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Our preconception of what yoga is (and isn’t) is often a barrier for us even stepping on a mat in the first place and doing something that can be gob-smackingly relaxing and good for us. If this applies to you, and you dismiss even trying the practice because of your ideas about it, then read on, and give it a try! You never really know what something actually tastes like to you until you try it for yourself!
Mindfulness and well-being in the workplace have never been more important. Our work environment and pressure can start to seriously compromise our basic human needs, running us down and making us inefficient, irritable and jaded. Here I introduce my top 7 tips for staying in top form!
Over the last few years Mindfulness has come to the awareness of the general public internationally, although its roots can be traced thousands of years back. Here one of our expert teachers Elina Kivikoski explains what Mindfulness is exactly and how you practise it!
A lot of time with ‘beauty’ enhancement we can tend to focus on our outer veneer and don’t recognise the impact of our inner physiological condition, emotions, and indeed our sense of ‘spiritual’ fulfilment when it comes to the quality of what we radiate to others.
Yoga does much more than work on the musculoskeletal system! It can significantly impact your entire state. When you have physiological imbalances it has the power to alter the associated physical, emotional and mental faculties through it’s impact on the connective tissue on the body.
Talking about the experience of fatigue and burnout, what it feels like – including sharing from my own personal experience – as well as discussing root causes of it, and wellbeing practices that help such as Acupuncture.
Sometimes the obstructions in our life moving forward originates ‘internally’ – within the body itself. Other times it’s due to the ‘external’ circumstances around us, and we need to learn to manage both. I look at the nature of our ‘internal’ state and how it influences how we see the world.
There’s often a strange irony for me when I treat and teach people in corporate positions who are walking through my door wracked with stress and the many corresponding complaints that it creates in the body-mind; fatigue, insomnia, digestive problems and strained relationships.
So what’s going on here? Why do so many of us suffer from such stress and lack of nourishment from our chosen job. What I see a lot, is rather than someone’s job being an extension of their inner passions and innate abilities, is that going to work is more like going to battle!
