Finding Your Calm Space: Secure and Loving Touch
Touch is our first sense. At just eight weeks from conception, a human foetus develops the sense of touch, beginning with the face, lips and nose. By twelve weeks the…
Finding Your Calm Space: Food, Stress and Calm
I recently blu-tacked a note to the kitchen wall as a reminder for my family. It read, “If Mum is getting stressed, encourage her to eat some muesli”. I have…
Finding Your Calm Space: Restorative Yoga and Effortless Rest
Restorative Yoga involves a lot of lying down. It can look as if you are doing nothing. And that is actually the point. When I first started going to Restorative…
Finding Your Calm Space: Walking Barefoot on the Earth
Walking barefoot connects us to the calming security of the earth. Whether you think of this as a spiritual grounding or simply a physical pleasure, the soles of our feet…
Finding Your Calm Space: Paying Attention to Your Body
Paying attention to your body is one of the most important things you can do for yourself. Primary School Drama When I was aged nine or so, a slightly hippieish…
Finding Your Calm Space, Day Three: Recognising When You Need Calm
Recognising when you need calm is the first step to building calm into your life. I have to keep learning this the hard way. As a busy person, I…
Finding Your Calm Space, Day Two: Calming Your Nervous System
Calming your Nervous System When I was training to be a midwife, a health visitor, a yoga teacher and a reflexologist, one topic kept coming up over and over again:…
Finding Your Calm Space, Day One: I Am Not a Very Calm Person
I am not a very calm person - that’s why I need calm When I told my husband that I was planning to write a book in 31 blogs about…
Fertility Yoga: The Difference between Surrender and Letting Go
I did a Fertility Yoga Teacher Training course yesterday. It was halfway through the day before I realised why I needed it. Then the tears came. This is a difficult…
How I feel about teaching online Yoga classes
Teaching my Yoga Classes online is bittersweet. It makes me feel happy and sad all at the same time. I never planned or expected to teach online Yoga classes I…