Em Hatha Yoga

Join me for Yoga Nidra this Sunday evening on zoom! And every full moon after!

Bring a matt, a blanket and a shallow pillow!

If you don't love it... What am I talking about? You're gonna really love it!

If you've never done meditation before this is a great place to start!

Hari Om 🙏

💥 Trikonasana (triangle pose)

😁 One of my all time favourites! Stretching my side body has always felt so oooooooo good!

😢 In the past I used to suffer from chronic low back pain... But no more!

💪 Through targeted strengthening asanas and various poses that stretch out the Quadratus Lumborum (QL) muscle (and lots of practice) now, I rarely suffer.

👀 The QL muscle is located either side of your lumbar spine and joins the top of your pelvis to your lowest ribs, it is the deepest ambondinmal muscle!

❤️ I work with a lot of clients who are very fit and active, however a lot of exercise tends to focus on our exterior layers of muscle groups, and the deepest muscles which provide us with real strength and stability are often left out of many repetitive workout regimes.

🦸‍♀️Even if you are fit and strong, if your deepest stability muscles are weak or unworked, it is easy to overcompense with the wrong muscle group causing injury and/or instability... How good is your balance?

🧘‍♀️Luckily, yoga, through balancing asanas and deep streches, these deep muscles are targeted, woken up, strengthened and stretched, giving all round good muscle health, stability and a better framework for movement.

🏃If you are fit and active, but find you have tightness, soreness, or areas that are easily injured, then bring some yoga into your life! I promise you won't regret it!

Benefits of Trikonasana

🌼 Increases stability by activating deep core muscles (forget about that superficial 6 pack!)

🌼 Reduces back pain, flat feet, anxiety, neck pain and sciatica

🌼 Strengthens thighs, knees and ankles (joint health is very important for balance and stability)

🌼 Lengthens the spine and stretches the hips, groin, hamstrings, calves, shoulders and chest

🌼 Stimulates abdominal organs, improving digestion

🌼 Increases flexibility

🧘‍♀️ZOOM YOGA!

Join from anywhere!

You just need a matt, a space, a device and a zoom account!

Class times are GMT

DM to book or for more info 🙏

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🥦Ooooo yummy yum it's lunchtime!

Today we have...

🥑Avocado on seeded sourdough toast... Excellent source of healthy fats, fibre and those much needed carbohydrates!

🧆Homemade hummus with lots of tahini

🥬Green goddess salad with cous cous (i❤️carbs... Who doesn't!), parsley and dill for flavour and chlorophyll, calcium and vitamin c to name just a few... Also raw kale again packed full of chlorophyll and essential fatty acids and is great roughage to pass through your gut, helping to scrape away dead cells of the intestinal wall for optimum gut health (of course it also feeds your microbiome, all fibre does! 🦠) and watermelon 🍉😋 great source of vitamins a, c and e, not to mention packed full of fibre and water, not only helps you feel full but also hydrated in this hot weather!

Eat well, love yourself, love food, love your gut, be happy! 😘😘😘

Eat the 🌈🌈🌈!
Having a range colour on your plate ensures you are taking in a variety of different vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and antioxidants that all work together (hello synergy 🙌) to keep your metabolism functioning like a well oiled machine... 😏 if only it were that easy... OH well at least this way is way more delicious 😋😋😋
We gots...
Green runner beans done in the wok
Roasted spiced cauliflower, carrots, sweet potato's and beetroot
Butter bean hummus
Avocado
Green cous cous salad with cabbage, kale, broad beans straight from the pod, parsley, dill, various seeds, sultanas, apple cider vinegar and sesame oil
Yeeesh!

Happy belly, happy brain, happy body 🎉

Regular classes at UiS Community Gym
First lesson free 😘
DM to book or for info
[email protected]
See you on the matt 🙏

🏵️Utthita Parsvakonasana (extended side angle pose)...

💮Stretches and strengthens the legs, ankles, knees, thighs, chest, shoulders, lungs, waist, spine and groin. This is a full body stretch that develops endurance!

💮Relieves sciatic and arthritic pains as well as muscle soreness and back pain

💮Increases muscle flexibility and joint motility to reduce risk of injury

💮Massages vital abdominal organs ensuring healthy function, stimulates blood flow aiding the body's natural detoxification process

💮Releases emotional tension, reduces stress and strengthens female organs 👏👏👏💪

For info on classes DM me or email [email protected] 🙏

☀️First lesson free! Come see how you like it 👀
☀️No previous experience with yoga necessary
☀️DM me for further details, any questions or to book your spot
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This mornings private zoom class was Yin Yoga, we spread ourselves all around and over the pillows! Thanks for joining and showing dedication to your practice, it's not easy to stay still! Public zoom class announcements coming soon!

Big thanks to The Tribes. For my beautiful logo!

Yog Nidra, beautiful practice during full moon 🌝

A year has passed, only a month together but my god did we go through some things! Deep bonds are made when you're putting yourself back together 💖💖 big love for my yogi sisters, can't wait to practice with you again

Let sleeping dogs lie...

Saffron cardamom magic

If you don't already put dark chocolate on your freezing winter morning porridge then you need to start putting dark chocolate on your freezing winter morning porridge! 🍫😋☕

The aftermath of 108 SUN salutations ☺️... This time round anyway 😆

Day 21! 108 sun salutations done!

Having spent every other day (bar 1 2,3) resting my injured hamstrings, they had healed enough so I could join back in with the challenge on the final day.

And I never expected I would be able to do all 108 after so long resting but there we are! Surprise surprise! Goal achieved... But there's more to come, another 108 days if I'm not mistaken 😁.

Check the second video of my best buddie and spirit guide Winnie helping me count and encouraging me to keep going ❤️🐕 He laid next to me for my whole Shavasana too

I call this one, the joys of blind optimism! 😂Found myself looking back at how I started the year and in the process found a photo I hadn't seen before! Thanks to for capturing this moment 😂 must have been feeling the freedom pretty hard, it was good to see almost a year on.

I don't need to mention the year the world has had, or the tightening and losening of restrictions we've been under in the UK more times than we can count. I won't lie the yoyoing has made be beyond dizzy, I haven't yet developed the resilience it takes to not affect my mental state and my behaviour.

This year has knocked me back. I've been less than productive, often acting against my own self interest or shying away from my own development. But I will get there, just need to learn me some more resilience.

I'm not one for these kinds of posts but I think some self reflection is long overdue after hiding away.

But that's just life init really! There's ups, there's downs, no point getting worked up about, that's just how anything is going to play out. There's no real duality because up and down are just parts of the same life.

So here's to recognising and ending all this nonsense and just be content to know that one day life will be like it was in this picture again, and many many many more times after that, all mixed and mushed in with the s**t times too 😁. Love yourself, it doesn't really matter, there's always another day to start again.

Breakfast has to be my favourite meal of the day 🎉

As happens sometimes I've been straying from healthy eating habits lately but this breakfast made me so excited to fully embrace what I know is good for me and to keep on track.

Didn't even eat the bacon in the end, I handed it over instead to a very grateful and hungry man.

Here's to happy tummies 💚🥦🥬🥒🍍

Outdoor socially distanced Yoga class tomorrow morning (Thursday) 10am on Parkwood Springs, £5 per person. Message me to join!

Yoga for EVERYTHING! Coming at ya with some major health benefits! Classes announced soon... 🙏✌️🙌