SingingTreeYoga

It's interesting medical times here in the U.K. With programmes on TV exploring the breakthrough medical treatment of diabetes and fat fighting, the speed with which these findings are revealed at the moment is a little overwhelming. But brilliantly progressive too. For someone who has battled, in my 20s, Endometriosis and won, I can't help but think that a little more time and effort spent with women's health specifically, on the TV would be helpful. However we all have hormones and balancing the endocrine system and  consequentially the hormones can be difficult for both men and women. Regular Yoga has shown to have brilliant benefits. Because it's pretty difficult to overwork doing Yoga. You can get in touch with aches and pains, tightness and fitness levels - then work on a routine that works for you, not the other way around. I'd also (on this centenary day of the Vote for Women) like to put in a word for the common Yam. Not so common it's varietie...

For me yoga expresses the process of the classical artist. Hours spent crafting your skill, as an Opera Soprano, singing requires extreme amounts of concentration. Masking emotions to reach the ultimate goal: fluid noise, singing, melody, notes hanging in the air. For years Yoga is that prop to the physical and often mental stress and strain that I put my throat, neck, torso, diaphragm under. As a soprano who sings good solid notes above a top C to smooth out the passaggio I have had to learn to stretch and move areas like the hard pallet - in the mouth. You try that for a second. Now you think it's not moving, now imagine and sing maintaining that position. This is the art of classical music, a lot of faith! Because you can't hear it internally; it doesn't mean that the sound is not changing and being shaped externally. And so Yoga, helps with this physical leap of faith. I'd love to chat with Ballet dancers to share comparisons, I'm sure there would be lo...