Author Archives: treelightyoga

Do you sleep well or not ? What can you do if you don’t sleep particularly well? The reason I’m talking about this is because so many of my clients after a class comment on how well they’re going to sleep that particular night. Which implies that other nights, the sleep isn’t quite as restfulContinue reading “3 ways to sleep well every night”

I remember a time in my life when I didn’t use to sleep very well at all. I was particularly stressed and getting to sleep at night was a nightmare. I got to the point where I was fearing night time because I just knew I wouldn’t sleep. Obviously, that didn’t help! I ended upContinue reading “How are you sleeping?”

I want to talk to you about the news and the impact of the news on your wellbeing and your happiness level. I’m sure you can see where I’m going with that, because how many people feel upbeat and happy after watching the news? Not many I should think. Actually quite the opposite. I knowContinue reading “How can I watch the news without getting stressed?”

I remember when I was 18. I went to the GP for recurring headaches. After listening to me explaining the headaches, he asked me how I was feeling apart from the headaches. And out of nowhere, I started crying. A whole lot of things came out, from worries about what I was going to doContinue reading “How to lift yourself out of continuous low-level anxiety?“

As I was growing up in Belgium, I got into the habit of starting a lot of my sentences with “Moi, je….”, which literally translates to “Me, I…”.  My mother used to pick up on it pretty much every time and reminded me that I shouldn’t be starting my sentences with Me and I oneContinue reading “You deserve to be number 1”

After only sleeping 4 hours last night, I woke up this morning feeling grotty, stiff and tense. I usually sleep like a baby the second my head touches the pillow. Yesterday was exactly like that, until one of my daughters woke me up after having a nightmare. And it took a good deal of soothingContinue reading “5 things you can do to sleep like a baby”

Being a yoga teacher, some of my friends can assume that I am always calm, relaxed and immune to the effects of stress. Not quite.  The advantage that yoga gives me is that I have built a buffer zone so that I don’t get stressed as easily as I used to, and when I doContinue reading “How can I reduce my stress levels?”

I used to hate autumn… With a passion! It meant the end of summer, the stress of back to school (that’s the thing when you are from a family of teachers, even if you are not one of them, September always has that stressful quality to it!), and the beginning of noticeably shorter days.   ForContinue reading “Autumn, Love it or Hate it?”

A couple of weeks ago, I took part in a 1-day yoga training around the theme of creativity.  Creativity is essential to our mental wellbeing as being involved in something creative focuses the mind and can have the same relaxing effects on the body/mind than a meditation.  Creativity also has a positive effect on anxiety,Continue reading “Act like a 4-year-old”

In every single one of my yoga classes, I will say multiple times “listen to your body”, “make sure you are comfortable”, “don’t go further than what feels right”, and other sentences to that effect. The key message can be summed up as “Be kind to yourself.”  After all, one of the first principles ofContinue reading “The importance of being kind to yourself”