One of the recurring themes I hear from guests on my Finding Space retreat is that they don’t have time to make changes in their everyday lives! And that’s the challenge facing most...
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Do you have a place of contemplation you visit regularly? Unlike brainstorming which is an active practice, with a specific goal and often the sharing of brains, contemplation is a solitary practice...
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So, tell me, do you sometimes wish you could step off the treadmill of your thinking mind? Do you ever wish you could switch off the inner chatter? I do....
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This is a story about stones. One gratitude stone starts the tale. I gathered it from a Norfolk beach the day I ran away from London in March 2020. London locked down and I fled in a van. Although I drove the van forwards, I could see no way of moving forward in my life. I was driving away from…
“Focussed, sharp, clear thinking, creative.” What am I describing? A successful entrepreneur? Correct – also the benefits of a well oxygenated brain. Your most complex organ, the powerhouse of your nervous system, the brain consumes 20% of the body’s oxygen supply. Limit that supply and life quickly becomes unfocussed and foggy. Does that describe how you have been feeling during…
Finding Freedom Yoga Retreat This yoga retreat falls the week of the Summer Solstice and the UK’s lifting of lockdown so it’s all about ‘Finding Summer Freedom’ on the beautiful west Norfolk coast. Breath Coach & Yoga Teacher Bridget Rooth hosts her guests in a pair of neighbouring cottages with yoga sessions held in the garden and at the beach….
“What do you do?” people ask. “Put simply, I teach people to breathe better and stress less,” comes my reply. “Oh!” go the sceptics confidently, “Surely we all know how to breathe!” My challenge when I deliver a breathing workshop is that the room is mostly full of sceptics. This is sometimes verbally shared with me as attendees enter the…
Exercise for the desk-bound on National Fitness Day National Fitness Day today in the UK. People are joining in fitness activities all over the country. And you are? ………. Sitting at your desk! Want to take part in the day and contribute to your fitness? I’ve got your desk-bound body covered. Lungs. You can exercise your lungs. Here are three…
A Salute to the Sun The Sun Salutation is a sequence of yoga poses, generally practised in rounds of twelve, that is just what it says it is – a salute to the sun, a way of showing gratitude to our planet’s burning orb. It does not appear in the traditional Tibetan or Indian yogic writings; it is thought…
Silencing your inner critic How polished and wily are our inner critics? They are the public speakers we all wish we could be. Confident, charismatic, convincing. Their audience sits there in stunned silence – not a heckler in hearing. There’s no Q&A. There’s no discussion. They are never booed off the stage. Even though we’ve heard their opinion before, we…
