Author Archives: caroline

More and more people these days seem to suffer from insomnia, either having problems getting to sleep or finding it hard to stay asleep and waking up in the small hours, mind racing and feeling anxious.  Millions of people consult … Continue reading →

Today, Western yoga culture has a reputation as a female-dominated practice. It may be a little different in London, but here in Suffolk yoga classes are likely to be attended mainly by women, with men in the minority. This is a … Continue reading →

I was recently talking to someone who had sadly given up yoga because he felt that the classes he had been attending had made an existing  back condition worse.  This particular person, who fortunately had not been attending local classes, … Continue reading →

Yesterday the sun was shining, heralding a lovely Autumn day and, thinking it was possibly the last day of sunshine before the cold, grey weather sets in, I went up to Sutton Hoo with my husband to get some fresh … Continue reading →

Last week I started a Mindfulness course with Bemindfulonline.com. The first week was entitled’Stepping out of autopilot’ and the aim is to learn to stay with our experience moment by moment. At the start of the course it was pointed … Continue reading →

We talk about life being a ‘balancing act’ and tend to recognise the importance of having ‘balance’ in our lives-  for example the right mixture of work, home life and time to ourselves.

  Sometimes we feel as if we are racing through life than actually living it. I was reminded of this last week when I felt I had a lot of things piling up, both domestically and work- related, all  demanding … Continue reading →

  What makes us feel stressed?… Lots of things according to a recent survey, including deciding what to eat for lunch, our phone battery running out and overcrowded gyms.  These  apparently are among the worries that add up to over … Continue reading →

  In a recent newspaper article, I was reading that stress can  affect us in different ways including making us feel ‘wired’, short of patience and irritable, particularly if we are subjecting our nervous systems to constant stimulation from sounds, … Continue reading →

Yoga is commonly known as good for combating stress.  One of the reasons is that there is a  strong relaxation element in there and most yoga classes end with a ‘relaxation’ where people have time to lie on the mat … Continue reading →