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Search Results for: Marianne Elliott

I Give Up

June 18, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 28 Comments

I give up. An act of surrender

by Kara-Leah Grant I just wrote some 700 words and I realised that I've been telling the same damn story on this website for the past five years. A story of struggling to earn money through teaching yoga and writing. And now, I'm dropping the story and simply saying: I give up. I've had enough. I don't care anymore. I'm going to stop trying to earn a living from writing and teaching. Oh, I won't stop writing, nor will I stop teaching. These things I will continue to do, always and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: failure, give up, letting go, surrender

I’m not flexible enough to do yoga

April 5, 2011 by Alys Titchener 36 Comments

by guest author Alys Titchener It took me years to turn up to a yoga class. Years and years of liking the idea of yoga before actually appearing on a yoga mat. Why? Whenever I confessed I’d never done a yoga class; I’d always append the confession with – I’m not flexible enough. Never have been. I got dropped from the gymnastics club at the age of eight because I couldn’t reach my toes. I could do handstands, I could vault, I could balance on the beam, but I couldn’t touch my toes. Perhaps … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: alys titchener, body shame, flexibility, inflexible, meditation, motivation, personal journey, quite mind, shame, soft mind, starting yoga

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