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To keep you healthy, free from injury and to maximise the benefit of your yoga practice, finding the correct alignment for your body is vitally important. Alignment of the joints by stacking them on top of each other or in the same plane of movement puts the least amount of strain on the ligaments and is the most efficient position … Read More

Over the many years I have spent teaching and practising in the heat, I have found it to be a very powerful teacher. Its taught me that even in the most difficult conditions I can remain calm. Its fiercely taught me to connect with myself when things are tough. Its taught me how to use my breath to get me … Read More

In a hot yoga class breath control is fundamental in order to keep your core temperature down, your mind focused and stress levels low. There are several different ways to breathe so here is a breakdown of all of them. Pranayama Deep Breathing Using the arms as bellows expands the ribcage to create more space for the lungs and with … Read More

The breath is intimately connected to our life force energy, what yogis call Prana. In a yoga practice, the breath is the most fundamental point of awareness, everything gets built on its foundation. If we aren’t breathing well and by that I mean shallow, just using a small portion of the lungs, our life force becomes depleted and we lose … Read More

Fierce Grace is free of the limits of some of the rigid yoga systems. It allows the body and mind to follow their wisdom and flow, while providing a framework that brings physical excellence. Fierce Grace is a 5-class yoga system based on Ashtanga, Power, classical hatha yoga and Bikram yoga and sequenced in ways that adhere to ancient yogic … Read More

I think it’s fair to say, yoga is having a bit of a moment. What used to be a hippie pastime has modernised and become main stream. I would argue that hot yoga has been a big part of that revolution. Bikram Yoga was the original form of hot yoga which exploded worldwide. A set sequence of 26 postures and … Read More

Looking in the mirror can be challenging and I know a lot of people struggle with it. The mirror is there to assist with finding the right alignment but it can be very difficult to switch off the inner critic and look at ourselves, as we are. Directing the focus of the eyes to control the attention in yoga is … Read More

I am absolutely thrilled to see that Yin is becoming a more and more popular class at the studio every week. This practice has profoundly changed my Yoga journey as it shows us where the yoga is coming from inside us, rather than being lost in the shape on the outside. Yin provides such a wonderful balance to the more … Read More

The retreat this year was really special. The thing that made it so amazing was the people who came because they went all in and got involved in everything. Every morning on the retreat we did half an hour meditation before class and I was pretty impressed that everybody turned up almost every day. It’s probably one of the hardest … Read More