Category: Yoga
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Pigeon Pose
The Pigeon Pose (Kapotasana) is a great asana (pose), that handles stiff hips. It comes from a group of asanas, known as the ‘hip openers’, which helps keep our lower bodies to be as supple as possible. Not only does Pigeon Pose increase the external rotation of the hip socket’s femur bone, it also lengthens…
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Yoga Festival Spirit
A few years ago, I was invited to an exclusive Yoga healing festival in Portugal. It was an intimate gathering of less than 5,000 people and unlike any of these commercial Yoga retreats or British festivals that might come to mind. You had to be personally invited by someone to keep it intimate and connected…
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Camel Pose (Ustrasana)
Since my back injury in January, I’ve had to retrain my back muscles slowly and securely. For me, back bending has always been a way to distress as I feel it resets my response to stress – sounds bizarre, I know. The Body When backbending, you open up the chest and thorax and ultimately test…
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Lotus in the City
When you first clicked onto my blog, you may have asked yourself “what does Lotus in the City mean?” It is simply a metaphor – a state of being that I’ve felt throughout my whole life. I’ve always felt that I am constantly trying to keep myself balanced in a dualistic state. An example of…
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Dream Yoga
So, tomorrow I’m going to a Dream Yoga discussion in Euston to find out more about Lucid Dreaming. I remember studying Lucid Dreaming when I studied Psychology during my A-Level’s and there was a lot of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung – who I found very interesting back then but would probably contradict most things…
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