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Why you can't rush healing (and what to do instead) heal healing meditation relax rest restore retreat trauma yoga

We live in a world of instant gratification. We want the perfect partner, job, bank account - and to heal our trauma in a single breathwork session. But healing (and life) doesnā€™t work that way.

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Could you be missing this one critical ingredient of wellness? yoga

Iā€™ve experimented with many weird and wonderful things on the path to wellness; green smoothies, Chakra balancing, strange breathing practises and perhaps the most obscure - a salt water cleanse durin...

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The art of letting go yoga

One of the biggest lessons Iā€™ve learnt from Yoga is the art of letting go. As a typical type A, this has not been easy ā€“ indeed itā€™s an ongoing practice (and sometimes battle!).

For years I had a ten...

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Is self study selfish? yoga

Swadhyaya or self study is one of the five Niyamas (personal disciplines or observances) from Patanjaliā€™s eightfold path and frankly, the point of Yoga!Ā 

There can be a tendency in the we

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5 Steps to getting on the yoga mat (when it's the last thing you feel like doing) yoga

As human beings weā€™re naturally drawn to what makes us feel good and when we start practicing Yoga, it can feel damn good.Ā 

But like anything the honeymoon period can wear off. How many t

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