Finding Your Calm Space: Alternate Nostril Breathing
Alternate nostril breathing is a calming and balancing practice. Breathing through one nostril at a time is something we do naturally without realising. Students often arrive at a Yoga class…
Finding Your Calm Space: Belly Breathing
Belly breathing is calming, relaxing and good for your health. In yesterday’s blog I talked about becoming aware of the breath without trying to change it. Today we will focus…
Finding Your Calm Space: Breath Awareness is a Superpower
Breath awareness is a superpower. Humans have an exceptionally subtle ability to control and think about our own breathing. This goes alongside our highly developed speech skills[i]. By focusing on…
Finding Your Calm Space: Cool Water and Calm
Cool water and calm are best friends. We are mostly made of water. Water constitutes around sixty per cent of our bodies[i]. We count aquatic mammals like seals and whales…
Finding Your Calm Space: Calming Essential Oils
Calming essential oils are powerful. The remarkable properties of lavender, frankincense and many other distilled plant oils can hugely impact your mood and wellbeing. One day I burned my hand…
Finding Your Calm Space: Turning Yourself Upside Down
Turning yourself upside down is surprisingly calming. Any mention of handstands or headstands at a Yoga class used to make my stomach clench with worry. Like most people, I generally…
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…