by Tim Harwood | Jul 13, 2022 | Breathing Exercises, Exercises, Yoga
This is a breathing technique that I learnt on my yoga teacher training. It is said to cool the body and so should only be practiced during hot weather. As I write this in July 2022, we are experiencing a heatwave (temperatures over 27C and rising) and I am finding...
by Tim Harwood | May 3, 2019 | Breathing Exercises, Exercises, Yoga
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...
by Tim Harwood | Apr 5, 2019 | Books, Yoga
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...
by Tim Harwood | Jun 22, 2018 | General, Myofascial Release, Yoga
One of the most common things that comes up in conversation with my clients is about posture: something along the lines of them saying “I know my posture is really bad…”. I try to reply in a non-judgmental way that it might not be helping with...
by Tim Harwood | Mar 9, 2018 | Meditation, Yoga
One of this month’s FMS Photo a Day prompts made me think about the sounds of the world around us. The prompt was “silent” and the hard part (fun part) of this group is trying to find a way to express the prompts in an interesting and photogenic...
by Tim Harwood | Jan 30, 2018 | Books, Myofascial Release, Yoga
As part of my Yoga Teacher Training course we were told about the book The Body keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk (2014) as it discusses the benefits of yoga in getting in touch with the internal awareness of the body (interoception) and how this can be very...
