Ipswich Yoga Class Caroline Glason

People start yoga for lots of different reasons, including wanting help with a specific need – improving posture, reducing stress,  developing flexibility and so on- and  very often they find yoga really helps and, as a result, become yoga devotees.

Many people turn to yoga as a way of improving their lower back. Often they find yoga invaluable and stick with it as they find their back is much improved, but sometimes people sadly give up on yoga  because they think it makes their back pain worse. Continue reading →

One of the differences between Yoga and other forms of exercise which people often mention is the fact that Yoga is non competitive.  It is commonly described as being ‘process oriented’ as opposed to goal focussed and, as a result, our awareness is more internal and less external.

That’s quite different to many aspects of life where we are constantly noticing what other people are doing and tend to compare ourselves to others. Continue reading →

I was interested to read in a newspaper article recently that a new law against “distracted walking” was being considered in New Jersey USA, which could mean that a pedestrian using a mobile phone can be fined and even jailed.

Apparently experts suggest that an increasingly high number of deaths are caused by pedestrians barely noticing where they are going, usually because they’re texting and therefore walking into traffic.

I called that article to mind when I attended a yoga training day recently about how weight bearing postures can help maintain bone density. It was part of a programme called  Continue reading →