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Posts from the ‘yoga body’ Category

Feb 4 11

My last ever Chocolate Croissant

by Tom

It pains me to write this post but it needs to be said. Yesterday morning, I ate my last ever chocolate croissant and it was fantastic. The one thing that keeps me going as I dash off to work early on Thursday mornings to make my 7:30 class is knowing that I have just enough [...]

Jan 17 11

Balance through Breathing

by Tom

I remember my friend Kirsty saying how she found the alternate nostril breathing exercises that she did at the start of her yoga class in Nagoya to be very beneficial – they provided her with a great sense of emotional balance. One my new year’s resolutions for the Year of the Rabbit was to start [...]

Nov 17 10

Do you want to be a yoga teacher?

by Tom

A number of people have asked me if I want to be a yoga teacher. This has absolutely nothing to do with any innate talent on the yoga front, just that people know that I’m a teacher and I like yoga so they put two and two together and think wouldn’t it be a good [...]

Nov 12 10

Fun and yoga

by Tom

Why does yoga take itself so seriously? Is it because it embodies a spiritual tradition? Is it because teachers have put in many hundreds of hours or training and practice? Is it because students pay so much money to attend class? Is it because I’m in Japan and people do [I was going to say [...]

Nov 9 10

Yoga for friends

by Tom

The weekend before last I went to two Yin Yoga workshops with Jacqueline Hargreaves. The theme was Tranquility Within and I certainly was in a totally different place by the end of each of the classes. In the workshop notes, Jacqueline explains how cultivating tranquility also “fosters healthy relationships” because a regular Yin Yoga practice [...]

Oct 9 10

Strong to the finich

by Tom

I was chatting to a friend last weekend who I hadn’t seen in yoga class for a few months and she asked me if I’d be coming to yoga recently. I said that I’d taken most of the summer off from going to classes because it was just too hot (there are no showers in [...]

Sep 30 10

The window to the soul

by Tom

The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asana. ~ book: Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar The eyes can tell you a lot about someone. They can tell you what they are thinking, what kind of mood somebody is in or what kind of person somebody is. They can also tell [...]

Sep 22 10

My new yoga pole

by Tom

As I was saying, it was my birthday not so long ago and one of the coolest presents I got was something that they call an エクササイスポール exercise pole in Japan. I like to call it my ‘yoga pole’ although I did a search for yoga pole on Amazon.com and came up with all sorts [...]

Sep 4 10

Under the Bridge

by Tom

When I was leaving class last weekend, the teacher Jung said to me, “You don’t feel comfortable in poses where you have to open out your chest, do you?” She’s right and she’s not the only person in my life to suggest that I have problems with opening up Well, I’m working on it but [...]

Aug 2 10

Upside down in Sand

by Tom

Summer’s here and the beach is beckoning. I’ve been slowly working on handstand against a wall fall the last few months and August seems like the perfect time to go for the unsupported version – in the sand of course so the thought of the inevitable tumbles won’t be so off-putting. Last year I set [...]