JUST A TOUCH OF TULIPS

This post was published back in April 2014. I was going to write another blog about tulips but decided to simply revamp the old one and pop it out in the world again. We are currently immersed in what I think of as The Weird Time. The world we have known is upskittled, which on … Continued



OPENING LIKE A FLOWER….

The words below are taken from Sandra Sabatini’s book, ‘like a flower, My Years of Yoga with Vanda  Scaravelli’ The photographs are all my own but if you buy Sandra’s book there are wonderful photographs throughout.  I have now been practicing/living yoga for 20 years and at the beginning all I wanted was to work … Continued



OM YOGA SHOW….MANCHESTER.

This is just a brief post about the OM YOGA SHOW which is back up here in Manchester.  We in the North West are very proud of our city and it is great to have lots of super yoga folk descending upon us and sharing all their love and joy about yoga, tai chi, Pilates … Continued



WALK IN BEAUTY….

          A Navajo Prayer With Beauty beside me I walk. With Beauty behind me I walk. With Beauty before me I walk. With Beauty inside me I walk.       It is finished in Beauty.                         — Ana Forrest’s version … Continued



TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION…FORTY YEARS ON.

There has been a lovely double issue of OM Yoga magazine for me to gently read through these past two months. I began my year in a slow and gradual way. I have been in no real hurry to get up to speed and leap into all that ‘New Year, New Me’ thing. I have … Continued



JUST ANOTHER WALK!

We are now well on our way towards February! I have had a wee break from pretty well everything or so it seems. I actually have been massaging and teaching yoga as normal and somewhere along the way I kind of lost track of time. The thing is that the week between Christmas and New … Continued



SOME THOUGHTS ON A FROSTY MORNING….

Sunday, and a quiet day after our lovely Christmas Day with family and then the unexpected blizzard on our motorway trip home. I woke feeling a deep sadness, a dream I couldn’t recollect? Or simply the need to feel. Whatever the reason  the day was simply beautiful. The sky, a deep blue, the air still … Continued



RAW CHOCOLATE!

It is ages since I lasted popped a recipe on my blog. The days are short of light and for some it’s just a tad cold. Therefore, it must be a good time to plot a chocolate-making session. At all my yoga workshops there is homemade cake and some chocolate delight. My workshop tomorrow will … Continued



MY MALA….

We were away last weekend enjoying a visit to the North East, the Land of My Birth. On returning home I found a small parcel awaiting me.  A few weeks ago it came to me that I would love to have a mala. I do have two already which were given to me when visiting … Continued



YOGA SUPPORT.

The lovely OM Yoga Magazine is well and truly out! It is simply full of great articles. I particularly like all that has been written in the ‘Yoga For Every Body‘ part of the magazine. I have always been ‘well-built’! Now that means many things to many people but basically I have always been a … Continued