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**"The Breath of Life: How Slow Breathing Can Boost Your Health and Well-Being"**
The Power of Slow Breathing: A Simple Practice for Better Health Breathing is an action that we do every moment of our lives, yet we...
barbaradancer
Mar 244 min read
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Working with Pain Conditions
It is estimated that 30-50% of medical issues could be related to chronic pain with around 10-15% of that group experiencing moderate to...
barbaradancer
Mar 55 min read
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Finding Calm in the Collective Stress of Christmas
This week is one of the most stressful weeks of the year… There are cards, emails and presents for many and various people to be...
barbaradancer
Dec 22, 20243 min read
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Why Social Support is Key to Surviving and Thriving with Chronic Conditions Like Long Covid
Positive social interaction and support is a cornerstone of well-being, particularly for individuals grappling with chronic health...
barbaradancer
Aug 29, 20242 min read
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Inner Insight: Harnessing Interoception to Master Emotions and Mindfulness
Interoception, the awareness of internal bodily sensations, forms the cornerstone of our emotional experiences. Every emotion we feel is...
barbaradancer
Jul 10, 20242 min read
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Nurturing the Soul: Exploring Introspective Practices for Spiritual Connection
In the hustle and bustle of our modern lives, the interest and desire for a spiritual dimension has become an essential aspect of...
barbaradancer
Feb 1, 20242 min read
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The Importance of Sound and Chanting
In yoga therapy we make use of all the different tools available to us through yoga, and on many occasions, due to the way the health has...
barbaradancer
Dec 22, 20232 min read
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Brain or body? Ways to support your nervous system
What is the most complex known matter in the entire universe? Your brain! This highly complex organ provides all of the essential...
barbaradancer
Sep 6, 20234 min read
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Yoga - a Unique and Empowering Way to Work with Trauma
Yoga can be a unique and empowering way to work with trauma; in terms of addressing both the behaviours and the experiences relating to...
barbaradancer
Jul 22, 20234 min read
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Summertime Sizzle: Nourishing Your Body with Healthy Eating
As the sun shines brighter and the temperatures rise, summertime offers an incredible opportunity to revitalize our bodies and embrace a...
barbaradancer
Jun 15, 20232 min read
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Managing Anxiety
Dealing with anxiety is hard. But there are things we can do to manage these tough feelings. And there are two main strategies that yoga...
barbaradancer
May 22, 20235 min read
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Arthritis - treating arthritis with yoga
I have a personal interest in arthritis. I developed OA (osteoarthritis) thumb and it's a good, although painful way to understand more...
barbaradancer
Apr 2, 20234 min read
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The Key to Collecting Information and Planning Yoga Therapy
I was chatting with a fellow yoga therapist (we were both trainees at the time) about the challenges we were facing as inexperienced...
barbaradancer
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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What does it take to be a yoga therapist?
Yoga therapy is a part of yoga that’s becoming increasingly known and popular. With books such as The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel...
barbaradancer
Jan 18, 20233 min read
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's)The Lasting Effects of Early Trauma
There are times when we are working with a one-to-one yoga student who seems to be driven by underlying factors which are affecting them...
barbaradancer
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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The Importance of Finding Our Balance for the Health-Disease Process
According to Ayurveda, an imbalance of the doshas* lies behind all illnesses. When the doshas differ from one’s individual...
barbaradancer
Oct 6, 20222 min read
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The Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis and Breakthroughs in its Understanding.
The period of intensely hot weather in the summer was hard for everyone but particularly so for those who have Multiple Sclerosis (MS); a...
barbaradancer
Aug 10, 20222 min read
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How the Brain Helps and Hinders in Stressful Times
Sitting there inside your head is about three pounds of the most complex material in the whole of the known universe. All the more reason...
barbaradancer
Aug 10, 20223 min read
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2.7% of the population, 1.7 million people, have Long Covid in the UK
The statistics are daunting… 1.1 million people report symptoms adversely affecting their day-to-day activities and 322,000 report that...
barbaradancer
Aug 10, 20222 min read
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