Monthly Archives: January 2020

Six Surprising Benefits of Starting Yoga

Six Surprising Benefits of Starting Yoga

What are the benefits of starting yoga? Let’s just say there’s more to the practice than getting your leg behind your head. If you don’t practise yoga, chances are you know someone who does, and they’ve probably chewed your ear off about how it’s changed their life. Now, I’m sceptical by nature – I don’t believe in celery juice fasts,…

How to Buy a Yoga Mat (Without Having a Panic Attack)

How to Buy a Yoga Mat (Without Having a Panic Attack)

As a yoga teacher, one of the questions I get asked the most (besides “do I have to be flexible to start yoga?”) is “what mat should I buy?”. Back in the good old days, there wasn’t much choice – you had one size (small), style (purple) and material (PVC). It was a simpler time when yoga was only practised…

Five Books That Helped Me to Love my Body Again

Five Books That Helped Me to Love my Body Again

Today, I’m sharing my favourite eating disorder recovery books in the hope they will help you to love your body again. I spent most of my teens and early 20s waging war on my body, beating it into submission with extreme diets, exercise and beauty regimes. I suppose extreme might be an understatement – I actually suffered from anorexia, bulimia…