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Meditation 101 | Who Has Time to Meditate Anyway?

What if you don’t live in the mountains and tend a garden for a living – how do you fit meditating into your real life? If you can believe it, my daily meditation practice started on my city bus commute to my office job. I put my headphones in, held my bag in my lapContinue reading “Meditation 101 | Who Has Time to Meditate Anyway?”

Yoga & Meditation 101 | Let’s Talk About Visualizing

In yoga, if you can picture the pose in your mind before your body begins to find it – the pose will flow so nicely for you. In meditation, visualization is a muscle I think we can all exercise – allowing you to tap into the creative well within you. In my humble opinion, theContinue reading “Yoga & Meditation 101 | Let’s Talk About Visualizing”

Yoga 101 | So I learned a few yoga poses… now what?

Now that you have learned some yoga poses, what do you do with them? Here are some ideas: Learn a new yoga pose each week with me & expand the yoga poses that you know! I am so pleased to bring the “visual catalogue” of yoga poses to life over on my new page: #YPBContinue reading “Yoga 101 | So I learned a few yoga poses… now what?”

Meditation Monday | Sleep Talk Down

Read along below or listen on YouTube / Spotify. Hello, and thank you for joining me for today’s guided meditation: a Sleep Talk Down intended to send you off for sweet dreams and a deep rest all night long. Together we’ll find a comfortable resting position. Make sure that you have a blanket and aContinue reading “Meditation Monday | Sleep Talk Down”

Meditation 101 | How Do You Begin Meditating?

& how on earth do you “empty the mind”?!?! Meditation does not require emptying the mind – first of all. After a decade of meditation practise, I recommend starting with guided meditations. They are still my favourite style of meditating because the worry of “what do I think about?” is removed. A guide will literallyContinue reading “Meditation 101 | How Do You Begin Meditating?”

Meditation Monday | 10 Minute Guided Relaxation

Read along below, or get comfortable and press play on Spotify or YouTube. Hello. Today’s meditation is a guided relaxation exercise. I fell in love with meditation through guided relaxation. As someone with high anxiety, relaxing didn’t come naturally to me. Having somebody walk me through with a calming soothing voice was very beneficial, andContinue reading “Meditation Monday | 10 Minute Guided Relaxation”

Yoga 101 | Do I Need to be Flexible to Do Yoga?

When you think of yoga – does a pretzel shaped person in stretchy pants appear in your mind? The true goal of yoga is linking breath and movement, and this requires zero flexibility. The beauty of yoga is that it does increase your flexibility (& mobility!) with time and practise. However, the ability to standContinue reading “Yoga 101 | Do I Need to be Flexible to Do Yoga?”