Photo a Day collection – June 2019
I can't believe that we've already completed the June prompts: This year feels like it is flying by! I'm not certain if doing a daily challenge like this makes the days pass more slowly or faster! Anyway, here are the photos I submitted for the FMS Photo a Day...
Photo a Day collection – May 2019
This month was dubbed Rainbow month by Chatelle (AKA FatMumSlim) and she proprosed that we should all take photos of us in clothing that involved the colours. This wasn't likely to happen with me, as I didn't have much time to go clothes shopping, and whilst my...
When it all gets too much
I recently wrote about stress and what happens to the body in a very broad strokes sort of way. We all encounter stress and for the most part we can deal with it, and we don't have any major reactions to it. However, for some people their bodies react in a very...
Jaw exercises – The Scream
So, an area of the body that can hold a lot of tension is the jaw. It is the only bone that we consciously move that crosses the mid line of the body and has a joint at each end. There are so many descriptions that refer to keeping the mouth closed: "Grin and bear...
Breathing – Rib motion – sharira mudras
Like the three breathing exercises based up on the Brugger Exercises (First one is here) the aim of this exercise is to help identify the way that we breathe. One of the areas that often needs investigating is how much (or little) our ribcage actually moves during...
May and June 2019 – Changes to clinic times and classes
May has a number of bank holidays, and I'm (unsurprisingly) on a couple of courses. This means that there a couple of oddities with regards to clinics and classes. This might also mean that my diary gets a bit full. I am also away for 10 days in June, so I have...
Photo a Day collection – April 2019
So here is the photo collection for April 2019. I still love this group, and taking the photos makes me pay attention to everything around me. So here are this month's photos. April 1st - funFun doesn't have to be small children, fun can be sitting reading and...
Let’s talk about stress…
Stress /strɛs/ noun: stress pressure or tension exerted on a material object. "the distribution of stress is uniform across the bar" the degree of stress measured in units of force per unit area. a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse...
An ancient practice
I keep wondering whether I actually truly practice yoga or not. Why do I keep thinking this? Well, it's that wonderful thing call Social Media. So many of the yoga accounts that I follow, including some magazines and journals are full of scantily clad nubile young...