Take it to heart

Take it to heart

Modern understandings of the heart are often anatomical and medical – relating to degrees of health and disease. Few would contest that the heart is critical to health but limiting it to its mechanical functions ignores more innate understandings of this important...
Sometimes you’re up…

Sometimes you’re up…

Life is full of ups and downs – it’s a part of the rhythm of life. From the many small moments of frustration and relief to the larger experiences of struggle and work that provide a conscious sense of achievement and delight, we live through the beat of day to day...
What a pain

What a pain

If you’ve ever experienced pain understanding the latest science will change your experience. Pain is complicated and it’s in your brain. Scientific research clearly demonstrates that pain is not in the tissue, limb, muscle or any other part of our body. It’s an...
Yoga anyone?

Yoga anyone?

Anyone can do yoga if they want to. Unfortunately, most of us have been exposed to images of fit, hyper-mobile people in complex yoga poses or heard of challenging yoga styles like Power, Hot or Acro yoga. There are so many messages out there that just end up adding...
Breathing to change the world

Breathing to change the world

I know the title is a big statement, but let’s consider for a moment how critical breath is. While children generally breathe faster than adults and our rates of breath change with exertion and emotion, most of us breathe around 30,000 breaths a day. That’s a lot of...