Ok enough is enough. My ITB band is out of control. It's sore hard and is killing my knees and hip joints and god knows what else. As always it's hard to know if the cause, or the effect of poor...
Temporarily saying goodbye to my beloved yoga studio and 2nd home for the last 7 years is very hard. I’m guessing I must be nearing 1000 classes taken here, so I’m really shaking up my routine....
Yesterday I had a really great class. As is often the case, a great class is triggered by an inspirational and beautifully delivered dialogue. This time it came from one of my favourite teachers:...
My experience over the last 15 years is largely with Ashtanga and Bikram, where the Primary series or the Beginners series usually follow the same sequence of postures. Of course everyday is...
Last week I had a back flare up and my whole lower back area became sore and inflamed. A friend of mine who swears by supplements and herbs suggested I try a high potency Turmeric supplement. I...
Good class today and quite focused, until halfway, when I randomly remembered a teacher quoting Yoda is a class a couple of years back. “Do or do not, there is no try" The teacher suddenly...
The two pictures below say it all. The first one of Darth Vader is bad me... And the 2nd one quoting Confucius, is sensible enlightened me... Ok I get it, but what happens when you keep on running...
"Don’t eat up to two hours before class. Just try a smoothie! Avoid dairy! Don’t practice on an empty stomach!" Do any of these sound familiar? Dietary advice before a morning yoga class can be...
When it comes to yoga, is coffee the devil? I’ve given up caffeine almost as many times as sugar! But some mornings I just can’t make it out the door without my freshly pressed cup of Java! If I...
I love how cultures behave differently around yoga. I especially like it when folks don’t bend to ‘perceived yoga norms’ (not that they really exist). When I was in New York last year, I came out...
Why do I stick with yoga? I often feel like a shit in class, but unless I walk out injured, I always feel better at the end of a session. One of my favourite teachers explained this feeling as...
I spent the last weekend with my family and casually mentioned over dinner that I’d booked onto a residential yoga workshop. My Mum scoffed and then said loudly, supposedly 'out of earshot'. "I...
Ok so thinking about this blog hasn’t helped my focus much. I need to try being present again. It's so hard! Concentrating very hard on not thinking feels impossible. I get there for a moment, but...
Hi I’m Dave….and I often tell myself: “I can’t do yoga" Of course I do yoga, I’ve stuck with yoga, but it’s a struggle! In class today it started so well. My goal was to quiet my mind and focus....