Yin Yoga offers a sanctuary for both body and mind in a world that never seems to slow down...

In yogic philosophy, svadhyaya is often translated as self-study. And that is really how I’m approaching this. Not as a hunt for the perfect glucose line, perfect sleep score or perfect body. I’m still eating cinnamon rolls. I’m still eating bread. I don't want an app to become more authoritative than my own experience.

Diagnosed with AuDHD just days ago, I am feeling both validation and grief for the versions of me who struggled without understanding why. My diagnosis is helping me make sense of friendships, overwhelm and the harsh labels I gave myself. Here, I share how yoga grounds me, how teaching anchors me in community, and why greater awareness matters. This is the beginning of learning to meet myself with kindness, and creating space for other women navigating life with autism and AD

In the closing verses of Chapter 2, Krishna offers two powerful images: the person who is awake while others sleep, and the ocean that remains steady as rivers flow into it. These teachings invite us to explore desire, inner fullness and the deeper peace that becomes possible when we are no longer carried away by every thought, feeling or longing.

The fields do not produce their harvest overnight. What appears in late summer began months earlier, with seeds placed into dark soil, followed by patient tending, uncertainty, sunlight, rain and time. Our yoga practice is much the same. We may come to yoga hoping to become more flexible, ease an aching back or find a little relief from stress. These are worthy reasons to step onto the mat. Yet the deeper fruits of yoga often appear more quietly. They ripen slowly, almost

After hosting my first weekend yoga retreat and spending a day volunteering at an exotic pet refuge, I found myself reflecting on work, rest and attention. From single-tasking and service to shared purpose and the surprisingly radical idea of a proper lunch hour, these experiences offered gentle lessons for life as a small business owner and home educator.

Thinking about booking a yoga retreat? Before you do anything rash, here are seven very good reasons to reconsider, including uninterrupted rest, delicious food you did not cook yourself and the unsettling possibility of coming home feeling better.

This evening brings a Blue Moon. Despite its evocative name, a Blue Moon isn't actually blue. It is simply an extra full moon on the calendar; a reminder that sometimes life doesn't fit neatly into our plans, schedules, or expectations. Perhaps that is why I find Blue Moons so compelling.

A glass here and there, something I instinctively felt good drinking long before I fully understood why. And over the past month, thanks to a lovely friend who gave me some grains, I’ve started making my own milk kefir at home, and honestly, it has felt like the final little piece of my peri-menopause puzzle. Since drinking homemade kefir daily, I’ve noticed surprisingly significant changes.

Most people notice it at some point. The spine doesn’t move quite as easily, the hips feel tighter, and there’s a general sense of stiffness that wasn’t there before, even if you’re still relatively active. It’s easy to put this down to ageing, but what’s really changing is the behaviour of the connective tissues in the body. And you do not have to 'put up with it'!

This month, I invite you into the element of air, and into something even more refined than that - space. This is the place of the heart. Not just the physical heart, but the energetic centre of Anahata. The space where breath moves freely. Where we meet ourselves and others with a little more gentleness. Where we begin to soften the edges we have been holding so tightly.

This week in sangha, we continue discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verses 45-46. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.

Fire is often associated with intensity, transformation, and power. But in yoga philosophy, fire also has another quality that is quieter, but just as important: clarity.

In yoga we often talk about breath in a very simple way. We inhale and we exhale. But within the deeper teachings of yoga philosophy, the movement of breath and energy in the body (prana) is understood to be much more nuanced. The yogic tradition describes five main movements of prana, known as the five vayus. The word vayu means wind or movement. These are not physical structures we can point to in the body, but rather patterns of energetic movement that describe how l

The fire element shapes this month of practice. Not as something dramatic or explosive, but as something quietly clarifying. Fire brings warmth, light, and the ability to see things more clearly.

If you have ever practised with me, you will know that rest is never an afterthought. I teach rest as a spiritual practice. It is woven through everything I teach. In the pauses between movements. In the way we arrive. In the way we end our practise. But there is something different about dedicating an entire evening to it.

Each January, there is a familiar energy in my yoga classes. New intentions are set. Mats are unrolled with enthusiasm. People arrive with a sense that this might be the year they finally establish a practice. But yoga was never meant to belong only to the beginning of the year.

This new moon in Aquarius carries the familiar invitation to begin again, but not by pushing forward. Aquarius does not ask for urgency. It asks for perspective.

February’s full moon arrives at a liminal moment. Winter is still very much here, and yet something has begun to shift. The days are lengthening, almost imperceptibly. The soil is no longer entirely dormant. Snowdrops push their way through cold ground, not because conditions are perfect, but because the time has come.

Motherhood is so often spoken about in terms of love, devotion, and sacrifice. And all of that is true. But it is also incomplete. Because motherhood is not only tenderness. It is endurance. It is vigilance. It is the long, quiet work of holding; physically, emotionally, invisibly - and often without pause or witness. Mothers carry a lot. In their hearts, hands and shoulders. They carry worry and responsibility, mental lists and emotional weather. They carry the unspoken nee