by Laura | May 19, 2017 | Mindfulness, Positivity, Unconscious bias
Three tips to objectively address, and compassionately ignore, the little voice in your head. A weird thing happened last week. It was early – and dark – and a group of yoga students and teachers were talking outside of the studio before class. A man, a...
by Laura | May 8, 2017 | Grief, Yoga
Fierce medicine is probably the most impactful book I’ve ever read. I read this book during my yoga teacher training, and during a holiday trip to Paris, I was reading it when my Nana passed away, and when I flew back for her funeral. Somehow (or so I thought) each...
by Laura | Jan 11, 2017 | Forgiveness, Mindfulness, Personal Development
As we leave 2016 and start to plan for the year ahead I find we are very unforgiving towards ourselves – for last years mistakes, things we didn’t achieve, how terribly we ate and drank over the holiday period (hi there…). I’m guilty of this,...
by Laura | Aug 15, 2016 | Mindfulness, Personal Development, Positivity
A few weeks ago, I made a mistake. Yes, it’s true, and here I am admitting it. Very uncomfortably. Why is “mistake” such a dirty word for so many of us? I took a look at my own reaction and came up with three ways I could start to embrace my mistakes, and see them as...
by Laura | Jul 7, 2016 | Mindfulness, Reactivity, Yoga
An intention I’ve been working with in the past weeks is actually inspired by something a FANTASTIC YogaOne teacher, Piper, mentioned in one of her classes. There’s a Native American legend that speaks of two wolves fighting within all of us. One is evil, and...
by Laura | Jun 27, 2016 | Grief, Meditation, Mindfulness, Yoga
In the “More Than Asana” weekend we learned about the eight-limb path of yoga described in the Yoga Sutras in Patañjali’s Treaties on Yoga. I say “learned about”, ultimately we learned the concepts exist; we barely dipped a single toe into the ocean of life-long...
