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7 signs your active lifestyle maybe be messing with your health.

July 31, 2017Blog Uncategorized

Let’s hand out some red flags. Get waving them at me if you are:

Feeling either unpleasantly plump or dangerously preskeletal.
Ravenous at times, off your food at others.
Lying awake at night, thoughts racing.
Tired all the time.
Racked with aches and pains.
Accident and injury prone.
Forgetting easy stuff like names, birthdays, the day of the week.

Almost no one ever tells you should exercise LESS but if you’re waving that red flag at me right now, this yogi is.

Now I know what it means to not listen to advice. I also know what happens when you ignore the wisdom of your body. So, before you dismiss this course of action as outright lunacy, please read my story. It’s all here, alongside some yogi tools to reclaim balance and enhance your hormonal health.

Plus, I’ll share why being less active can sometimes actually help improve athletic performance. It’s all about listening to your body folks. Come with me. It’s time to tune in and tune up.

Is your mind-set getting in the way of having what you want?

July 23, 2017YOGI IN TRAINING

5 yogi-inspired ways to build mind muscle and fulfil your dreams.

Do you ever fall short of your goals? How often have you thrown in the towel and declared; ‘now’s not the right time’, I can’t do it?’ Does it cross your mind that in some areas of your life, success might not even be possible for you - EVER.

Ok yogi’s-in-training, we got some strength work to do – for your mind.

Step right this way...

Yoga Q&A Quickie. What to do when your down dog ‘kills your wrists’.

July 16, 2017YOGI IN TRAINING

I asked: "Where do you feel the weakest? Would it help if certain muscles were stronger?"

You said: "Arms. Downward dog kills my arms and wrists.

Anyone relate to this? Can I hear a hell yes!"

Before I dive in with some solutions I want to ask you to consider that building strength isn’t necessarily just about having more/bigger muscles or isolating one particularly muscle over another. Nope my yogi friend, building strength is also about using all the muscles you have more efficiently, especially those that have not joined the party for some time. I call that union, which, as is happens, means Yoga…very cool right?

FLIP FLOP READY YOGA

July 13, 2017Blog

Ramp up some summer self-lovin with these 3 simple steps

Flip flops and (come to think of it), handbags too. I just lurrrve.

Ask me why… OK I’m imagining you’re asking (I like to ‘see’ you as I’m writing this stuff – else sometimes this blogging thing can feel a little crazy). Anyways, the answer is...they always fit. Right? You don’t dig around in your shoe stack and hope you’re going to get back into your fave flops. At least that’s never happened to me.

So, girls (and boys if you’re out there) you’re flip flops are always good to go…each summer. Ready, steady. They’re ready to rock. Question is, are you?

PRIORITISE THIS: A SUMMER STRATEGY FOR YOGIS-IN-TRAINING

July 10, 2017Blog YOGI IN TRAINING

PRIORITISE THIS:

Here it is. The one thing you can do to maximise your summer sports performance. ADJUST.

Yes, you can boost your efforts in the gym and in training by simply taking on habits, routines and dietary choices that are in harmony with arrival of the new season and the cycles of nature.

This, my athletic friend, is the science behind what’s called Ayurveda, (pronounced ‘I-Your-Veda’) a 5,000-year-old conscious-based way of maximising your health and fitness. It’s intuitive and makes sense.

Jump on in for 3 ways to adjust your summer training plans.

It’s getting hot in here! Announcing TWO new summer yoga programmes.

July 9, 2017News

TWO new summer yoga programmes coming soon...things are hotting up, but stay cool.

Hellloooo. Exciting news. I've just wrapped up the details on two new summer yoga programmes. First up, we'll be ramping up some summer self-lovin' during a five class practice that will find you Flip Flop Ready, no sweat.

I've also created a special five class programme for athletes/active folks looking to train smart, set priorities and stay on track as the holiday season threatens to unravel their hard-earned fitness gains.

Don't let a summer break sabotage your health and wellbeing goals. Yoga has your back.

Feast on a Q&A Quickie: How can sports yoga help sports performance?

June 5, 2017YOGI IN TRAINING

Roll out the gingham, it's time for a quickie. ;)

So I get asked this a lot. How can sports yoga help sports performance?

In fact, it was THE NUMBER ONE question asked by my yogi's in training who get my Yoga Local newsletter. So cop a yoga squat (or not) while I answer it.

Rather than reel off the big shout-outs to flexibility, strength, balance, which I've talked about before, I'll answer this question from a different angle.

Think of the common traits that equal sporting success. I did, and came up with a SUPER SIX PICNIC to feast on.

More Yoga for Sports and Exciting Offer

April 24, 2017News

Coming Soon...can you help?

Exciting news. I’m really, really close to wrapping up the details on a long-awaited extra yoga programme I’ve been working on since completing a five-day intensive specialised course, Yoga for Sports Training, with Jim Harrington (Australian coach to the Indian National Cricket Team).

This new yoga series will be entirely focused on a Yoga for Sport practice, offering physical postures and yoga tools that are most versatile and useful for a range of athletes - runners, swimmers, cyclists, but also rugby players, surfers, footballers etc. It will run over five weeks at a new venue to be announced real soon.

In it I will take you through all the ways yoga can:

Optimise recovery.
Reduce injury in your sport and help with rehab.
Build power, flexibility and strength using poses designed around specific sports movement patterns.
Build core consciousness.
Offer a mental break from training.
Improve your range of motion.
Give you the edge in your training.

3 Reasons to Find Permission to Pause

April 20, 2017Blog

YOGA, as well as a really cool physical practice that gives us a great outer bod, also encourages us to take a look under the hood (so to speak) and tinker around for some deeper solutions to life’s daily challenges.

Today’s yoga solution is: Find Permission to Pause.

Let’s be real, only when you draw that line in the sand, pin your flag to the mast, dig in your size sixes and scream ‘enough now’. Then and only then, can things start to shift in your life, evolve – move along baby.

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, whatever you want that result to be is, as Einstein famously put, insane.

I’m not calling anyone crazy, here, but maybe, urmm aren’t we a little?

5 Yogi Answers To Your Pre 26.2 Problems

April 11, 2017Blog YOGI IN TRAINING

Yogi-In-Training Q&A

Q: I'm on London Marathon Countdown. How can yoga help me prepare for my best 26.2?

First of all awesome work. It takes big-ass discipline and determination to get this close to your 26.2 and I know it’s not easy. I earned my medal (that’s mine opposite) four years ago. I was a super fledging yogi-in-training (BC – Before Chopra) and using yoga asana (poses) purely for the physical benefits, as a lot of us do.

Truth is I didn’t really get that there was much more to it. I may even have shrugged it off as not for me. Big mistake.

I didn’t know just how much yoga could offer a massive edge to my training, performance and overall wellbeing. I’m here today (AC – After Chopra) to show you how it can and if you’re open, to share some yoga inspired pre-marathon preparations to send you on your way to your best 26.2. Feel free to share them with your athletic friends and family.

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