Practice

When I was about 13 I started getting some weird stuff happening in my right hip. I was a very active kid, and was super into my ballet. I just loved it so much. But my hip started clunking in [...]

There are many reasons why we resist our yoga practice and that resistance can be very strong. After fighting my own excuses and listening to others, I’ve come to realise that it all boils down [...]

One of my big dreams came true this month. Something I have been hoping would happen ever since I opened Live and Breathe Yoga six years ago. David Keil finally made the very long trip from [...]

I turn 39 today. I’m a little rattled by it if I’m being honest. I know it’s just a number. I know when I’m 59 I’ll look back and wonder what all the fuss was about. I had a similar kind of freak [...]

It’s really hard to commit ourselves to an ashtanga yoga practice. Let’s face it – it’s really hard to commit ourselves to anything that will be good for us.  Anything worthwhile [...]

The jumpback is one of the most asked about elements of the ashtanga yoga practice. Almost every weekend workshop I have attended there has been a session dedicated to this illusive yet awe [...]

I never really liked the idea of having a word for the year. To be honest I always came up with way too many to narrow it down to just one. However, last week while we were hanging out at my [...]

I first came to ashtanga yoga quite broken although I didn’t realise it. I was 22 when I decided to try yoga. I had been training in the gym, swimming, running, paddling canoes – you name [...]

‘Yoga is the process of replacing old patterns with new more appropriate patterns’      Sri Krishnamacharya ‘And then it dawned on me that I didn’t have to put up with this shit anymore’    Penel [...]

The last three postures of the ashtanga yoga practice are just as important and the Sun salutations in the beginning. When we start practising ashtanga yoga we often just learn the sun [...]

When I was in my first year at university, I was in a serious car accident. I was thrown out the back window and finished up out in the dirt about 10 metres from the car.  I’d broken both [...]

A headstand is one of those postures that everyone wants to be able to do.  It’s majestic and quite magical and seems so impossible when you first give it a try. When I first started [...]

Yoga Instagram challenge starting on October 1st 10 days… 1 drishti per day and one day of turning our gaze inward to our heart in meditation… We are so excited to announce the first Live and [...]

I first really discovered the value of this yoga pose when I was on a city break with my two sisters in Berlin.  We had taken a fantastic walking tour of the city, but it had been a long day on [...]

HOW AM I EATING AND HOW DOES IT MAKE ME FEEL? There are two parts to this question: 1. How am I eating? The Hatha Yoga Pradipika states that the yogi should fill two parts of his stomach with [...]