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After some minor surgery on Monday, I am now unable to do any yoga for the rest of the week. Needless to say, that this felt like a serious blow and my first thoughts were for the students I would let down this week by cancelling my classes. The second blow was yesterday evening, whenContinue reading “The Power of the Mind”

“We can never truly fail as there are no errors in the system”, Mansukh Patel. A few weeks ago I started a new routine, trying to find some extra time to practise breathing exercises every day. Since my mornings are already pretty full, I decided to do these exercises in the evening. I stuck atContinue reading “Perseverance”

At the beginning of each yoga class, I invite my students to stand in Tadasana, the mountain pose. As they stand still, I bring their attention to their feet, to the contact with the mat. I take it further and ask them to imagine that they are on the bare earth, breathing in the energyContinue reading “Grounding”

Letting go doesn’t come naturally to me. When I started yoga, I was probably the only person in the class who didn’t look forward to the relaxation. As far as I was concerned, I came to my yoga classes to get toned and stretched… and to relax as well, but somehow I didn’t see theContinue reading “The Crocodile – or the art of letting go.”

I started an experiment last Monday. After years of waking up to reach for the alarm and get up in a slight daze to start my yoga routine, which would then wake me up fully and get my day started right, I have decided to experiment with waking up mindfully. Waking up mindfully means wakingContinue reading “Waking up mindfully”

This morning, I went for an unplanned walk. After dropping my daughters at school, I didn’t go straight back home to switch on my computer and get on with my daily activities, I decided to go for a little walk. The weather was mild and the walk thoroughly enjoyable. I walked slowly, looking at theContinue reading “Doing the Unexpected”

Yesterday I created a vision board for the first time. Sure, I had heard about vision boards before and been intrigued by them but I had never given it a go.  A vision board is rather simple. Starting with a blank piece of paper or card, you stick, draw or write anything that you wantContinue reading “Creating a vision board”

This afternoon there was a power cut while I was at work. Whereas I was happy sitting and enjoying doing nothing, most of my colleagues were looking for things to do, tidying up their desks, walking restlessly around the office… As I was sitting, revelling in the peace and quiet, I realised that the joyContinue reading “More than flexibility”

Mindfulness is all around us at the moment, there isn’t a day that goes past without somebody mentioning it, at work, in the medias… I used to approach mindfulness with a very focused, “I am going to be mindful of my actions” state of mind. It kind of worked when I was focused on whatContinue reading “Journaling – Being in the moment”

Journaling is something I do from time to time to put to paper what I have going on in my head, to clarify my thoughts. Usually, I write these thoughts down on notepads and – having several notepads – I usually misplace what I have previously written to find it much later on. Some organisationContinue reading “Journaling – change of air”