I have a special mantra, given to me by a Yogiraj that I repeat to change myself. To stop habits that are no longer serving. To make me different. To make me more perfect. Better than yesterday. For a while I was ok with it, good with it even. But nothing changed. My habits stayed [...]
Category: Parenting
Mirror Mirror
We place so much emphasis on what is outside. How we look, what we are wearing and what the scales say. But we only ever see a reflection of ourselves. If we don't know where to look for it, we often miss our true beauty. I had a conversation with a few women the other [...]
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Why Your Kids Need Yoga
Kids are already flexible right? They can touch their toes? And aren't they experts at staying in the moment? Why would kids need yoga? And where is yoga going to get them? It's not going to improve their chances of becoming a professional athlete or computer whizz or improve their grades..... so what is the [...]
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Materialism Is Just A Call For Help
We are all just looking for peace. That place where the mind stills and we feel content with who we are and all we have. What I find in meditation can be satisfied for hours, maybe minutes maybe seconds by submitting to our wants. To the calling of the mind to buy this, to buy [...]
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Free Meditation For Children
Would you love your children to meditate - but don't know where to start? Do you think your children would benefit from a practice that takes them into their true selves instead of constantly looking outside themselves for their answers? Are they worried, anxious and stressed out and you don't know why? This New Year [...]
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How To End Your Bad Habits In 4 Easy Steps.
What would it look like to stop analysing what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong? How would it feel to not have a list at the end of each day assessing our successes and failures? To close our eyes each night with the joy of moments in our lives instead of [...]
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What Are You Going To Be When You Grow Up?
My five year old asked me that just the other day. Without prompting of any kind. I looked at him, quite seriously, and said, "A Writer." I said, "What about you?" He said, "A Pokemon collector." Now you might not see this as a great career option, but let's face it, there are people who [...]
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How To Sneak Meditation Into Your Children’s Routine So They Calm Down
We know the benefits of a regular meditation practice right? (If you don't you can go here and here to check them out.) So why wouldn't we get our children to do it too? Maybe you've asked them to and they have jokingly sat in lotus position OM-ing and then taken off? That's often what [...]
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Five Ways To Stay Zen Instead of Yelling
If you lose it occasionally, find yourself yelling at a loved one, the kids or strangers who have cut you off in traffic - that's pretty normal. But if you find yourself yelling daily, feeling totally exasperated and worked up on numerous occasions throughout the day, then there is a lot you can do about [...]
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It Is Not Motherhood That Exhausts Us
Yesterday I ducked into the chemist (and when I say ducked I mean like a slow, snail-paced crawl with toddler in tow) for some iron tablets. I'd been feeling depleted. Just this week. Energy low. It happens. It happens when you have a rotation of two children in your bed most nights. It happens when [...]
