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A tell-tale sign the world needs a soothing hug right now is because of these multiple micro-aggressions. For Ukraine and Russia that translates as war, not exactly micro. For the rest of the globe a multitude of pointless distracting 'fuzz'. Excuse the expression...hm, I'll try another: fluff, dust bunnies, wind, hot air, bla-bla-bla, idle talk.  Sometimes you must put the hate away, get away from it and that sometimes means migration. Having to migrate because of 'dust bunnies'?!! Look it up it's a term, to describe what I'm not doing a great job of describing: that hate causes wars, full stop.  Qui n'avance pas, recule.  What are the cre***ns doing over in Welly, in NZ at the moment, too? I went to my Diversity & Inclusion board meeting last night. What a sheer joyous rejuvenating thing to do: to listen, to share ideas on the things that can be discussed. Thank you Louis Theroux for publishing documentaries to reveal parallel cultures outdated, ou...

Have you been dreaming lately of taking up a new hobby? Like scubba-diving or clay-firing or just letting go of your fears in all their forms. Well I could be unsustainable erganomically and tell you : go to New Zealand immediately and enjoy this lil' slice of Paradise. Or you could switch on, tune out and do a bit of mindfullness meditation. Delightlyfully illuminating 🧘🏼‍♀️🎭🧘🏼‍♀️ Like this pic. posted for your viewing pleasure here. My saving-the-world big brother, likes to freedive in his free time. When practising he looks like a fish with silver-gills and aqua-anatomy, and describing his breathing method's challenges most science out there. #StaySafe #COVID-19 #HolidaysOfTheMind #YogaMusic

As the pics. come in thick and fast on my social medias today. From friends, from family over in Australia and New Zealand I think about this Yoga Blog and how on earth it can reflect such mayhem. It can't sorry, there are thankfully limits to any vocation, any hobby, any sports. So...or SOS... as we say in Kiwiland (pun intended, can't get the image out of my head, of all that wildlife decimated) I've posted a captured creature on my windowpain for you, instead. This little Bee is warming itself from the rainy weather Australia desperately needs right now. Try Bhramari Pranayama as part of your relaxation segment in your yoga classes this week. It's such a nice, gentle buzzy feeling. It's most obvious effects are that it's excellent for bringing up the mood, warming the vocal chords, making your friends laugh and clearing the senses. It's claimed also to : Dissipate anger, Lower Blood Pressure, Bolster the health of the throat, Strengthen and impro...

Here on a short break away from the bustle of London City. I've walked the coastal track with lungs filling just for the music. Not focused or even interested in British politics at the moment, I don't know if the city's laws around sustainability and pollution are being monitored that well. But I'm not taking my chances with it all.  Having sung recently at the Southbank Centre for my beloved new choir the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, wow, just wow. What a piece of music that is. I'd like to discuss here in the Yoga Blog today the use of the word 'Curation'. Everybody is using it, willy-nilly, as if the most simple of task should even provoke this kind of meaning : "Hold on while I gather my tea aromas to bedazzle and beguile while putting together a marketing shoot for promo". What a lot of tosh there is in the world of advertising, please don't misuse this word curation though, it squibbles my hearing senses! haha! Thankfully in the Y...

Today's Blog I was going to give you a comparison between Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga and a new book I was given by my friend ; The Four Agreements - A Toltec Wisdom Book. But then I'd have to write a whole essay and well, Blogs aren't supposed to read like that. I'm often amazed at other people's ability to absorb and take in these moral codes of behaviour - I wish I had that talent. Possibly the fact that performing and singing means one is likely plucking from these depths to recreate some composer or artists masterpiece... I don't know. I'll leave it with Zel, I mean Zen... for now 😂Zel's a genius Luther who fixes guitars. Thanks to everyone around the world yesterday who protested Climate Change - it's awful to think that young people today think their futures are being taken away from them. We must collectively fight and make a change to this situation. Shout out to friends at  Julie's Bicycle  helping to green the Arts ...

And once again I've deservedly been brought back down to earth here in Rhodes town, by local conversation. Of course there is concern about Eco-tourism (or lack of) and there are people working towards solutions Ms Morrell!  I guess the problem once again all boils down to numbers, the sheer amount of people in Europe taking holidays is the issue. So I ask you wouldn't you rather contribute to a places natural beauty and antiquity rather than this oblique manner of existence? Don't you want to be absorbed in travel, for the experience to move ones whole being, change focus, change brain waves, make you feel alive? Ahem! One day I'll be truthful about times & dates (but for now I'm happy in my Yogic youth giving properties). Back to the late 60s & early 70s here in Crete, where my mumma lived and taught. She has amazing pictures of what I imagined I'd see here in Greece. And I did, to certain extent.... if I ignored the fat 'sun-red' punt...

