Most of us will suffer with stress at some point in our lives. According to the Mental health Foundation, 74% of UK adults have felt so stressed at some point over the last year they felt overwhelmed or unable to cope. Stress is a major factor...
April is National Stress Awareness month, so naturally this month, I'll be posting about this topic mainly. Stress is often talked about as being a ‘modern’ malaise, as though it didn’t exist in former times. However, there has always been stress. But these days there always seems...
When I first started teaching Yoga privately, I took for granted that I would be spending much of my professional life in Hampstead Garden Suburbs, teaching the wives of the wealthy. However, nothing could have been further from the truth. Over the years, as much as...
“Life is a constant readjustment. It’s whether you readjust consciously that makes all the difference.” This week its National Work Life Week and it is an opportunity for both employers and employees to focus on well-being at work and work-life balance. Employers can use the week...
Mindfulness meditation is a powerful and ancient meditation technique that is proven to help reduce stress, alleviate anxiety and depression, and even help with pain and illness. Forbes recently reported that Brown University had found a convincing link between mindfulness meditation and improved cardiovascular health. Meditation’s...
Anxiety is a type of fear usually associated with the thought of a threat or something going wrong in the future, but can also arise from something happening right now (Mental Health Foundation). Everyone has feelings of anxiety at some point in their life – for...