Cooling Yoga Flow For The Summer
Journey Junkie takes the dusty road down the Rio Grande to Santa Fe… Spurs included!
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Hold onto your unicorns, Wild Yoga is back with a bang in April. The hush hush experiential outdoor yoga experience from Yoga Atelier is celebrating its second birthday with 5 more teeming fruitful chapters to get you unplugged and grounded.
As per usual details remain under wraps. There’ll be 5 sessions running from April 14 to August 11 at a top secret Bucks location to unplug.
Join us on your Wild Yoga adventure
Dates: Sat 14 April | Sat 12 May | Sat 9 June | Sat 14 July | Sat 11 Aug
See you bright eyed and bushy tailed!
Well ok ... one more exclusive session in collaboration with Chilterns Walking Fest at a different location and one for the whole Family!!
"The body whispers to you then it starts to scream"
As a teen I suffered horrendous period pains month after month.
Doctors said it was normal and put me on the pill, this already didn’t feel right for me… But what was I supposed to know, after all I’m just a teen... in pain.
After several years of feeling like a marionette to a synthesised hormone, complete with sugar coating. I felt enough was enough and had to do something, as I wasn’t feeling any better. The pain was getting worse.
Each month was filled with dread, as my 24 day cycle was a numbered sentence. How would my body react this time? Would I pass out at work again? I finally was HEARD by a GP and she took her time and run through a bunch of questions. She finally asked me if i’d heard of endometriosis, I said no. After a number of tests I was finally diagnosed.
The more I spoke to women the more I realised there where more of me. Young women suffering everyday… here! Through the pain in a funny kind of way it bonded us.
All this time I was on various hormone treatments, it played with my libido, my periods stopped, my weight and moods where up and down and I remember feeling “I wasn’t a real woman.” Everything that made me a women was being reformed, regurgitated into a dulled mould.
I wanted to work through things naturally and realised I don’t want to fit in to the cookie cutter of “societies, professional women role”. I never did!
Women don’t function like men, and heres where we’re getting it wrong!
There where 2 catalysts in my life, when I found yoga and when I learnt how the relationship with my body and surroundings, provided me with the chance to change.
It was all there I just had to listen!
I cant be anymore grateful to Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer a who run Red School.
I was re-educated to listen to my own body. I learnt to chart and respect how each “season” of my cycle had a different characteristic, it made me honour different parts of the cycle instead of fighting against it every month. Naturally stress dissolves, I allow myself to receive.
Here are some transformational teachings from Sjanie and Alexandra.
“It's a challenge to do less! We normally have a foot on the accelerator but our body through our symptoms like PMS or pain is telling you to slowdown.”
“To turn your attention inward...this is your cycle talking here”
“Listen to yourself!”
Not being attached to expectations people have on you, or even worse sometimes your own expectations! “The truth of your own experience, is to be on top of your game”
“You don't fight not sleeping, your natural circadian rhythm. Maybe for a bit you drink coffee, take drugs and stay awake but you soon start to feel crappy and can't sustain it. If you push through cycle by cycle you go out in the world with an empty tank.... Your soul, your energy will suffer. In your 20s you prob won't feel it … but in your 30s and 40s YOU FEEL IT”
"The body whispers to you then it starts to scream"
“Even if you try to slow down 1% in your life, I'm not saying to go to sleep every period. The world we live in is not set up in this way, we have family, work, laundry!”
“It soon makes you pretty uncool as you start to say no to things and do less. However you start to not care what other people think because you're taking care of yourself.”
I learnt that to execute change, it was not the case to just pop a pill now and then… this was a total lifestyle change and I want it more than anything!
Theses no way of sugar coating this one… IT TAKES COMMITMENT.
BUT THE UNSHACKLING BENEFITS ENDLESS!!!
EMPOWER YOURSELF and the women around you. Your daughters. Your mother. Your grandmother. Your friends. Your community! Through your menstrual cycle to menopause and beyond. Check out Red School
5 Poses For Your Visit From Aunt Flow
…you can even do in your bed!!
How to make change last beyond January!!!
During your time of the month its good to practice a supportive sequence and not like your usual 'yang’ vinyasa or hatha classes, to nourish and honour all thats going on in your body during this time. This short practice helps me month to month to ease bloating and pain, you can play at lengthening the time in any pose, add any other poses you like and even a yummy shavasana at the end.
Use pillows, blankets, cushions, even books as an addition to any props you may have at home. You can even do this in your bed... get comfy!
Supta Baddha Konnasana
Reclined Bound Angle Pose
5mins
Make this your throne and get comfy, make it higher or lower by using books or blocks under your bolster or more pillows.
Upavista Konassana
Wide Leg Forward Fold
3 mins
Supporting the lower back by sitting on the edge of a 2” lift of a blanket.
Paschtimottanasana
Forward Fold
3min
Supported by 2 blocks or books under the bolster.
Balasana
Childs pose
5min
This is my favourite pose when I’m in pain, I put a hot water bottle on my lower belly and a bolster or pillow to hold it in place, and I lye over it, this adds a small amount of heat and pressure on the belly.
Supta Baddha Konnasana
Reclined Bound Angle Pose
5min
Notice how this pose feels the second time, you can then extend the legs out to a supposed Shavasana.
Hope you enjoy this short sequence as much as I do
and recharge your batteries so you can go out and be YOU!
3 Unexpected Weeds You Didn’t Know About!
We also think its time to end youth homelessness in the UK!
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Keweko Skincare
Sustainable organic skin care with a conscience.
Committed to creating sustainable organic skin care, Keweko is the new ethical beauty brand on the block.
Not only are these products a delight for your pout, these eco-friendly packages of joy are designed to have minimal environmental impact.
We love the soothing aloe and bergamot toner for both men and women.
Gift ideas anyone?
Happy pits!
DIY Deodorant
Theres a lot of info on the web about the harmful chemicals in shop bought deodorants you can check out, and in my tried and tested quest to find something that works (so you’re not left smelling and loosing all your friends on this earth in one fatal day… )
My dear friend in Santa Fe shared this little gem, I thought to myself can it be true a natural deodorant that doesn’t make you smell and thats easy and cheap to make!!
YEP!
Heres how to make it:
1/4 cup bicarbonate of soda
1/4 cup cornflour
4 to 6 tbsp coconut oil
Essential oil (optional) 10 to 15 drops Lavender or Rose Absolute
Simple! Done!
Happy Pits!
