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Reflections on Teaching the Worst Yoga Class of My Life

January 29, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant On Saturday I taught my first yoga class in five weeks, as it's summer holidays here and I've been doing just that - holidaying. Possibly it wasn't prudent to take so much time off teaching when I've got a major festival within a week - i.e. Wanderlust. Although as I've been on a Forty Day Practice, my asana practice is stronger than it's ever been. However it turns out a strong asana practice doesn't necessarily make me a stronger teacher. I turned up on Saturday … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: ashtanga, home practice, intuition, wanderlust

Trust those feelings of yours… they’re trying to tell you something!

February 1, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

The stream that runs alongside our house... heavenly!

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat It's Monday morning and I have a stack of work to do. There's a multitude of emails in my inbox, two Wordpress clients expecting results, my personal website to re-brand, articles to load into The Yoga Lunchbox, numerous tasks for the website, accounts to do, workshops to prepare, classes to prep... The list goes on and on and I haven't even mentioned writing. Which - as you may have noticed in the last few months - keeps getting moved to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: feelings, intuition, lazy, productive, work

How yoga practice teaches you to listen to your intuition through life’s transitions

June 23, 2009 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by guest author Lynda Miers-Henneveld of Yoga Unlimited Yoga teaches us to embrace the natural rhythms of life. Through our practice we can ground ourselves in times of instability, or motivate and energise ourselves when we feel stuck. A personal practice has to reflect our changing circumstances if it is to support us in our journey through this life. If we stay present to what is happening in our bodies, minds and hearts, we can adapt our practice intuitively. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: change, child, intuition, patience, surrender

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