I previously wrote about how taking up yoga several years ago has helped me. Not only am I stronger and more flexible, I have a better connection to myself and my outlook has completely changed. This time, I want to focus on how my yoga teacher training course has helped me even more. I've been [...]
As one of the most complex emotions known to man, we are all familiar with love in one way or another. Shakespeare once said: 'Love comforteth like sunshine after rain’. John Lennon professed that ‘All you need is love’ and the Dalai Lama taught us that ‘Love is the absence of judgement’. Most people seek [...]
Music is a wonderful thing. It can lift your soul and comfort your spirit in the darkest hour. Many of us have a very intimate and deep relationship with music, it’s something we carry with us every day to work and when travelling. Our own personal life soundtrack. My father is a piano teacher at [...]
Caroline provides some tips for a better night’s sleep
I've always been considered 'sensitive.' At school, my teachers described me as conscientious and shy. I can't remember a time when I didn't observe a situation before acting, or seemed to instinctively 'know' when there was tension between others. It wasn't until a couple of months ago though that I started to understand that my [...]
We each wake up every morning with exactly £86,400 in our energy bank account. Meaning we each have 86,400 seconds in our day and how we chose to spend that energy or time is totally up to us. Some people allow this energy just to flutter away each day and then wonder where time has [...]
It’s that time of year again when people make promises to themselves to drastically change something about their life. Mostly for the better, sometimes to the detriment of their health. We start thinking about how to keep our mental happiness topped-up. Crash diets, extreme exercise, unobtainable targets to develop a new hobby. The intentions of [...]
Note to the reader: this is the third part of a series of three articles about my spiritual journey. You can find the first one at this link and the second one here. I was 18 by now and with school over, a world of endless possibilities had just opened in front of me. Together [...]
In part one of ‘Living My Life the Okinawan Way’, I spoke about my own nutrition journey and of how I take inspiration from the Okinawan diet, to better my health and the health of my family. Healthy food is without doubt a prominent component of Okinawan life, but Okinawan food culture ‘is intimately linked [...]
Life begins and ends with the breath, and every breath we take can have a positive or negative impact on our bodies depending on how it is performed. The average person breathes 25,900 times a day, which correlates to 12-16 breaths per minute. Though one of my teachers, Paul Chek, who is an internationally-renowned expert [...]
