Musings + Philosophy
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Musings + Philosophy 〰️
What is Vinyasa Flow?
If you're scratching your head or stroking your beard and wandering "but what is Vinyasa Flow?" then fear not my quizical friend, because this is exactly the question we will be answering in today's post. So read on and prepare to come away well and truly clued up.
Want a career as a Yoga Teacher? Read this first.
I simply wish to outline the reality, the instability and the struggles that can come with being a YT. And I want to be transparent about the financial side of things - because it is bleeping important for us to know average earning potential and the reality so many are faced with.
Sick of your Inner Critic? Get ready to meet your new best mate…
Hey Yoga teacher! You won’t be everyone’s cuppa…
Let yourself feel it. Observe whether there was something you might have done better. Give yourself a cuddle (and/or get a cuddle from someone else) and know that it is fine to be bummed out for a bit if you aren’t someone’s vibe.
A rant: What is Yoga? Human variability and why everything can’t be Yoga…can it?
Is one pose right and one wrong? I think the general population may be more inclined to get injured in a strictly aesthetic practice if the aesthetic is to be a flexible as possible, but with good guidance this certainly is not a binary truth.
Shame and New Year’s Resolutions: How can we set them with compassion?
What does it look like and feel like for you to set goals as if you already believed you were enough?
Just pay attention...
Thoughts are the brain's version of the lungs filling and emptying with breath or the heart pumping. It's just what it does. Read that again. Your thoughts are just the function of the organ of the brain. As Mo Gawdat once said, “We don’t say: I piss therefore I am!” we do not identify with the functions of our bladder, yet we identify with our thoughts.
CH-ch-ch-chaaanges! How to roll with them.
“Everything else can be taken from you, but this power to choose what you think, what you remember, and what you believe about yourself is untouchable.”
― Nate Zinsser, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
Loneliness, are we all feeling it?
I’ve had some beautiful conversations about loneliness this week, they’ve been a catalyst for me to talk more about it…
Slow down to feel more.
When a teacher said this in class years ago, it was one of those incredible light bulb moments where suddenly a concept I was previously unable to grasp, just made sense. I’m aware it sounds quite unsexy but honestly hand on heart that phrase revolutionised much of my practice and has been a guiding principle for me as a teacher.
Being a beginner and the art of Vulnerability.
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.” - Brené Brown
Your Nervous System, Polyvagal Theory and Yoga.
Ever wondered what ‘rest-and-digest’ is or wtf your yoga teacher is on when they talk about calming the nervous system with breathwork? Babe, grab a big cuppa and your reading specs and chomp your teeth into this one.
Introduction to the Yamas and the Eightfold Path of Yoga (The Yoga Ashtanga).
Food, Yoga, Ahimsa and the Ego.
Hands up if you think to be a Yoga Person you have to be Vegan or at the least Veggie?