The Yoga Project

Absolutely AMAZING wedding weekend! Can’t believe I’m now Mrs Dawson! So happy!! Look at my gorgeous family!!! Thicket Priory best wedding venue ever!!!! Thank you Holly from photography for these amazing pictures! So many more to choose from as-well, and quicker turnaround ever on getting them back to us! And a delight to work with on the day too!! 10/10! Make up and hair credit to and stunning seasonal and local flowers from

Can’t thank Harrogate cheese board enough for their absolutely amazing cheese wedding cake! The most amazing cheeses and they decorated and delivered to our venue so we had a few less things to think about! Staff always so lovely in the shop and free tasting session at the beginning all made them the obvious choice!!

Hand made lavender eyebags with removable washable covers!!! £8! All profits going to Versus Arthritis Charity! Grab one while you can!

Versus Arthritis Charity! https://www.versusarthritis.org/

Eye pillows really are fab way to enhance you Sivasana experience ! I was sceptical until I tried one but once you have you never go back! Not only does the increased darkness and relaxing lavender scent help you sink that little but deeper into relaxation but the gentle pressure on the eyelids stimulates the vagus nerve which is key in helping restore that vital balance to our fight or flight system's.

Join me for online yoga 7.30pm-8.30pm Tuesday evenings!!! DM me for details!!!

Action for the day... intermittently check where you are holding tension throughout the day!
Is you Jaw clenched?
Are your shoulders up by your ears, are your fingers or toes gripping?
Is your abdomen tense? What part of your body is clinging on to tension?
If you are completely relaxed then Bravo!!!
But I bet you that more often then not you will find some sneaky unhelpful tension somewhere in your body!

Take a breath and see if you can exhale and release!
Check in again and see if it's snuck back!!
By increasing awareness we can take more control of these areas.

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My wonderful mum has offered to make some of her lovely lavender scented eye bags (with removable washable covers) if anyone would be interested in purchasing one? They will be £8 and we've decided to donate all of the profits to the Versus Arthritis Charity! https://www.versusarthritis.org/

Eye pillows really are fab! I was sceptical until I tried one but once you have you never got back! Not only does the increased darkness and relaxing lavender smell help you sink that little but earsier into relaxation but the gentle pressure on the eyelids stimulates the vagus nerve which is key in helping restore that vital balance to our fight or flight system's.

No pressure at all but if anyone interested let me know!!!!

I very often see people with neck and shoulder pain. Often this is treated with massage and stretches but maybe not as often with neck strengthening exercises. If pretty much any other body part is sore a physio will, alongside other things, almost always gets you strengthenig the muscles surrounding the sore area. And the neck is no different. Lets get our necks stronger and help banish that pain!

Strengthen your Neck This is a short video that demonstrates an amazing exercise for strengthening the often forgotten about muscles that support the front of our necks.Great for...

Good morning everyone!
I've just rodecorded this short 10min wake up practice for you to fit into your morning routines. This is designed for those of you who have that sensation of feeling like a retired cart horse when you wake up! Feeling stiff and achey from the toes to the head? Give this a go and be transformed into a race horse!

Warm up & Wake up flow A short 10 min chair based practice to wake up your joints from the tips of the toes to the crown of the head. Breathe in the energy and Breathe out the tire...

The Yoga Project is Now live streaming Online Yoga 7.30-8.30pm Tuesday evenings!
Message me for info!!

With my maternity leave at an end and with a new exciting career path opening up to me back in the NHS I've spent a few days sat in front of a computer screen doing some online learning and WOW have I been reminded how absolutey horrific prolonged sitting is for our bodies! I mean I tell people all the time to get UP and MOVE but nothing confirms the negatives more then experiencing it! My neck is in bits and my bum muscles feel like they've checked out on holiday!!!
So with that in mind I've recorded a few short bum activating clips for you desk workers to enjoy..... I beg you to give those sad muscles a bit of action, they will love your for it!!!

I plan on adding some neck energisers soon too.....
The key with these is to focus on isolating the hip joint and not allowing the back to be the hinge point!!!

Thank you so much to all those who have messaged me with such positive feedback about my first online chair yoga class! I have managed to record another slightly shorter class for you to have a go at!
Add some varierty to your practice- your body will love you for it!!

Chair Yoga 2 In this 30min chair yoga class we explore some arm strengthening and another balance challenge option, with a little self massage for some added extra feel ...

How mindful is your downward facing dog?

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Is there a right or wrong way to do a Downward Facing Dog? What is mindful practice? What is the perfect doward dog position? To me these questions are all linked. To me a mindful practice is really thinking about what different parts of your body are doing in a yoga pose, and exploring different ways of moving your body in these poses. I also think its about honouring the body you have been given whilst putting it into a particular pose. Everybody has different levels of flexibility -sometimes we can increase our flexibility with yoga practice, but sometimes no matter how hard we try we won't be able to make our bodies create the 'instaperfect' yoga pose. This can be because of the way our skeletons are made and no matter how hard we try stretching won't change bony position. It can be becuase our connective tissue is simply less stretchy then the person doing the splits on the mat next to us! I am on the stiffer side of the connective tissue flexibilty scale, definitely no hypermobility here! I always used to feel (and sometimes when I see bendy insta poses) that this put me at a disadvantage in the Yoga world. I would think that my downward dog wasn't as good as it 'should' be because my heels don't touch the ground and my knees aren't perfectly straight. However, I have learnt that trying to force my body to do this will likely compromise other areas of my body and potentially make my lower back and pelvis vulnerable to injury. In this video I explore both spinal flexion and extension and the position of my pelvis in an all fours position and also in downward facing dog. Looking at what happens to my spine when I try and get my heels to the floor and my knees straight. Now I'm not saying that any of these different 'shapes' for downward dog are wrong or right, but I think the important thing is being aware of what is happening to different parts of my body in each shape and moving intentionally into them rather then focussing on the end result. So that no matter what our level of flexibility we are practising with enquiry rather then letting our egos lead the way.