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Supporting Carer’s Trust ~ Xmas25
2025’s Giving Tuesday’s charity sessions in w/c Monday 1st December will be in aid of Carer’s Trust. All profits from this week will be donated and I’ll also be asking for any £ uplift you would be able to give. Why have I chosen this charity? Carers Trust ensures carers are supported and that young…
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Natural rhythms
This week, I’ve been thinking about the cycles that mark out time passing. Possibly this is because I am now a woman at a certain stage and possibly because the weather has been so unseasonal until this week! As mentioned in some of our Pranayama & Savasana recently, we tend to measure time in hours…
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Looking after no.1
You’d have to have been living in your own headspace/a cave not to have noticed the increase in discussions around mindfulness in recent months. I’m by no means a media barometer (I barely scrape the surface of iPlayer) but I have seen books galore, including by several celebrities, and mentions including some decent scientific due…
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Charity Yoga for Sue Ryder
Hello and Happy New Year! It’s that time of year when you might be setting some resolutions for the weeks, months or even years ahead. If you’ve always wanted to try yoga but aren’t sure it’s for you, come along and join my trial class for charity on Tuesday 10th January, at 7pm in Cricklade.…
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Is there a bad yogi(ni) in all of us?
You may well have discovered that there is big back story to yoga. If you’re spending time in the gym for 60 mins of fast-paced Asana, you may miss out on some of this info, or you may not. There’s a real difference of opinion around whether it’s important to understand the spiritual and emotional elements…
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Learning about life
I’ve discovered a little gem of a website: The School of Life. I can imagine that for some of us, when faced with a name like that and an address in London, we think “that’s not for me”. Bear with: there’s a fair chunk of high-falutin’ stuff and London-centric events on there, but look around and…
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The cult of busyness
I hope some of you may have been able to catch up with the excellent series on BBC Radio 4 from Oliver Burkeman about that very modern problem, busyness. I love a well-researched documentary any day of the week, but this podcast took my insight into how mindfulness might help our mental and physical health…
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