RECLAIM: Yoga Series

This was a weirdly vulnerable blog to write. I’ve been teaching for 3 years now, and I qualified as a 500hr RYT almost three years to the day after teaching my very first class. Over these three years I’ve completed hundreds upon hundreds of hours of teaching, in private sessions, class settings, teaching courses, supporting non profits, and offering talks - a richer, deeper business than I could have imagined when I started my initial training.  I’m a completely different te

These are 5 questions that can be helpful when checking in with yourself; you can think of them as a step by step of 'how to feel your feelings'. (It's important to note: there are many ways to do this, some of them detailed in my blog, some not. This is just ONE way you might choose to engage with your inner world). These questions are slight variations on the 5 Guiding Questions that were developed and taught to me by Nkem Ndefo as part of The Resilience Toolkit , designed

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