I’ve been running a free, council funded community yoga class at the Compton Centre in Harehills, inner north east Leeds for the for over a year. So, when coronavirus social distancing came in someone in the class suggested we use Facebook to keep it going it seemed a good idea. Moving online might also get more …
It seems to me there are really some lessons to be learned after we get through this. It really is as if nature is teaching us a lesson.
I’ve started running specialist neurodiverse yoga sessions. The yoga is designed to be beneficial to autistic and other neurodiverse people. I am autistic myself and I have incorporated elements such as breath work and postures to aid with some of the issues and challenges people with neurological difference can face. The areas yoga can help …
It’s a wonderful thing to have a place to call home – specially when it’s a beautiful, airy sunlit room with view. From next week Bikebuddha yoga will be running a new Tuesday evening class in a bright, wooden-floored regular home with plenty of space and a great location. It will be a real treat …
There’s nothing like taking it easy on a Sunday morning. Modern life is stressful and busy and a moment of calm in all the madness can be a welcome tonic to the soul. Staying a bit longer in bed with the papers and a fry-up is most people’s idea of a Sunday treat. But the …
It was a character in Armistead Maupin’s classic story of San Francisco flower power Tales of the City who once said: “You can have a hot apartment, a hot lover, and a hot job, but you can’t have all three at the same time”. That’s a truism I think we could all do with examining …
Have you ever thought about doing yoga outdoors? It’s strangely uncommon in the UK but really popular elsewhere in the world. In India and Nepal there are always little pockets of people at sunrise up in the hills Surya Namaskar-ing away. In the US and Japan people do yoga in urban parks, much as they …
Update – this class is no longer running, for current schedule see classes I’ve started a new class in the lovely upstairs room at Rico’s restaurant just round the corner in Oakwood, Leeds near Roundhay park. It’s a really great place for people to practice yoga. It’s got nice, bright light from the bay windows …
Update – this class is no longer running, for current schedule see classes I’ve started running drop in yoga classes in Oakwood North Leeds on a Friday morning and Saturday afternoon. There’s room for up to six people, donation only, no need to book just turn up. I’ll be doing the classes anyway so whoever …
I’ll shortly be landing in Manchester and my Nepal volunteering trip will be over. I’ve just been having an interesting mid-flight chat with an academic in the plane’s kitchen about middle aged men who visit Thailand. That, along with the novel I’m reading, has got me thinking – what is our purpose? What are we …