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Yin Yoga Training - Day 3
28/09/2013 17:42
I am not very good at keeping still and meditative practises are an enigma to me on the whole. As soon as I hear "Make yourself comfortable and prepare for meditation" my mind goes into overdrive as I grab every blanket, bolster, block and cushion in sight and try to find a comfortable position. I...
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Yin Yoga Training - Day 2
27/09/2013 22:40
We arrived in good time for the session today and secured our spot. Isn't it funny how you stake your place and remain anchored to it for the duration of the course. It does of course help Josh to remember our names so we did consider, albeit it briefly, mixing it up a little to confuse him ... but...
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Yin Yoga Teacher Training
27/09/2013 08:02
Yin Yoga has captured my interest since we did a session with the beautiful Nana Sun when in Goa. It is a slow paced yoga style where you hold the poses for several minutes to work deeply into the joints and thereby impact upon the connective tissues improving mobility. As I get older this...
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Aerial Yoga Teacher Training - Day 4
09/09/2013 22:05
Today we were to learn tricks and flips - all of those things that you really don't think you can do but in reality it is more of technique than raw strength.
After watching Devi demonstrate the poses I would think to myself how straight forward it looked but somehow it was much more difficult than...
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Aerial Yoga Teacher Training - Day 3
08/09/2013 08:00
When I finished writing my last update I could barely move my body was so stiff, so I hobbled upstairs and had a really hot soak in the bath and it made a real difference so when I awoke the next morning I felt much much better.
Estelle is my fellow student and owns a Bikram studio in Liverpool and...
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Aerial Yoga Teacher Training - Day 2
05/09/2013 18:46
A few days before I started my course I spoke to Mike about the logistics of it. "You know," I said "you'll have to cook dinner each evening, as I'll be really late and won't have time." The look of shock spread across his face. "What?" I could tell that this was a step too far. So we compromised....
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Aerial Teacher Training
04/09/2013 19:22
I started doing aerial yoga about two years ago and it is an amazing experiance, where hammocks are attached to the ceiling and you use them as a prop to help you stretch your body, get into deeper poses and inversions.
Devi at the Purple Lotus is the primary aerial yoga teacher in the...
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Dublin to Cumbria - Day 3
29/08/2013 21:30
The hotel in Dublin was a great one and we had a fabulous breakfast to fortify us before we headed North in Mike's little green car. Getting out of Dublin was much easier than getting in and before we knew it we were heading North on the motorway and before too long stopped to take the roof down...
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Galway to Dublin - Day 2
28/08/2013 06:59
The streets of Galway were much quieter as we walked down for dinner after my last update and we found a nice Trattoria for dinner and probably one of the best Italian meals we have ever eaten and to my shame as a foodie blogger, I cannot remember the name nor find it on the web - perhaps we had a...
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GALWAY - DAY 1
26/08/2013 17:15
Mike visited Ireland in March/April this year when Andrew and I were in India in order to pass the time. He visited, amongst other places the battle of Augrim, a battle and period of history that I don't know anything about and it was so exciting that he wanted to take me across to visit it. So the...
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