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What’s the buzz about meditation?
It's all about performance, focus & emotion regulation. Meditation improves your performance by developing focus and supporting emotion regulation.
Maintaining Balance | Weekly Yoga Class Focus
Reflecting this week 'where am I out of balance in my life? Can I pull back and find the centre?'
Proof anyone can meditate. Busting the myths
'You don't need to sit on a deserted beach in lotus pose to meditate. Nor must you clear your head.'
Lotus Flower Hand Dance - from Yoga for Arthritis
A yoga mudra sequence - the lotus flower hand dance.
Contemplating Death | Weekly Yoga Class Focus
Death is a great teacher….. are you going to wait until the last moment to let it teach you?
Not resisting | Weekly Yoga Class Focus
Can I stop resisting life’s events & instead deal with each event with acceptance?
Do you want to be happy | Weekly Yoga Class Focus
Can I decide to be happy, stay open to life, regardless of what happens? Once you make that choice, your path through life becomes totally clear.
A Contemplation Meditation
Allow, a poem by Danna Faulds. An opportunity for contemplation on the words of the poem. An opportunity for a contemplation meditation.
Let go of False Solidity | Weekly Yoga Class Focus
Is there someone who is not behaving according to my expectations in my life?
Boost your focus & productivity today
Add these three simple practices, which take no time at all, to your morning routine, and enhance your focus, productivity and performance for the day.
Love your edges | Weekly Yoga Class Focus
'Love your edges, because they point your way to freedom’. There are two ways you can live: you can devote your life to staying in your comfort zone or you can work on freeing yourself from the limits of your mind.
Relax the body and the mind follows – the first principle of meditation.
When we meditate there are two fundamental and key elements at play. Firstly, the body relaxing and secondly, the mind settling, or calming.
What's preventing me from experiencing light in my life?
Reflecting this week 'What is the thickest wall I have built in my psyche, my mind, that prevents me from experiencing light in my life?' Resolving in the week ahead to notice when you close yourself off to this light, opportunities, or living more freely.
What is a ‘Spot Meditation’ anyway?
It’s opportunistic, it can take 10 seconds and it releases the pressure valve.
Choose peace over pain & love over fear
Choosing to let peace and love run your life, rather than be ruled by pain or fear.
Self-Care: Starting the Year with Healthful Intentions
Your invitation to take time to set the tone for the months ahead, with the power of self-care, to transform your wellbeing.
The Power of Self-Reflection, with a New Year here
I share some tips and ideas for effective self-reflection; drawn from my therapeutic philosophy, practices, and experience.
6 Qualities to Cultivate this Christmas Time
Your invitation to reflect, or consider, in the lead-up to the festive season is: How do I wish to be this Christmas? What qualities & attitudes am I aspiring for?
Mindful Approaches to Holidays: Nurturing Self-Care and Boundaries
Self-care and boundaries are game changers in moving through family celebrations, which can be fraught with complicated emotions.
Navigating Year-End Stress: Strategies for Corporate Workers
The pressure to meet year-end targets, finish projects, and manage personal and professional obligations can become overwhelming. Let’s chunk down 3 key tips for effectively managing end of year stress.
Navigating Grief During Holiday Times and Special Occasions
Grief can have a big impact on holiday times and special occasions, especially in the first year following your loss.
Disenfranchised Grief and Validating Unseen Loss
Disenfranchised grief is a term used to describe the unique pain that arises when society doesn’t acknowledge or validate a particular loss.
Nurturing Growth Amidst Grief: Understanding Lois Tonkin's Model
There is no one way to grieve. Tonkin’s model of grief helps us to understand how we can continue to grow around our grief.
Understanding the Evolving Stages of Grief and Healing
If you’re navigating grief, there are some evolving ideas around the stages of grief and how we heal, that you may find supportive.
Practical Steps from Two Models of Grief
Robert Neimeyer's meaning-making model of grief, and the Dual Process Model.
Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Grief
Exploring 4 Models: The Tasks of Morning, Growing around Grief, Making Meaning & The Stages of Grief
How to use Journalling as your Own Inner Coach
Journalling can be a supportive and therapeutic way to engage in personal development and self-therapy…
Different ways to journal (with examples)
Different examples of journalling styles, including stream of consciousness and letter to self journalling.
20 Journal Prompts for Self Awareness
Some prompts to support you as you establish your own journalling practice.
Journalling as a tool for emotion regulation
I will sometimes offer journalling to clients who resonate with writing, as a complementary activity alongside therapy. By writing down our thoughts and emotional experiences, we can ‘externalise’ them (get them out of our heads and out into the world).