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Introduction I have been teaching my own yoga classes for a year now, and it feels like the right moment to pause and reflect on what that year has taught me—and how it has changed me as both a teacher and a student of yoga. If you’re exploring yoga classes in Ringwood in the New Forest, or just beginning your yoga journey, this reflection might offer a small insight into me and my approach to yoga. Finding My Yoga Community I have practiced yoga for many years, but I never

The autonomic nervous system regulates functions that happen automatically — heart rate, digestion, blood pressure, sweating, and even the size of our pupils. These are not things we can consciously switch on or off in the same way we can decide to move an arm or take a step. What we can do, however, is influence the nervous system indirectly — particularly through breath, movement, and meditation. When we slow and steady the breath, move with awareness, or give the body tim

If you were to envisage yoga as a pie, modern yoga as it is commonly practised in the Western world would see the vast majority of that pie taken up by yoga postures ( āsanas ) and some breathwork ( prāṇāyāma ), with only a tiny sliver devoted to meditation or yoga philosophy. Yet when we look back to the roots of yoga, the earliest descriptions define yoga not as a physical practice, but as the stilling of the mind: Yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ ( Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra , 1.2

This blog explores the key differences between somatic and vinyasa yoga - helping you to chose which one is right for you

Over time — through stress, injury, or repetitive habits — our nervous system learns to keep some muscles slightly switched on all the time. These patterns become automatic, so even when we think we’re relaxed, parts of the body stay tight without us realising it, potentially resulting in pain and discomfort. Because the brain has adapted to this tension, it stops sending and receiving clear sensory messages from those areas. We lose some of our ability to feel and move the