pregnancy yoga

Tonight Pregnancy yoga is starting again. I love the way yoga helps with pregnancy - not only does it help with aches and pains that develop, it makes more room for baby and during the yoga session mums to be can really relax. During yoga nidra I see them going into a beautiful place where they can communicate with their babies and prepare for child birth and motherhood. These yoga sessions are so precious and it is so lovely to share their pregancy.

Christchurch Earthquake

It is impossible to put into words the grief and sorrow that has come to such innocent people, already under stress from other aftershocks.
May it be an opportunity for all New Zealand to come together to support everyone who is suffering. Christchurch - please know that you are surrounded with love

Yoga outside in nature

Today I had the most beautiful yoga session - it was in Pohutakawa Park which overlooks the whole of Waihi Beach and township - the Park is grassy and in the shade of pohutakawas. Today is a stunning day with no breeze, no clouds, just hot February sun. In the shade it was just right.
If you ever want a real buzz, try yoga outside in a beautiful place - it is guaranteed to be very special and although it sounds cheesy, - it makes me feel part of nature and the surrounding beauty and is very energising.

a late photo of yoga on Waihi Beach on New Years Day

an amazing retreat

A lady from the UK came for a reflexology treatment yesterday and we got chatting about Ayurveda. She reported that she had been to this retreat in Sri Lanka twice. It is set in picturesque jungle and you sleep in huts with open sides and mosquito nets. All the food is grown on site and prepared fresh and deliciously. Yoga each day and treatments if you wish - what could be better? She said the second visit was just as good as the first and the overall experience comes highly recommended. The website is informative and I would just love to visit.
Have a look and have a dream... www.ulpotha.com

arches

Do you hear people talking about their arches and wonder whether you have high or low or normal arches?

If you wet one of your feet and stand firmly on a surface eg. concrete, so you leave a footprint.

Have a look at the footprint and if the arch is clearly visible between your heel and ball of foot - you have flat arches.

If there is hardly any arch in the print and your footprint almost looks like two separate bits you have high arches.

If your footprint is somewhere in the middle with half the arch visible, then you have normal feet.