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I have been away - Spain walking the Camino Primitivo, a week in Portugal then barging in France on the Canal du Midi. Here are some holiday reflections and random thoughts that happen when you walk 323km then spend time on a slow boat travelling a verdant canal: 🌿 Walking is therapy. Walking in nature without talking for big chunks of time is like fast tracking that therapy. Having the capacity to have a thought, hold that thought and follow it to its conclusion was a revel

I am learning that the most important thing I can do in the studio is not to offer more nuanced instructions or suggest more props –...

I am loving the sensible shoe movement, the shift away from heels. The comfortable pants movement, the inclusion of a bit of elastic at...

My darling girl has moved out. It feels different to when my darling boy moved out—he moved to a different state, in with his dad, from...

Maple, our lovely Vizsla, had some surgery to remove a tumour from the base of her tail a few days ago. We thought she would lose her...

Puffas and ugg boots and all of the jumpers! Doing yoga in sneakers or boots is perfectly acceptable Morning mist is a balm for the soul...

My mum sent me this poem by Rose Milligan called Dust If You Must: Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better to paint a picture, or...

*A good friend, a lovely man, died recently, and these are some thoughts I had on loss and grief, and how hard it must be for his wife...

I hear them before I see them. The Friday yogis are winding their way up the garden path. I smile and think 'I'm glad I meditated' and...

I have started telling more people that I love them. Not random strangers - although, who knows? I put no boundaries on my capacity for...

I find it so easy to be generous and loving to those around me. I see beauty in all of you. Considering that I look at women's bodies...

And so another chapter begins. We roll from the festive season into life ... and loss, and misunderstanding; joyful moments and moments...

Me, on the Routeburn Track NZ, once again humbled by nature There is something about putting one foot in front of the other that gives me...

And so here we are, nearly at the end of another year together. How grateful I am to all the beautiful women who turn up, week after...

I reached level 53 this week. It feels like a bit of an in-between kind of age. I had an amazing party for my 50th. I know that every...

I was sitting in the garden eating my toast this morning, admiring the lemon-scented gum nearby that is a nightmare for my pool but...

What are your values? I listened to an excellent episode of The Imperfects podcast last week, which explored values and how important...

This is the thing about yoga. Whilst the physical practice does a pretty good job of keeping me mobile and comfortable in my skin, it is...

The long weekend was lush with time. I had planned to do quite a few things, but they went out the window as the clouds rolled in and the...

Is there anything better for the soul than a group of women getting together and laughing and sharing and relaxing? Magic happens when we...

As a mother, there are many things I get wrong. It goes with the turf. I tried my hardest in the early days, and I can see now, with...

I have said to quite a few of you that you are advanced yoga practitioners. You laughed and said something like 'I can't even touch my...

Most of my studio classes are quiet, the trilling of birds and whispering of leaves the only sounds beyond each deep breath. There is a...

Loss touches us all. My aunt recently passed after an intense and painful year with cancer. She was my Mum's only sister, a couple of...