Articles To Inspire Your Yoga

Explore my library of musings on all things Yoga from philosophy to poetry, tuning into nature and the seasons as well as suggestions and offerings to nurture your practice of movement, breathing and rest.

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Nest for Rest
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Nest for Rest

Women gathered, rested and connected as I guided a sequence based on the nest painting I made and this beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. It was such a potent gathering and felt like we were laying down the foundations for a year of tuning into the seasons as a guiding...

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Create a Clearing
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Create a Clearing

I’ve been taking a pause from teaching Yoga and everything that goes with it like emails, facebook, marketing and planning classes and events. It’s been a much-needed time to turn towards myself and listen inwardly without having to hold space for others. So many...

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Family Yoga

Family Yoga

This boy and this dog and I have put together a family yoga class for you as we go into alert level 3 here in NZ. Alert level 3 will see some commercial changes and a few kids will go back to school but for many of us it’s the same routine of being at home with family...

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Evolving your Self-Practice from Within
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Evolving your Self-Practice from Within

This lockdown period is the perfect opportunity to bring your self-practice into focus. There have been a huge number of online classes available as many teachers from around the world offer free resources. I have particularly enjoyed Lisa Petersen's classes broadcast...

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The Yoga Journey as a Mountain Hike

The Yoga Journey as a Mountain Hike

Whenever I feel lost or stuck in my practice and there isn’t a peer or a teacher around to talk with I return back to the ancient handbook on yoga practice; Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. It is a non-dogmatic text and doesn’t say that we must practice particular poses and...

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Falling Awake
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Falling Awake

There's a moment when we wake up as well as when we fall asleep, before we are unconscious or fully alert that is a gateway into the state of pure conscious 'Being'. The trick is to be awake enough to notice it but asleep enough so that the personality hasn't come in...

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