by Alison | Sep 9, 2020 | emotions, healing, meditation, mental health, self care, wellbeing, yoga
In my yoga and therapy practice, particularly in my work with new mothers, people often say to me that they have no time to themselves, and certainly no time to sit in meditation. I know from my own experience of early motherhood that there really was no time to call...
by Alison | Sep 9, 2020 | emotions, healing, meditation, mental health, self care, wellbeing, yoga
In Buddhism, as well as in yoga philosophy, there is a term maitri, which means loving-kindness or friendliness. Imagine someone you hold most dear: a partner, a parent, a child. Feel that very simple and uncomplicated love – an unconditional love which...
by Alison | Sep 9, 2020 | emotions, healing, meditation, mental health, self care, wellbeing, yoga
How many times during the day are you truly in the present moment? How many times are you mindful of your actions, your breath, your body, your thought processes? For many of us, it is very few. We may move through our day on auto-pilot, dwelling on something from...
by Alison | Sep 9, 2020 | childbirth, healing, meditation, reflexology, self care, wellbeing, yoga
The other day a client commented after her treatment that she felt so different after just half an hour, and it seemed as though she had been there so much longer. At work, she said, 30 minutes could pass so quickly, sometimes with so little to show for it, yet in...
by Alison | Sep 9, 2020 | emotions, healing, meditation, mental health, self care, wellbeing, yoga
In my last post, I wrote about the importance of being able to stay with our uncomfortable feelings, and to let them pass. In my yoga teaching and therapy practice, as well as in my own personal life, it is evident that we really struggle with our emotions, and...
by Alison | Jun 15, 2020 | emotions, healing, meditation, mental health, self care, wellbeing, yoga
We call our emotions feelings, yet sometimes – or even, usually – we do anything and everything to avoid feeling them. When is the last time you really allowed an emotion to flood your body and then stayed with it? If you felt sad, did you just allow that...
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