Catching a couple of hours respite in a local Rhodes Town Cafe I am struck by my surroundings. So I did it! Before a hectic remainder of the Choirs busy years concert schedule I've taken a spontaneous holiday in Greece. Something has slipped. From the Kim Wilde 'You Just Keep Me Hanging on' playing overhead to the 36 degrees and 99% humidity. My lil' artistic brain is overheating, plus I don't feel like being exported back into polka dots and 80s bubble skirts, today. Efcharistò. Stray animals have taken over; there's a multitude of the furry beings, kittens, cats and mangy looking dogs. Locals have concocted bizarre looking contraptions to try and deal with the 'poo' problem in pot plants. Plastic mesh and spiky wooden things, sticks sticking up out of the soil. None of it seems to be working to deter the detritus. Freshly laid feces for your touristic pleasure. I wouldn't normally pull focus to these things, because 'tourism is as tou...

So here I am, like a child about to dive into their first ice cream of the summer; waiting in anticipation of a great new adventure... that's right, I'm off to Rhodes Island, Greece. My momma taught English and History here in the early 70's. In her Dusty Springfield Joan Baez phase... protesting the Vietnam war, falling in love with a local boy and then getting kicked out of the country for standing by what she believed in. So I have lots of imaginary 'baggage' to lug over with me. I'm fictionally not travelling light. Practically I am though, with sustainable travel kit and the intention to explore intrepidly, zoot...I'm off. Au revoir, ciao London is black hole at times, a succubus of souls. Yoga on clean sand and salt in my hair; here I come! 

Sitting in a London cafe today. It's so pleasant to interrupt a thought bubble with chit-chat and today a girl and I (she had an article to write on Foucault) exploded into discussions of monstrous-feminine, gender fluidity and actual peels of laughter. So I encourage you all whatever gender, whatever creed, colour, culture you identify with to enjoy your day.... and why not, while you're all sitting there blogging away, texting away, posting away .....open up and talk to the person next to you once in a while. You might find you have more in common than you think. 

Well who would have thought it. The sea is crystal clear, the sun shining in the sky, nature is present in all it's glory; Cornwall. Here's picture of  Polperro harbour Cornwall, England. Why not splash out this year and take that Yoga Retreat in your own country? And a top tip if you are looking for a good one, I've included a link below. And if you're new to Yoga then look for a classically qualified yoga instructor in Iyengar, Hatha or Ashtanga forms of Yoga. This is reliable instruction that doesn't take place over a weekend or a quick 3 week course! Happy Holidays 🌸🧘🏼‍♀️🌸 ==>ClickHere<== 

In this month of celebrating Pride do we question our motives for fitness. Transformation is available to everyone and everybody. It shouldn't be exclusive or expensive... That's why doing Yoga is awsome. It's accessible and is based in philosophy that runs deep over 2500 years of it. So to this month of celebrating diversity. Enjoy your yoga. SingingTreeYoga is striving to address the challenges of diversity to be really inclusive. Because we want our local business to contribute to the society it exists in, a question that big corporates discuss in a rhetoric that doesn't actually reach the people. Reading people's job title's illuminates this for me: 'Independent People & Culture Transformation Consultant .... Director of People Strategy & Transformation' 🙄Hahaha! "The foot feels the foot, when it feels the ground"                                           ...

Today I'm answering a question I often get asked by my students. Does Yoga keep you fit? The simple answer is 'yes', if practised with a good range of motion and plenty of inversions; Yoga increases the bodies fitness levels. If you don't believe it, then there are now plenty of scientific studies online to back this theory up. I know as a singer it helps maintain optimal vocal fitness and also helps me to beat the effects of air pollution by working out my lungs with pranayama. "Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. "                                                                    Buddha

A beautiful cultural Sea front city. With Chat Shops and Eco beauty parlours galore. What's not to like? You could visit any number of Arts hubs where traditional screen printing and ancient 'silk-rd' interested people will find it a treasure trove too. If you sign up to my blog here you'll recieve plenty of top tips on Yoga travel, too. Happy Summer Holidays search 🏖🧘🏼‍♀️🏖 Try some Yoga today, with practising Halasana this week a perfect restorative asana - In Iyengar it's an inverted asana that if repeated and held can restore each body's cycle for the day. "If you truly loved yourself you could never hurt another"                                                                       Buddha

