Yoga offers physical and mental health benefits for people of all ages. Regardless of your level of yoga expertise, if you’re attending yoga regularly, you can feel better from head to toe, inside and out. Here are 9 reasons why you need to ‘downward dog’ everyday! 1. Yoga ‘Asana’ improve strength, balance and flexibility. ‘Asana’Continue reading “7 health benefits of regular yoga”
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Go Local
Why not support your local village hall? You never know, besides saving petrol you may make some new friends. Either way you will be keeping our village halls open as a useful and convenient venue to enrich the lives of old and young in your area. In South Luffenham there are coffee mornings “Fika Saturdays”Continue reading “Go Local”
Autumn Leaves Relaxation Audio
This is a lovely, gentle relaxation that helps us to accept change and develop a positive attitude to letting things go. These may be possessions, relationships or behavioral patterns – anything really that makes us unhappy or stressed. Sometimes if we stop ‘holding’ onto things so much they actually respond and change to develop intoContinue reading “Autumn Leaves Relaxation Audio”
Tone Your Upper Arms
Here’s a few exercises to help you tone the upper arms. I’m afraid if we don’t do some exercises to help the upper arms they will end up rather flabby and drop down in the classic ‘Bingo-Wings’ style. Don’t let this happen, and if they are a litlle bit droopy, turn things around with thisContinue reading “Tone Your Upper Arms”
Yoga to Tone the Thighs
If you find that your thighs are a bit ‘jangly’ and wobbly, why not do a couple of yoga postures to help strengthen and tone them up? This is a very short practice using 2 yoga poses. Take care of your joints – ankles, knees and hips – don’t over work them or push intoContinue reading “Yoga to Tone the Thighs”
Sour, Doughy, Raw and Numb
This beautiful poem is taken from ‘A year with Rumi’. If we are not together in the heart, What’s the point? When body and soul are not dancing, there is no pleasure in colourful clothing. Why have cooking pans if there is no food in the house? In this world full of fresh bread, amber,Continue reading “Sour, Doughy, Raw and Numb”
Foundation Stones
This term we have been reflecting in class ‘what is underneath us’. Learning to accept ourselves for who we are and forgive and love all our little foibles goes a long way to enable our enjoyment of life and to see the good in all those around us too. This poem is a lovely bringingContinue reading “Foundation Stones”
The Jar of Life
A professor stood before his philosophy class with a few items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large, empty jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then pickedContinue reading “The Jar of Life”
In Control or Out of Control?
Do you get anxious or angry when things don’t go just as you want them to? Do you feel you have to take charge of ‘everything’ or nothing would get done? Feelings such as these really do cloud our enjoyment of life. They are often termed as ‘control issues’. Sometimes the simplest things make youContinue reading “In Control or Out of Control?”
Finding Our Purpose in Life
I recently read a compelling tale about Alfred Nobel – he of the Nobel Peace Prize. The story touched me so much that I can’t seem to get it out of my mind. The story goes (and I can’t say how much of it is absolutely true) that Alfred Nobel was born in poverty butContinue reading “Finding Our Purpose in Life”
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