I’m always talking about how important it is to look after yourself; how often you should get a massage, how important stretching and releasing is (whether you’re a runner or not) and how sitting on our butts too much can give us low back pain. And when you’re a therapist yourself, in some ways...
Read more →I planted this tub of tulip bulbs on a freezing cold Saturday morning last November. Little did I know then that we were on the brink of one of the longest, harshest winters the UK has ever known. It was still snowing in early April when the first buds of the tulips showed their...
Read more →Tadasana: Mountain Pose: joining heaven and earth Long before I ever taught yoga a friend of my mother’s, a yoga teacher herself, told me that the reason she practised was not to learn to stand on her head (even though she was adept!) but to learn to stand on her own two feet. This...
Read more →One of the best things that came out of all my Pilates teacher training was the use of small equipment – stretchy bands, balls of varying sizes (some of which are great for releasing tight butt muscles) and the foam roller. The way I trained to teach yoga we don’t use a lot of...
Read more →(source) Gluteus medius is one of the three gluteus muscles (or butt muscles) and plays a part in internal and external rotation of the thigh bone as well as abducting (moving away from the midline) of the leg. Gluteus medius also gets really tight. It gets tight from running, walking, cycling and sitting on...
Read more →And suddenly it was April. I never used to believe my mum when she told me how time speeds up as you get older. Remember how the six-week summer holidays seemed to last forever as a kid? And now three months pass in the blink of an eye. After opening the studio, most of...
Read more →I am a self-confessed planner and list-maker. My weeks are set out by what I have to do and how and when to do them. I even schedule in free time, reading time, writing time. And often I don’t stick to them. And they become a stick to beat myself with. And I still...
Read more →We are in the middle of a neverending winter (est. 2011) My shoulder hurts. My hands hurt. Everything bloody hurts. It’s impossible to keep the wheatbag on my shoulder and type at the same time. Opening the studio wiped out my savings and now I feel like I’m starting from scratch again. I never...
Read more →“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.” –Stephen King I was always bursting to read and write. Mum tried to stop me reading too soon, worried I’d be bored at school if I could already read before I got there, trying to distract me...
Read more →Just the other day a client said to me “I always used to think of massage as a luxury, but now I realise how important it is to my day to day wellbeing”. Yes, massage is not a luxury, and I’ve waxed lyrical about that before. Spas are a luxury, fluffy robes and...
Read more →Considering all our adventures there are remarkably few pictures of us together. He is always the other side of the lens of course. But here is what I have, a memento to the last seven years. Here’s to the next seven.
Read more →Spring is in the air. When I look out of my window at 5pm it’s still light, the daffodils are almost out and the garden is full of greedy birds, lining their nests and getting ready to lay their eggs. By the end of this month the clocks will go forward an hour and...
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