Benefits of Swan Stretch - Cakravakasana

Come into a kneeling position with your big toes touching and your knees and heels apart. Rest your pelvis down into the gap between your heels. Walk your hands forward whilst keeping your tail bone pushed down onto your heels. Pull your abdomen in as you do this. You will create more room and be able to move further into the pose. Once you have your hands out fully in front of you rest your forehead on the floor, keep your stomach pulled in. Feel the extension through your spine, from the tail bone to your neck. Keep the hands extended and breath into the posture. Notice how the breath is taken naturally into the back. This is releasing.

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It is worth baring in mind that there are many forms of yoga and each one brings with it, it's own unique journey and benefits so if you don't fancy rolling around on the floor, why not try a chair yoga session or a meditation class.

Have you ever thought about Karma yoga? This is where you practice your daily tasks and work, from a place of devotion to and gratitude for that given task or job...now there is a challenge!

Please don't give up yoga if you have had experiences in the past that may have put you off. Finding the right teacher for you is crucial to your enjoyment of yoga. There are lots of styles of yoga out there and lots of different ways of teaching them. So look for a teacher who practices regularly themselves, continues to study and is sympathetic to the students they have in front of them.
Now back to the benefits!

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In this issue, you will find...

* information regarding the timetable of classes over the Christmas period.

* A story I wish to share with you because sometimes, Christmas can feel like 'just something else I have to worry about’. If the last sentence resonates with you, please do read on!

This is important to me because I know of so many people who are holding a lot up this year. I will be giving away 2 complementary treatments at the end of this blog!

What is spiritual housekeeping?

We are all fundamentally energy in motion, everything is energy in motion. The frequency of the motion, determines the way an object appears. Think of an electric toothbrush, when it’s stationary, you can see the individual bristles but when it’s oscillating at a higher rate, you can’t see the individual bristles.

As a result of this, we each hold an individual energy field. Through the law of entrainment, a stronger energy field can influence the frequency of a less powerful energy field.

When you walk into a room, you may often be able to sense the frequency of the room, we often interpret this as a pleasant feeling or an uncomfortable feeling. Sometimes we just feel like we don’t belong.

This is you intuitively sensing the energy of the room and recognising that it is influencing your energy field.

With that in mind, it’s important to remember that you are the guardian of your own energy, so if something or someone brings your frequency

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Getting weaker as you age is not something you have to settle for!

Struggling to get up from the floor, out of bed or up from the chair is no fun and it can be rectified with some practice.

As some of you may know, I am not just a Yoga Teacher, but a registered Yoga Therapists too.

In yoga therapy we look at the person as a whole, and look at the causes, rather than the symptoms of any problem. This includes, lifestyle, mental focus, emotional needs, and also the spiritual needs we all have but may not always address. A lot of the time, life is running away with us, and so too is our strength and our focus!

During one of my consultations, I was delving into the benefits of keeping the muscles of the body strong using yoga poses.

The spine is self supporting but it can become weaker as we age; the muscles around it may