At a recent leadership course I attended (GLAM – fully recommend), the facilitator, Avril Henry, referred to the concept of the importance of creating a ‘Third Space’ as a tool to enhance life work harmony in the lives of busy [...]
Last year I taught an eight week Relax & Restore course for staff in the community Services industry in Canberra. Six people working long hours in very demanding positions, with equally demanding home lives to maintain.My plans were to deliver [...]
Over the last month I have been attending a leadership workshop with some amazing women, mostly from Defence. These women are dynamic and successful, and their response to me as a yoga and meditation teacher is, “I can't possibly sit [...]
Conclusions Practising gratitude doesn't stop my monkey mind from doing somersaults and back-flips when I'm not looking but it does seem hold me in its loving arms and prevent me joining in the frivolity. It is early days but it would appear that finding reasons to be grateful for what [...]
Join me on my 21-day experiment to road-test a felt experience of gratitude. Gratitude has been attributed with some pretty powerful guns in the world of personal and professional transformation, and once again I find myself curious about the veracity of these claims. Is [...]
Day 1 conclusions: The practice of meditation on love, mantra and anchoring doesn’t stop the fear reaction but it does change the response.Setting the intention of practicing and blogging the results has brought a different quality to my observation and [...]
Are you feeling tired and stressed but don’t have enough time to relax? Are you a stress athlete? Are your students or clients exhibiting characteristics of being anxious and/or tired? When we are stressed or anxious our autonomic nervous system [...]
Have you ever been sailing along triumphantly, feeling like you have a handle on this boat called life when suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, an ancient grief rises from the depths of your ocean and threatens to swamp your boat [...]
I have spent a lot of time feeling lonely and isolated, not feeling the love in my life. I have found that meditations like this one from my book A Journey to Peace through Yoga, help me to feel love and [...]