Let me introduce you to my corner of the West Norfolk Coast located on a bay called The Wash. It’s a 20-minute walk to the village’s two beaches from MindSteadyGo’s...
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A self-led DIY wellness retreat is a restful, reflective, restorative experience … but how on earth do you organise a retreat without someone to guide you? This is the idea...
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Chipotle Bean and Root Vegetable Chilli made in the slow cooker Vegetarian, vegan & gluten free *Serves 4 to 6 people Ingredients: 2 tins of tomatoes 2 tins...
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Bridge Rooth - MindSteadyGo Founder Everyone has questions before booking a yoga retreat. Especially if you are about to sign up for your first yoga retreat. Here are the...
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Mindful cooking - before even considering bringing mindfulness into the kitchen, let’s just make sure we all understand what the concept means. I love this explanation of ‘mindfulness’ written by...
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In this post, I want to focus on how to use writing to release stress and anxiety. I explore the role that writing plays in supporting our mental health by...
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Table of contents What is the belly? How is the belly involved in breathing? If you’re not belly breathing – where or how do you breathe? Why should you belly-breathe?...
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Bridget Rooth talks to a range of other professionals - from voice and presentation coaches to her previous business coach, as well as presenters on BBC Radio Norfolk. Interview on...
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How can stress management quotes help you understand stress? Reminders & reassurance: We need to be constantly reminded that our stress response is evolutionarily coded into our nervous system...
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‘Stress resilience’ refers to your natural ability to bounce back from stress or anxiety. One of the issues around stress is that we tend to berate it, we stress about...
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Earth Salutations are grounding, meditative and calming. The perfect sequence at the end of a busy day when you want to reconnect to self and enjoy a quieter practice. I...
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Why does outdoor yoga support wellbeing? There are four major reasons to take your yoga practice outdoors: Bringing playfulness and lightness into your yoga practice Broadening your perspective and improving...
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When I was 50, my last child of three set off for university and I wrapped up my 12-year business life in Beijing. I too set off. I downsized my...
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This article originally appeared on Maddyness UK Fact #1 - Reversing poor breathing habits can ease body pain If you suffer from shoulder, neck pain or headaches, there is...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘practice’ these past few months. Perhaps the new year period put me in a reflective mood as I looked ahead to what I want...
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Originally published on Maddyness UK Do! Do! Do! What have you been doing? In our business culture, we are feted for our doings. Proclaiming them makes us feel validated...
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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...
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"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...
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Originally published on Maddyness UK Have you ever driven or walked somewhere only to realise you can’t remember a single part of the journey? Or driven or cycled to...
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“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...
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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...
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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 –...
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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...
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An innovation to mindfulness programs is to introduce the ‘body door’ when the ‘mind door’ has been shut. This is a more comprehensive approach to health and wellbeing and much more effective.
Mindfulness is one of those words that, even after you’ve looked it up in the dictionary, you still require further research to fully grasp its meaning.
Article originally published on the Huffington Post in January 2018
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Soon after becoming CEO, Bertolini began Aetna’s mindfulness-based wellness programs with a study. He says, “We measured heart rate variability to establish stress levels for approximately 250 employees.
The recent debacle of United Airlines dragging a passenger off their plane is a dramatic demonstration of a company without an integrated corporate wellness program.
