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Relief Yoga

Hatha Yoga in London. Learn asanas, pranayama and philosophy in a structured and progressive way. Private and group classes

19/10/2024

The saturated Bangkok

09/04/2024

Early Spring days

02/11/2023

The 1000 layer of autumn in England

06/12/2020

The weekends are for experimenting and learning new things.

This is a Japanese technique known as Kokedama. Ideal for indoor plants with slow growth.

I want to give it a try with this small propagated thyme, will give her another home once she is bigger.

17/11/2020

“Sadhana” in Sanskrit means “an effort exercised towards the achievement of a purpose".

Therefore our yoga shadana implies EFFORT.

Effort to wake up early, even before there is light outside.
Effort to avoid grabbing the phone and check your social media, but unroll your mat instead.

Have you ever felt internal opposition to practice? I do, very often, especially in the morning.

Your mind will try to elaborate all kinds of excuses. "I have not slept enough, I am sleepy". "My body feels heavy and tired... let's try tomorrow". "I have so many things to do today".

My way around is trying to focus on the reasons and benefits of practise: "this is my hour of self-care", "I am going to feel much relaxed and focus the rest of the day". "I am working out my body and my mind".

And I have very clear that TODAY is the best day to start. Even if it is a short practice of some rounds of surya namaskar and nadi shodhana.

What are your excuses? How do you overcome them?

11/10/2020

Tomato update!

08/10/2020

Yesterday we watch the latest documentary from David Attemborough, a Life in our Planet.

I cried a lot. But I will save you from those details.

These movies are eye-openers and a reminder that we need to change NOW. And an opportunity for evaluating how our own lifestyle is, and how we can make it more sustainable. Here there are some ideas:

- Reduce your comsumption of everything: cloths, electricity, objects, petrol. But especially meet, dairy, fish and plastic.

- Avoid bringing more humans into the world. Why not making an already born child happy?

- Volunteer during your free time. To help restoring habitats, in plantations. To change policy. Put your knowledge abd capabilities to fight against climate change.

- Make people around you aware. Help them how important is that everyone acts NOW.

Me, I decided compromising a bit more:

- Im already vegan and grow food in sumners, but I can def reduce my consumption of chocolate and coffee (😭😳🙈💪💪), and rice.

- I will start to bake my own bread and sweets again.

- I will change to a more ethical bank (like Triodos) and will research about other changes I can do, like electricity supplier to a renewable one.

- I will try to organise free food gardening classes. Imagine if we were all growing our own food...!

What is your compromise and commitment?

07/10/2020

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Do you like DRILLS? Or do you think they are not yoga?

I always like to work on some drills that help me to achieve an aim. But instead of doing them during my yoga practise, they are part of my gym routine.

I find these two exercises very useful to prepare for inverted poses:

- Strengthen the wrists, and you can practise your hasta bandha (or "monkey hand", see last pic).

- Teaches you how to raise the body to the vertical, with control! Essential for a good foundation.

- Tones your abs. Also essential for body control and inversions.

21/09/2020

Today is a very important day for me: I have started to work for the London Wildlife Trust 🌿🐾

- Non-profit. It means that their purpose is not commercial, their aim is not getting rich.

- A conservation organization. The moneys are invested in restoring spaces, making London greener, educating people, policy advocacy...

It means that every day I am going to spend the best hours of my day in doing something for the good of nature and us all.

It took 3.5 years and a lot of perseverance. Fight for your dreams, never give up!

17/09/2020

Stopping & observing

2 simple actions but they are the key to unlock infinite possibilities.

This little plants (in the picture between a Curcubitaceae and broccoli) would be consideted a w**d for most people. And pulled without a second thought.

Who would have thought that you can chew the leaves and apply over a sting or a rush for quick relief? Or put inside a wound to stop bleeding? O made or infused in oil for anti-inflammatory or ?

An growing between the tiles, in your .

My **ds taught me a lot during this lockdown. In the picture, Plantago major

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People! I am participating in a contest with a couple of entries! Wish me luck 🌿♥️

Have a look, they do an amazing work bringing gardens close to people in urban settings...and teaching how many thing we can do out of the things grown in our gardens!