In this blog I am laying out how to prepare your body for a return to the longed for opening up of our worlds. The last thing you want to feel is you are having to haul your body around OR ignore what it’s telling you, as you plough on regardless. As an aside, do…
Yes we are in lockdown again, yes it’s tough and yes our bodies maybe grumbling more than we would like or maybe we are grumbling at our bodies and how they look and feel! But no, that doesn’t mean we give up and no it doesn’t mean we can’t be proactive and positive to make the…
It’s been many months since I last wrote, to share my thoughts and insights. This morning, as I began to focus on writing to you, I was asking myself why it had been so long since I’d put finger tips to keyboard? As I pondered, it turns out there are many reasons, complex and perhaps…
We are here in June, six months into our year. A year that so far, could never have been predicted to be the one that it has been. Regardless of how you envisaged investing in your health during 2020, there will be few who will have successfully side stepped this curve ball, unaffected by…
There is much to be gained from moving and walking in terms of improvements to our mental and physical health. However, we can move and walk about freely and repeatedly inside and out, without purposefully challenging our bodies in ways that could advance our toe, foot and ankle strength, flexibility and turn, balance reactions….
Most of us have our favourite exercises to which we easily default. We often like to do them because an easy option feels, well, like an easy option. What I am challenging you to this month (as well as to myself) is to think about an exercise which you regularly avoid or thoroughly do not…
“Schooooools out for summer…” So here we are in the middle of the summer regardless of whether the weather is our friend or not! Here are some of my current favourite exercises to keep our bodily parts more limber and lithe. Give them a go to uncover possible imbalances between your left and right…
Our spring days are longer brighter and warmer now and with it can come more dynamic, prolonged and varied movements and activities for our bodies. All of which I would positively encourage you to do. However, have a thought for whether your body is as ready as your mind and spirit! What have you spent…
We’ve had just over a couple of months of short days and long nights. Though for some it may feel a great deal longer than that. For many, the idea of hibernating brings utter joy while for others it can bring a sense of despondency, disorientation and loss. The often grey days that darken by…
The sea change with summer morphing to autumn is upon us. I am mentally refreshed from the summer break but a little sluggish with the old physical jerks due to the disruption of my usual routine. It’s getting the balance right that can be so challenging. Sometimes we get it just right with how much…
