My tail bone is done being tucked, it wants out. My spine is over trying to be straight and wants it’s curves back. My sit bones have had enough of their flesh being pulled out from under them and want their long lost glutes comfortably back underneath them. This one’s for the cues that are…
I am often on the fence about instructing or encouraging students (or myself in my own practice for that matter) to ‘bind’ in postures or not. ‘Binding’ in a Yoga posture is when we wrap our arm or arms around our torso or leg and then clasp on to either our opposite hand or perhaps…
I was wondering the other day how a homeless person would get on if they set themselves up outside a Yoga studio. Would they receive an endless stream of smiles, food, conversation and support. Would they be in on some of that ‘open hearted expansive love for all living beings’ that the teacher is telling…
Some of these Yoga types seem to find self discipline way too easy. Others, like me, do not. Yes, I will put my hand up and say ‘Hi, I’m Hermione and I’m discipline-phobic’. Even the word ‘discipline’ and the idea that I might be restricted by rules or required to do, well, anything at all,…
I recently set about the task of sorting out the mess that is my living space – piles of books, papers and unopened bank statements in one corner, suspicious cups of tea or coffee that have been sitting there longer than I care to remember in the other. Their little ‘Yogi Tea’ tags of wisdom…
PHILOSOPHY in LEGGINGS 