So a few more wins this last week here @SingingTreeYoga. As the start of the Summer Yoga classes one of my clients told me she'd found my yoga very helpful with her knee surgery recovery. She's gone and booked a holiday with a yoga retreat 🧘🏼‍♀️Yay! 😁 And is intending to move to a closer area of the city to be with her daughter and spend more time relaxing and revitalising her life. I love these things, people making positive changes for the better. So goodluck and onwards with your Summer Yoga course and classes. "Reading is the mind what exercise is to the body"                                                                   Joseph Addison

Are you feeling depressed at all by the way this rubbish brexit thing just drags on and on? Does the sheer embarrassment of politics and personality media take you away from what's actually important in your life. Even if you live outside of Britain it's pretty tricky to avoid. Don't worry you're really not alone. It's tempting me as a Yogi to write about it, so there's the evidence. Don't worry you're not alone - you, do not have to feel burdened by something utterly ridiculous and out of your control. Doing some Yoga can provide you with ways to liberate the mind, body and soul. At any time yoga is brilliant fun, relaxing and rejuvenating. So yes! It's a Sunday, why procrastinate any longer while the political world acts (rather badly) at being over privileged and boring start a Yoga practise at home, at work and begin making your weekend stretching full of life. *And...SingingTreeYoga is giving a Easter Yoga taster event for Childre...

If you are having trouble balancing your energies at the moment then try a restorative Yoga class. Restorative Yoga combined with rejuvanating and healing herbal teas is a great way to celebrate the Spring and Easter season. And an alternative to being swamped by the dreaded chocolate performance. Well the collective research is getting done on the subjects of unnessesary sugers hidden in our food. Here's a nice post from one of my favourite websites:  EZineArticles You can learn about a few you didn't know about before, such as low fat Yoghurt - better to stay with whole, full fat Yoghurt (and made by Anglonubian goats ;) Haha! Lovely greek Yoghurt with a sprinkling of your favourite oats. Spring Is Natures Way Of Saying 'Let's Party'                                                          Robin Williams

Happy New Year Yogis. This year I will try to write more teaching into the blog starting with the basics and then moving deeper as you all practise your Yoga at various studios, ashrams and retreats. Let's start today January 2019 with a light, bright view of things. That the world can be a better place and help those who haven't discovered what a bit of stretching can do, to find that joy. So good luck out there: Happy stretching be it children's Yoga, adults Yoga, senior Yoga, Yoga for sports, Yoga retreats, Yoga to stay fit, Yoga to socialise, Yoga to tune-in, Yoga to qualify, Yoga to explore, Yoga to counteract pain. There's a Yoga class for everyone. 'Give this world good energy' 

Merry Stretch-making and all things Yogic this Christmas. I've arrived mid jet lag in the Southern Hemisphere...all the stars have changed and the water runs round the plug in a different direction. However Yoga is still fun and this week in the lead up to tomorrow's big day I've gone to my original ashram with my brother to do Yoga together. Love it! Happy and safe holidays ☺️🧘🏼‍♀️🌺 "Happiness will never come to  those who fail to appreciate what they already have."                                                                                                                                        Buddha

Often fixing a problem that you have is just about getting started. Have you started doing Yoga? Is it easing that sore back or those tight ham strings. Is it starting to make you feel less stressed? With less stress we automatically feel happier. I'm going to suggest that it has. So what's stopping you, if you haven't started?!! Just fill in my Opt-In page and start receiving free Yoga classes and sequences that I've designed to be enjoyable and easy to get started with Yoga. Sign up - for free and start easing that back pain, getting fit and slimmer and email me your results and any problems you are having. I'd like to help you 🧘🏼‍♀️☺️🌸

Did you manage to do your own 10-15minutes yoga and stretching this week? Good work! Well done! Yoga can really be the backbone to a full career in whatever it is you are most passionate about, whatever you love the most. Here at Yoga is where you can explore the change in your lifestyle, the flux that people go through these days in between jobs, changing career paths and let's face it today's stresses and strains require that we stay so very flexible. So I give you permission to step back in time, tell the boss you quit or whatever and... as they used to say on the 60's Morocco hippie trail, after the beatniks, the 'overland', go find yourself!  My fault,  my failure, is not the passions I have but in my lack of control of them.                                                                   ...