• Yoga has meant many things to me over the years. It started as a way to be flexible, fit, strong and a way to challenge the limits of my body and mind. Now, it’s a daily tool to help me deal with anxiety, create clarity, peace and calm. This photo makes me smile. It was taken in Notting Hill, when travelling overseas was a lot more normal, with the talented @yogaphotographer x
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    Yoga has meant many things to me over the years. It started as a way to be flexible, fit, strong and a way to challenge the limits of my body and mind. Now, it’s a daily tool to help me deal with anxiety, create clarity, peace and calm. This photo makes me smile. It was taken in Notting Hill, when travelling overseas was a lot more normal, with the talented @yogaphotographer x
  • Why is cross training so important? Cross training helps you increase strength, power, speed, endurance, agility and balance. Being so passionate about yoga, I’ve stuck with it as my main form of movement for years. Until I recently discovered Pilates, and found my second love. It’s strengthened deeper muscles of my core, helped stabilise my hips, and has reduced the risk of me having an injury. And the biggest thing for me; it’s helped me advance further in my yoga practice ❤️.
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    Why is cross training so important? Cross training helps you increase strength, power, speed, endurance, agility and balance. Being so passionate about yoga, I’ve stuck with it as my main form of movement for years. Until I recently discovered Pilates, and found my second love. It’s strengthened deeper muscles of my core, helped stabilise my hips, and has reduced the risk of me having an injury. And the biggest thing for me; it’s helped me advance further in my yoga practice ❤️.
  • Interrupting the yoga posts, for a picture of the pre-wedding party for my little sis! Can’t wait for all the celebrations this week ❤️
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    Interrupting the yoga posts, for a picture of the pre-wedding party for my little sis! Can’t wait for all the celebrations this week ❤️
  • The growth in change 🏹. For those of you also taking a leap, a long but worthwhile read of a passage from Danaan Parry... “Sometimes I feel that my life is a series of trapeze swings. I’m either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments in my life, I’m hurtling across space in between trapeze bars. Most of the time, I spend my life hanging on for dear life to the trapeze- bar-of-the-moment. It carries me along at a certain steady rate of swing and I have the feeling that I’m in control of my life. I know most of the right questions and even some of the answers. But, every once in a while as I’m merrily swinging along, I look out ahead of me into the distance and what do I see? I see another trapeze bar swinging toward me. It’s empty and I know, in that place in me that knows, that this new trapeze bar has my name on it. It is my next step, my growth, my aliveness coming to get me. In my heart-of-hearts I know that, for me to grow, I must release my grip on this present, well-known bar and move to the new one. Each time it happens to me I hope that I won’t have to let go of my old bar completely before I grab the new one. But in my knowing place, I know that I must totally release my grasp on my old bar and, for some moment in time, I must hurtle across space before I can grab onto the new bar. Each time, I am filled with terror. It doesn’t matter that in all my previous hurtles across the void of unknowing I have always made it. I am each time afraid that I will miss, that I will be crushed on unseen rocks in the bottomless chasm between bars. I do it anyway. Perhaps this is the essence of the faith experience. No guarantees, no net, no insurance policy, but you do it anyway because somehow to keep hanging on to that old bar is no longer on the list of alternatives. So, for an eternity that can last a microsecond or a thousand lifetimes, I soar across the dark void of ‘the past is gone, the future is not yet here.’ It’s called ‘transition.’ I have come to believe that this transition is the only place where real change occurs. I mean real change, not the pseudo-change..(cont. in comments)
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    The growth in change 🏹. For those of you also taking a leap, a long but worthwhile read of a passage from Danaan Parry... “Sometimes I feel that my life is a series of trapeze swings. I’m either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments in my life, I’m hurtling across space in between trapeze bars. Most of the time, I spend my life hanging on for dear life to the trapeze- bar-of-the-moment. It carries me along at a certain steady rate of swing and I have the feeling that I’m in control of my life. I know most of the right questions and even some of the answers. But, every once in a while as I’m merrily swinging along, I look out ahead of me into the distance and what do I see? I see another trapeze bar swinging toward me. It’s empty and I know, in that place in me that knows, that this new trapeze bar has my name on it. It is my next step, my growth, my aliveness coming to get me. In my heart-of-hearts I know that, for me to grow, I must release my grip on this present, well-known bar and move to the new one. Each time it happens to me I hope that I won’t have to let go of my old bar completely before I grab the new one. But in my knowing place, I know that I must totally release my grasp on my old bar and, for some moment in time, I must hurtle across space before I can grab onto the new bar. Each time, I am filled with terror. It doesn’t matter that in all my previous hurtles across the void of unknowing I have always made it. I am each time afraid that I will miss, that I will be crushed on unseen rocks in the bottomless chasm between bars. I do it anyway. Perhaps this is the essence of the faith experience. No guarantees, no net, no insurance policy, but you do it anyway because somehow to keep hanging on to that old bar is no longer on the list of alternatives. So, for an eternity that can last a microsecond or a thousand lifetimes, I soar across the dark void of ‘the past is gone, the future is not yet here.’ It’s called ‘transition.’ I have come to believe that this transition is the only place where real change occurs. I mean real change, not the pseudo-change..(cont. in comments)
  • At a time where covid has shaken up every industry, this is one of my favourite, and remarkably relevant, passages from James Patterson 🏹 “Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, and perhaps, even shattered” 🖤
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    At a time where covid has shaken up every industry, this is one of my favourite, and remarkably relevant, passages from James Patterson 🏹 “Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, and perhaps, even shattered” 🖤
  • The intensity in a backbend is like a dress rehearsal of how to confront fear in your life. You either can start to feel the fear, freak out, give up and quickly get out of the posture. Or you can feel the fear, welcome it, learn how to breath through it and keep on moving.. Although I’ve struggled with backbends my whole life, in my opinion, they are the most mentally powerful exercises in the whole yoga practice. They are so much more than just a bendy yoga shape!
