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Archive for the 30 days of yoga category

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Why Home Yoga Practice is a Powerful Tool for Body Acceptance

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Guest Post by Anna Guest-Jelley (co-host, with me, of 30 Days of Curvy Yoga) When I started practicing yoga, I did it at home. There wasn’t a class on every corner like there is today. But the main reason I did it is that even the idea of going to a class made me feel [...]

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Enough!

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Last week I wrote about all the women I know who are working harder and harder and harder, and still feel they can never do, or be enough. I’ve been thinking about them all week, particularly with the polarised debate raging online and in the mainstream media about ‘Lean In’ – the new book from Sheryl [...]

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I know need this now because I don’t have time for it.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Today one of my 30 Days of Yoga graduates wrote a post explaining why she’s signing up again for the course starting next Monday. She wrote: I need this right now. Because I don’t have time. Because I’m too tired to make the effort on my own. Because I feel weak and I know it’ll [...]

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You can’t do any better (but you can feel better)

Saturday, March 9th, 2013

In the past week I’ve spoken to more than a dozen of my female friends about their current work, family and life situation. Two things struck me about all these conversations. Firstly, everyone is doing so much and secondly, no-one feels they are doing enough. One of the women works in a government department where [...]

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New and improved 30 Days of Yoga courses open for registration today

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

We’ve been working on an upgrade to my 30 Days of Yoga courses for almost four months. And it’s done! It’s beautiful, highly functional, and will make the experience of these courses even more enjoyable. Which is not bad, given this is what people said about the old version: “Wowza. This is all so deeply [...]

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Why Kindness (Not Willpower) is Key to Starting a Healthy Habit

Sunday, October 7th, 2012

Have you ever decided to start a new healthy habit (a daily home yoga or meditation practice, an exercise regime, a new way of organising your work day) only to fall flat after a few days, or weeks. You probably ended up feeling worse then ever, since before you could at least imagine you would do [...]

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I’m (almost) 40. Which means it’s time for you to do some yoga.

Monday, April 30th, 2012

On 6 May, I’ll be 40 years old. I will be celebrating my birthday in a guesthouse in Herat, where the only people I know are highly well-behaved Afghans, and one (relatively, by Afghan standards) less well-behaved Italian. As you might imagine, my birthday celebrations are likely to vary considerably depending on whose company I [...]

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Keep Your Socks On. Or Take Them Off.

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Guest post by the lovely Anna Guest-Jelley of Curvy Yoga (that’s her in the photo over there, making yoga look fun!) Many of my beginning yoga students are unsure about what to do with their socks — or shoes. Keep them on or take them off? I can relate. After all, it’s not often that many of [...]

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Three reasons Karma yoga may not be right for you.

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Registrations for my annual Karma edition of 30 Days of Yoga close this coming Saturday (midnight GMT, which means 5pm PST) and I know some of you are wondering if this is right for you. So I’ve been giving some thought to how I can help you decide whether or not this is right for you [...]

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How I got on the self-care wagon. Then fell off. Then got on again.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

(Warning: that’s a screen grab from the video, not the video itself. I know, tricky huh? Sorry! I couldn’t embed the video here, but you can watch it over here) While I was in San Francisco I met the delightful Willo O’Brien in person after almost a year of online and phone conversations. I first [...]

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