Wednesday Hatha Yoga for Beginners Class, Elgar Centre, Northampton

20/10/2025

Whenever I come to my gym for a swim and visiting sauna, and pass the gym floor, I happen to see people working out with a noticeable force; red-faced, straining, heaving weights around, as if trying to wrestle their bodies into submission. Every single rep looked like a small act of war.
There's an Osteopathic saying that the body is “the primary machinery of life” the tool through which we engage with the world. Every gesture of kindness, every act of service, every word of love is expressed through this extraordinary machinery. If it breaks down or is mistreated, our capacity to live fully, to love deeply and to serve meaningfully, becomes limited.
To care for the body, then, is to honour life itself and yoga is a way to care and to learn. Yoga allows you to get to such a level of body awareness when you know what nourishes and what harms you. Whenever you feel or choose to work hard, you will know how to care hard.
To start learning abut your body, please find your local yoga class or come to one of mine. The link is below.

18/09/2025

Would you want to know why you feel tired most of the time, starting in the morning and continuing through the day?

Stress response is always our bodily reaction. It comes through our head but what we feel and the reason we feel it is our bodily reaction! And long after the reason has gone, it is still sitting in the body, in our contracted muscles.
As it’s involuntary body response, we don’t have voluntary control over this tension. And with time the tonicity of our muscles tends to increase, leading chronic muscular tension. Which means the muscles will always feel tired and firm.
People with chronically high tonicity often feel that their muscles are ‘weak’ because they can’t move freely. Sometimes physicians will tell them that the muscles have become weak. On the contrary, their muscles are quite strong, but they are tired and overworked form contracting all the time. The chronically contracted muscle is like a motor that one can’t turn off. It continues to run and to burn up energy. The only way out to work on releasing this tension.
If you want to give it a go, then feel free to book for my class.

Face to Face Hatha Yoga Classes for Intermediate and Beginning levels in a friendly environment. Willen pavilion, Milton Keynes and Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton.

28/08/2025

You will be shocked to know that 10-year study of 268 people over the age of 60, Palmore reported that degree and frequency of illness was related more directly to physical inactivity! Those who were physically inactive were two-and-half times more likely to spend at least 14 days a year bed-ridden as were those who were physically active!
To continue the above, I happen to have come accross people who live their lives completely unaware of the role of physical exercise, waiting for the moment when they can't ignore the calls from their bodies, and only then coming for a quick fix!
Please don't wait till that moment, because the quick fix is not a sustainable miricle.
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Face to Face Hatha Yoga Classes for Intermediate and Beginning levels in a friendly environment. Willen pavilion, Milton Keynes and Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton.