It’s a New Year and we have decided to start a little feature devoted to the pets in our lives. This month’s award goes to Che, who enjoys taking part in the cat pose now and again. He’s a yogic cat at heart and likes to spend most of his time getting bendy when he’s [...]
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What can yoga offer your child? A healthier body – Childhood obesity is on the rise and one of the main reasons for it is that kids today do not move enough. Yoga is a powerful technique for children to begin moving their bodies in ways that feel good and help them look good. Even [...]
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At the yoga show back in November I really enjoyed watching the acrobatic yoga feats. Acro yoga is a new craze that is growing across the Atlantic. A small crowd of spectators oohs and ahhs over their breathtaking moves. This “flying” looks like fun, so I jump in and have a go. My new friend [...]
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I droped in on a class in North London over the weekend. Fifteen minutes into the sequence, the teacher calls the class together to demonstrate some alignment details. Half the women in the room move forward. The rest turn on their mobile phones and begin checking their messages. Those women could have been doctors on [...]
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Insomnia—the inability to get to sleep or to sleep soundly—can be either temporary or chronic, lasting a few days to weeks. It affects a whopping 54 percent of adults in the UK at one time or another, and insomnia that lasts more than six weeks may affect from 10 to 15 percent of adults at [...]
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When it came to the fitness benefits yoga can or can’t provide, yoga teacher John Schumacher had heard it all. A student of B. K. S. Iyengar for 20 years, Schumacher was convinced yoga provides a complete fitness regime. But many people, even some of his own students, disagreed. Yoga might be good for flexibility [...]
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The onset of chilly, damp weather is usually heralded by a cold. Sandra Grant explains how to minimise its miseries It starts with a tickle in the throat, then before you can lay in extra tissues you’re sneezing, have a runny nose and are feeling really under the weather. You have what doctors call an [...]
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Have you ever been shopping for sportswear, only to get home try it on and be disappointed? Experience shows that for ladies at least the choice of stylish well made outfits is slim on the ground. You normally have to head to one of those huge sports shops staffed by spotty teenagers who don’t care [...]
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Deva Premal is a classically trained musician and specialises in Bhakti yoga. She grew up singing mantras in her German home. Her albums, The Essence, Love Is Space, Embrace and Dakshina have become popular in yoga studios and healing centers throughout the world. Her latest album, The Moola Mantra, features a 50 minute extended presentation [...]
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