It’s National Stress Awareness Day on the first Wednesday in November. Now, I know we’re all very much aware of stress – but there is less awareness about what the wider impacts of stress can be, and what we can do to support ourselves and others to deal with stress in healthy ways.
Author Archives: PeachYoga
Mother-daughter bonding with yoga
There are lots of ways to invest in relationships. Here are a few of the things I love about my annual yoga retreats with my mum.
Be bold. Start something.
Is there something your body is telling you to be bold about? Take some time to sit quietly with yourself and see what whispers emerge.
Ceremony and transition: “Honour the space between no longer and not yet”
Transitions can be hard: those times where beginnings and endings exist simultaneously. Could ceremony be a helpful way for you to navigate transitions?
Add self-care rituals into your life in 5 simple steps
I use a variety of self-care rituals to help me feel happy and well. If you fancy doing the same, here are 5 things to think about.
A lesson on the self-indulgence of self-doubt
I took a good lesson about self-doubt away with me from our most recent yoga teacher training weekend. Admittedly it wasn’t a new lesson, but sometimes we need to learn the same thing many times…
Crashing back down the learning curve and into the world
I thought I’d reached that stage in the yoga teacher training learning curve where it would be upwards from now on. How foolish of me!
Yoga for turbulent times
There’s a myth that yoga is all about being ‘Zen’, allowing everything to wash over you as you remain unperturbed by the surrounding chaos. But it’s much harder than that. Yoga is about learning to be with the painful feelings, and then to respond rather than react. As Brexit unfolds this is harder than ever.
Gluteus medius and me
Our relationship began in a bewildering, emotion-filled blur. Or at least it felt like that was the beginning. As it turns out, my gluteus medius had been there all along, at the back of my pelvis, waiting for me to notice it, quietly supporting me as best it could as I gallivanted around believing I could do it all by myself.
Gunas and Doshas: How to balance your energies with self-compassion
Do you ever feel anxious and agitated but don’t know where to start to find calm? Or tired and depressed to the point of not feeling able to move? Here’s how exploring Doshas and Gunas helps me find balance with self-compassion.
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