Adrenal Fatigue – James Wilson 30th January 2017
- Book: Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement – Joanne Avison 5th January 2017
- Book: The Magical year – Danu Forest 20th December 2016
- Book: Insight Yoga – Sarah Powers 19th December 2016
- Book: After Buddhism – Stephen Batchelor 3rd December 2016
- Book: The Universe in Your Hand – Christophe Galfard 20th November 2016
- Book: Mindful Moments – Louise Adams 4th November 2016
- Book: Yoga Reminder – A G Monaghan 16th October 2016
- Book: An Empath: The Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Energy, Emotions & Relationships – Alex Myles 8th October 2016
- Book: Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit – Ana Forrest 18th September 2016
- Book: Back to Life – How to Unlock your Pathway to Recover when Back Pain Persists – David Rogers & Grahame Brown 8th September 2016
- Book: Yoga for a Happy Back: A Teacher’s Guide to Spinal Health through Yoga Therapy – Rachel Krentzman 1st September 2016
- Book: Yoga of the Subtle Body – Tias Little 16th August 2016
- Book: Turning the Mind into an Ally – Sakyong Mipham 9th August 2016
- Book: Holistic Anatomy – Pip Waller 18th July 2016
- Book: The Breath – Vessantara 20th June 2016
- Book: Running with the Mind of Meditation – Sakyong Mipham 31st May 2016
- Book: Too Simple for Words, Reflections on Non Duality – Graham Stew 29th May 2016
- Book: Your Body, Your Yoga: Bernie Clark 28th May 2016
- Book: Reasons to Stay Alive – Matt Haig 27th May 2016
- Book: Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled – Ruby Wax 26th May 2016
- Book: It’s all all Your Head, True Stories of Imaginary Illness – Suzanne O’Sullivan 21st May 2016
- Book: Yin Yoga – Ulrica Norberg 31st March 2016
- Book: Mind Change – Susan Greenfield 19th March 2016
- Book: Yin Yoga – Olivia Summers 4th March 2016
- Book: Adventures in Being Human – Gavin Francis 28th February 2016
- Book: Chakra Yoga – Anodea Judith 15th February 2016
- Book: The Diet Myth:The Real Science Behind What We Eat – Tim Spector 5th February 2016
- Book: Being Mortal – Atul Gawande 21st January 2016
- Book: God is Not a Christian – Desmond Tutu 5th January 2016
- Book: Behavioural Economics Saved My Dog – Dan Ariely 21st December 2015
- Books: Light on Yoga and Light on Pranayama – BKS Iyengar 18th December 2015
- Book: Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East – Charles Russell 14th December 2015
- Books: Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You are There You Go – Jon Kabat-Zinn 19th November 2015
- Book: The Poetry of Kabir 30th October 2015
- Book: How to do Restorative Yoga – Michael Hetherington 21st October 2015
- Book: Energy Medicine – The Scientific Basis – James Oschman 8th October 2015
- Book: Yoga For Emotional Balance – Bo Forbes 1st October 2015
- Book: Yoga Girl – Rachel Brathen 17th September 2015
- Book: Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice – Deborah Adele 10th September 2015
- Book: The Spark in the Machine – Daniel Keown 3rd September 2015
- Book: Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda 23rd August 2015
- Book: Theories of the Chakras: Bridge to Higher Consciousness – Hiroshi Motoyama 29th July 2015
- Book: Serenity Yin yoga – Magdalena Macweld 28th July 2015
- Book: The Reluctant Yogi – Carla McKay 26th July 2015
- Book: Intelligent Yoga – Peter Blackaby 31st May 2015
