Improve your balance with yoga. There are three comments I am used to hearing when I say “I’m a yoga teacher.” I can’t touch my toes. I’m not good at balance. I’m afraid to fart in class! The good news is touching your toes is not a prerequisite to yoga. We are always working onContinue reading “Improve your balance”
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Yoga Question and Answer Time
I had a question and answer session with yoga students to answer some of their questions. You can find the video Here, or read on below. I’ve always felt my digestion is a bit slow, can you suggest any exercises that will help with this? The digestion is tricky. And also so interesting! There areContinue reading “Yoga Question and Answer Time”
Yoga on Zoom
All Kellyannyoga classes are now being held via Zoom live online. How does it work? Please register by email to kellyannyoga@gmail.com. You will be sent a registration form. If you can pay, please pay via bank transfer or paypal. Suggested pass prices, or adjust to 80% or pay with karma if you are unwaged. ThenContinue reading “Yoga on Zoom”
Why practice mindfulness?
Why I practice mindfulness? I am not a naturally positive person. I used to focus on the bad, negative, and wrong. I spent so much time worrying, ruminating and loads of time over planning. I would get stuck in a story, a negative thought pattern and let it over run my mind. I was alwaysContinue reading “Why practice mindfulness?”
Why Love Your Core?
I’ve been asked these questions a lot recently, so I thought a little blog post might help summarize. Why have you called these yoga workshops ‘love your core’? Well, it just happened that the first one fell on the 14th of February, but also, there is a strong element of loving and accepting ourselves. ItContinue reading “Why Love Your Core?”
What are you looking forward to in 2020?
A question that has been going through my head the last few days. This year I look forward to sharing more yoga retreats and workshops. Family yoga and family time. Running! And more yoga study. I have booked myself on to some new courses to deepen my knowledge of yin yoga, yoga for the core,Continue reading “What are you looking forward to in 2020?”
Yin Yoga
Yin yoga is like having a massage- it releases the tension, worries and stress from being a mother, it helps reduce the stiffness from running and cycling and it eases the everyday imbalance from work and life. Yin has always been a part of my practice, but since becoming a mother, its been even moreContinue reading “Yin Yoga”
Home Yoga Practice
Home yoga practice can sound scary and daunting– where to start??? but it doesn’t need to be. Start where you feel safe and comfortable and work from there. Start with your favourite pose, start with your favourite breathing practice. Start where you are- you don’t need to be on your mat even, bring it intoContinue reading “Home Yoga Practice”
What is Yoga Nidra?
Yoga nidra is a practice of deep relaxation that has huge potential healing powers for the body and mind. It is not sleep, although you may fall asleep during the practice. Try if you can to maintain a fine thread of awareness, listening to the teacher’s voice and instructions. During yoga nidra you enter aContinue reading “What is Yoga Nidra?”
Healthy cookie recipe
I pretty much never follow a recipe exactly so you will have to play a little to get the consistency of these healthy cookies right for you. This one seems to always need a bit more help sticking, adding more honey- or sometimes a bit of water helps. The good news is this one seemsContinue reading “Healthy cookie recipe”