Yoga as Emotional Therapy

Mention yoga to anyone and it inevitably conjures up images of fit bendy people in exotic poses. It’s easy to forget that long before yoga’s recent popularity in the West it developed over many hundreds, if not thousands of years as a way of not only optimising the physical body, but also understanding the mind, and ultimately and perhaps most ambitiously a way of liberating us from our suffering...

Stress – What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

It can often feel like life is just full of stress coming at us from every angle. Without the proper coping mechanisms in place, it’s easy to end up accumulating all our different kinds of stress into one large stress ball that leaves us feeling overwhelmed and unable to cope. But learning how to identify our different kinds of stress not only keeps us from falling prey to this modern day epidemic...

Strength, Conditioning & Yoga

Often when you look at an elite athlete it looks like they were just born to be that fit. But in reality it’s been a long time since sports men and women have relied on their super human genes, or got in shape simply by playing and practicing their respective sport. The pressure on today’s athletes to stay at the top of their game has never been bigger, and their level of fitness plays a critical roll...

Is your food addictive?

As the nation’s waistlines continue to increase, it is hardly surprising that concern about obesity is reaching fever pitch amongst health care professionals, politicians and the media.  

Behind the rhetoric there is a serious health problem that is spiraling out of control with no sign of abating anytime soon. It is now estimated that around 60% of adults and around 30% of children...

Hope I die before I get old

To say there is a modern day obsession with looking younger than our years could be something of an understatement. And with an anti-aging industry turning over a staggering 170 billion pounds annually, it’s also worth pointing out it’s an obsession we are happy to pay big money for...

10 simple tips for healthy aging

1) Our ability to age well boils down to adopting a healthy lifestyle - our genes only account for around 20-25% of the way we age.

2) Exercise is the only real anti-aging pill we have - also look for less obvious ways to exercise like getting a dog, using the stairs instead of the lift, etc...