OM Yoga Show, London

Coming up this weekend is the OM Yoga Show in London’s Alexandra Palace, a gorgeous setting for three days of mind and body goodness. Featuring everything from BSL interpreted yoga to high energy techno yoga, by way of balance boards, art easels, and CBD, it’s an opportunity to explore just how wide and expansive theContinue reading “OM Yoga Show, London”

The No Need To Diet Book: Become a Diet Rebel and Make Friends with Food – Pixie Turner

Society tells us that being fat is the worst possible thing. It does this in the guise of helping us to be ‘healthy’, in the process demonising certain foods and praising the thin ideal. But society is wrong. All this approach has done has made us miserable and unhealthy. It’s  time for a change, saysContinue reading “The No Need To Diet Book: Become a Diet Rebel and Make Friends with Food – Pixie Turner”

How to Feel the Fear and Eat It Anyway by Eve Simmons and Laura Dennison

We’re obsessed with eating. What we eat, how much of it, when we do it, how we do it, and what it looks like. But this enthrallment with what’s on the plate (or artisan slate board) and in our bodies is making us miserable. With eating disorders at endemic proportions, disordered eating the new norm,Continue reading “How to Feel the Fear and Eat It Anyway by Eve Simmons and Laura Dennison”

Practical Kindness: 52 Ways to Bring More Compassion, Courage, and Kindness into Your World Paperback by Lara K. Heacock

We tend to divide ways of being into binary camps. There’s active doing and passive being. There’s hard actions and soft feelings. Solid practice and ephemeral thought. Lara K Heacock’s new book Practical Kindness: 52 Ways to Bring More Compassion, Courage, and Kindness into Your World challenges such distinctions. A collection of 52 ways toContinue reading “Practical Kindness: 52 Ways to Bring More Compassion, Courage, and Kindness into Your World Paperback by Lara K. Heacock”

Whitstable Yoga Festival

The yoga scene in the UK can sometimes be either very city centric, with the London streets competing for lithe, smoothie swilling exercisers to come to their slick studios, or esoteric and spiritual, with hippies out in the sticks connecting to Mother Nature through their breathing. Whitstable Yoga Festival challenges both of those stereotypes. TakingContinue reading “Whitstable Yoga Festival”