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MCY's Got Talent - Maintaining Hip Mobility with Jean McInerney
I know that when Jean started her training with us back September 2019 she couldn’t imagine ever teaching a yoga class, never mind recording a class for us to share with you!
On Coming Back
Returning to the practice, meeting limitations, and the magic of ‘beginners’ mind’
Things are opening up again, and we’re coming back. It’s certainly not quite “back to normal” but even so I often feel like there’s a pressure to be jubilant about returning to many of our old habits and activities, which we don’t always necessarily feel. It’s complicated!
The Practice of Rest
True rest is not something most of us actively make time for in our lives. We’re busy. There’s stuff to do… then there’s more stuff to do...
Amidst the never ending to-do list, when exactly are we supposed to rest anyway? What does rest even mean or look like? Why bother?
MCY's Got Talent - 15 Minute Yoga Practice for busy days with Clare Skelton
Yoga’s a practical tool intended to support us as we live our lives. While it’s tempting to think we don’t have time, or it’s not a proper practice unless it’s lengthy and blissful, it’s often our short practices shoe-horned between other commitments that bring us the richest gifts! Give Clare’s 15-minute on demand class a try…
MCY's Got Talent - Fluidity of Movement with Diana Krasniqi
I’m sure many of you will really identify with the ups and downs of practise Diana talks about here, especially how injury can stop you practising and leave you feeling disconnected from your body. The very opposite of what we’re trying to do in yoga!
Diana graduated from our CYS Glasgow Yoga Teacher Training programme last August in the midst of Covid. I’m so proud that she’s had the courage to find her way back to her practice, explore what works for her own body and share it with us all here.
Let’s talk about the Menopause
Menopause is an important issue for all women.
Fellow yoga teacher Sarah Bell is doing the important work of sharing her own experience of peri-menopause and supporting women as they navigate their own challenges. Here’s her story so far…
The value of a seasonal approach to yoga practice
[Guest post by Ema Sibikina]
Life is organised by numbers. 9-5, 24/7, £p/a, km/h, bpm, calories, alarm clocks, step counters and heart rate monitors.. We track everything with numbers and apps - productivity, fitness, sleep, menstrual cycles, even our meditation practice.
We are also encouraged to be the same day in, day out - consistently productive and efficient, reliably unchanging. And if you do live your life by app and timetable and spend your time within four walls, it can be easy to be fooled into thinking that is normal…