Swimming in Oils
My kitchen and bathroom cupboards are full of different oils – to sip, eat or smooth onto skin for the better. I’ve used them for years, yet have only recently discovered ‘oil-pulling’ and it’s been a...
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Editorial - Lifestyle
It Started with ‘Om’
Of all the experiences I had on my ‘big trip’ to India, staying in an ashram in the remote Himalayas, it was the many hours of chanting which turned out to be the most lasting and transformative. Of c...
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Searching for Stillness
How many times do you hear friends and colleagues saying ‘I’m so busy’ followed in the next breath with ‘I need to switch off’. Or words to that effect. Maybe it’s that life seems to be speeding up. C...
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Are you drinking enough (water)?
Ever since my gran told me as a teenager that drinking water would give me beautiful, clear skin I’ve been trying, and most often failing, to sip the prescribed 6-8 glasses or 2 litres per day (depen...
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Perfectly Balanced
A few weeks ago, I was teaching a morning yoga class and we were practising tree pose (for non-yogis, this involves standing on one leg, bringing arms up above the head). We were all wobbling around a...
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Free Your Breath
Through all the years I’ve been trying to stay healthy by eating well, exercising, taking vitamins, attempting to meditate, it’s only now I really understand that breathing properly is the simplest tr...
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