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Yoga poses to trim down

As we age it easier to put on weight, the metabolism slows down so we need to watch the energy intake and output more closely. Hormones also affect how and where we store fat on our body. My aim is to show you a variety of poses which lengthen the spine and make you moveContinue reading “Yoga poses to trim down”

Yoga poses to help with jet lag

Australia (or ‘down under’) is sooo far away from everything we need to travel long haul, crossing several time zones in the process. While my parents were alive I made regular trips to Hungary (about 25 trips!). Many years ago the floor at the airport lounges were carpeted, nowadays cold tiles. If you ever sawContinue reading “Yoga poses to help with jet lag”

Yoga poses to assist digestion

Sometimes our eyes want to eat more than our stomach can handle. The Ayurvedic guideline is to have 1/3 of your stomach filled with food, 1/3 with liquid and the remaining 1/3 is “space” to allow digestion. I regularly misjudge the 1/3 food 🙂 Sitting on the floor while you eat helps to limit theContinue reading “Yoga poses to assist digestion”

Love your feet and toes – management of arthritis in feet

When was the last time that you thanked your feet for carrying you to your destination – day after day, year after year? As long as we are healthy, we take it for granted that our body functions as it should do. I used to bush-walk and we often talked about boots, orthotics, dome underContinue reading “Love your feet and toes – management of arthritis in feet”

Yoga for Cramps

Do you know the feeling of toes rigidly curling up and would not release or the calf muscle pains and you have to jump out of bed, walk a bit before returning to bed? My students (just like me) are over the age of 50. In class sometimes students get a cramp, generally in theContinue reading “Yoga for Cramps”

Yoga for seniors / ageing well

Recently attended a two-day workshop (run by Elizabeth Williams) on how to teach yoga to seniors. In this context senior is someone over the age of 65. She is a senior person herself, a nurse, trainer of nurses and a yoga teacher. Elizabeth thinks age care is medicalised, it is not possible to get aContinue reading “Yoga for seniors / ageing well”

Yoga for Anxiety

‘FEAR KNOCKED AT THE DOOR – FAITH ANSWERED – THERE WAS NO-ONE THERE’ Some time ago I attended a two day workshop by Sally Flynn which focused on how to reduce anxiety with regular yoga practice. The topic is very close to my heart, to my personality. What is anxiety? It is “a feeling of worry,Continue reading “Yoga for Anxiety”