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The gift that keeps on giving - Yogability, 'The Chai Sessions'
Debbie is the founder of Yogability, a very wonderful charity working here in Glasgow. Yogability provide free yoga to children and adults with special needs, their families and carers in our community. At MCY we support Yogability with fundraising every year in the form of our 108 Sun Salutations challenge.
This is an emotional, heartfelt chat you won’t want to miss.
What makes a yoga practice yoga? - James Boag, 'The Chai Sessions'
During each online chai session we’ve shared up till now, I’ve always imagined that we were sitting face to face on the sofa in the studio. I was so excited to finally have the opportunity to do just that with James Boag recently and can now share our first ever in-person chai session here with you!
Pop the kettle on, get yourself comfy and come and join us.
Homecoming - massage therapy & moving into the body - Jules Harrington, 'The Chai Sessions'
Jules has been travelling to MCY from Edinburgh to share her magical massage skills since 2016.
To start I ask Jules how she describes what she does. It's not just physical body work, what Jules offers is something quite special.
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Now Yoga Begins - James Boag, 'The Chai Sessions'
Over the years James has been a regular visitor to MCY. I was so desperate for people to hear what he had to share and for them to see the gift in texts like the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras. He's helping us all see the wisdom in these teachings and how we can work with them, not only in our yoga practice on the mat but off the mat too as we go about our daily lives.
Pop the kettle on, get yourself comfy and come and join us.
Why Pranayama? - Siobhan Fitzgerald, 'The Chai Sessions'
In our chat Siobhan and I discuss why you would consider doing a more formal breathing or pranayama practice. We breathe anyway, why do we need to give it extra attention?
We also ask the question, "Is thinking about pranayama as just a breathing practice actually too small?" Pranayama is a whole lot more than just breathing.
Pop the kettle on, get yourself comfy and come and join us in the upside-down.
Illuminate Your Practice - Scott Johnson, 'The Chai Sessions'
Scott Johnson is co-founder and senior teacher at Stillpoint Yoga in London. He first came to MCY back in 2018 where he bravely ate the very first vegan cake I ever made! He’ll be joining us again April 2022.
Pop the kettle on, get yourself comfy and come and join us.
Community, connection, keeping it real in 2022
As this year draws to a close I’ve been thinking about the year just passed and what it has meant for Merchant City Yoga.
When I took up the reins of MCY in 2012 I was determined to make the studio, the yoga, the community as integrated, practical and real as possible. So when we were forced to close the studio by the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 my strategy was the same - keep everyone connected, share yoga by whatever practical means we could and above all, keep it real for everyone.