The Yogic Perspective: Activating Muscles for Power, Strength and Balance.
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The Yogic Perspective: Activating Muscles for Power, Strength and Balance.
With regards to muscle power, there’s a massive difference between “activation” and just “tensing”. Just those words make it clear. One definition of tense is; “stretched tight or rigid..” which really doesn’t sound useful at all….. But we all know what “active” means.
Read MoreWhen Does our Natural Spine Become Compromised? (and how do we manage this?)
Today’s intention – how does your body feel right now? Stiff? Sore? Injured? Got a Fit Bit? When did you stop being able to squat down or sit on the floor easily? When did your body begin to ache and not move quite as easily as it once did? We can all blame this on “getting…
Read MoreJoining the Culture Club! Keeping it simple when making water kefir & kombucha
Fermenting is all the rage right now and why not? Many of us have compromised gut health either due to genetics or stress/lifestyle and so it’s important to ingest as much good bacteria as possible from as many different sources as possible. Here are my simple, so-far-haven’t-failed, recipes for water kefir and kombucha.
Read MoreThe Truth About Calcium (and How to Manage It)
Believe it or not, most humans are born with plenty of calcium and the trick is to enjoy a diet and lifestyle that doesn’t cause too much of it to leach from the bones into the blood. This can happen (for one example) if the system is too acidic and the body is trying to…
Read MoreHow to Practise Tadasana or Samasthiti (in Daily Life as Well as Class)
Samasthiti or tadasana helps us create awareness of our “normal” posture. It can help us realise the habits we have slipped in to, the strength we have lost; the tension we might naturally hold on to in order to try to keep ourselves upright.
Tadasana translates to mean mountain pose whereas samasthiti means “upright” or “equal”. In other words, to establish a sense of power and relaxation in a dynamic yet soft way. Tadasana and samasthiti represent a kind of “proforma” for all the standing poses. What we do in these poses, we try to recreate in most of the other standing postures in some way.
Read More“Get Your 2017 Yoga Body Now!” (& Why This Matters Much but Should be Ignored)
Every New Year, many of us embark on self-improvement plans and challenges. Some resolves and intentions we may stick with for the longer term, but mostly, the standards we can set ourselves at the beginning of January are so high and unattainable, that we often fail miserably and revert back to normal habits pretty quickly – only with an…
Read MoreMango & Cashew Salad
The original creator of this salad was Neil Perry for the SMH’s Good Weekend magazine. It’s so tangy and delicious that I make it all the time, but I generally never follow recipes to the letter so it always changes a bit depending on what I have. Neil’s original recipe for example was with macadamias but…
Read MoreWhen you Squeeze, your Organs Wheeze!
The Secret to all Balances….? In a fitness or yoga class situation, if you are instructed to “engage your core” what do you automatically do? Chances are you will tighten and/or squeeze something. Or even a lot of things – and it would take a lot more than a few lines of text here to…
Read MoreRaw Chocolate Organic Fruit & Nut Energy Bites
Finally, here is the recipe for the raw chocolate energy bars I made a few weeks ago as sustenance on an almost 30k walk without having to stop to eat a meal. I wanted to take something that was easy to nibble on the go, wouldn’t feel too filling and contained all the essential ingredients…
Read MoreIt’s All About the Balance: Why I Love Them (and you should too!)
I love the challenges of unsupported balances and include lots of them in my sequences. I find that at different times my balance changes – sometimes I have it and other times, it’s not so good but it’s the same with all of us! For me, instead of frustration, I open up a line of…
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