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    The intensity in a backbend is like a dress rehearsal of how to confront fear in your life. You either can start to feel the fear, freak out, give up and quickly get out of the posture. Or you can feel the fear, welcome it, learn how to breath through it and keep on moving.. Although I’ve struggled with backbends my whole life, in my opinion, they are the most mentally powerful exercises in the whole yoga practice. They are so much more than just a bendy yoga shape!
  • I recorded this in the morning to work on my own alignment but decided to post it for people who are self isolating. If it gets one extra person on a yoga mat to do a self practice, it’s done it’s job 🙏💛
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    I recorded this in the morning to work on my own alignment but decided to post it for people who are self isolating. If it gets one extra person on a yoga mat to do a self practice, it’s done it’s job 🙏💛
  • After coming back to pharmacy after a 6 year break, it became starkly apparent to me how much of a gap there is in our systems approach to treating health. Patients continue to rely solely on popping a daily pill, without taking any other measure to address the underlying cause of their illness. There is no support for the patient and no integrative way to guide patients out of ill health. We give them a script, a script is filled at a pharmacy, and we leave them out on their own to figure things out for themselves. People know that food is important, but with over 100 different dietary theories, it can be difficult to navigate through all that information. The food we put on our plate, the health of our gut, how often we exercise, and how we deal with and manage stress all play a pivotal role in helping us heal. Sadly, this is often overlooked. @thefarmacyapproach focuses on treating patients holistically and gives them the support and step by step process to make healthy habits that will last a lifetime! . . . #healthyliving #nutrition #foodasmedicine #yoga
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    After coming back to pharmacy after a 6 year break, it became starkly apparent to me how much of a gap there is in our systems approach to treating health. Patients continue to rely solely on popping a daily pill, without taking any other measure to address the underlying cause of their illness. There is no support for the patient and no integrative way to guide patients out of ill health. We give them a script, a script is filled at a pharmacy, and we leave them out on their own to figure things out for themselves. People know that food is important, but with over 100 different dietary theories, it can be difficult to navigate through all that information. The food we put on our plate, the health of our gut, how often we exercise, and how we deal with and manage stress all play a pivotal role in helping us heal. Sadly, this is often overlooked. @thefarmacyapproach focuses on treating patients holistically and gives them the support and step by step process to make healthy habits that will last a lifetime! . . . #healthyliving #nutrition #foodasmedicine #yoga
  • One evening an elder Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us. One is fear. It carries anxiety, concern, uncertainty, hesitancy, indecision and inaction. The other is faith. It brings calm, conviction, confidence, enthusiasm, decisiveness, excitement and action”. The grandson thought about it for a moment and then meekly asked his grandfather. “Which wolf wins?”. The old Cherokee replied, “the one you feed”. . . Do your best to keep the calm.. We will all get through this 💛💛
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    One evening an elder Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us. One is fear. It carries anxiety, concern, uncertainty, hesitancy, indecision and inaction. The other is faith. It brings calm, conviction, confidence, enthusiasm, decisiveness, excitement and action”. The grandson thought about it for a moment and then meekly asked his grandfather. “Which wolf wins?”. The old Cherokee replied, “the one you feed”. . . Do your best to keep the calm.. We will all get through this 💛💛
  • The beauty in our own backyard..
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    The beauty in our own backyard..