The yoga world still seems to be buzzing with excitement as, according to a report in the Huffington Post May 8th 2013, the number of people practicing yoga is on the increase. A whopping 30% in the past 4 years, by all accounts, according to a survey by the ‘Yoga Journal’ magazine. This means that the number of Americans practicing is somewhere in the order of 20 million! I suspect that it is much higher than this however, since many seniors practicing would probably not hav

For the experienced yoga teacher. To have a student with some bias is an absolute delight. It means that we can bring forth all of our invested study and understanding of how to help a specific population to help an individual. For the prenatal yoga student.... well they may be completely unaware of what that means, and the study hours, money and practice involved. After investing way more than a decade in formal study, not only of asana but esoteric yoga, I recognize that ma

I come from a family of good cooks. As children, my sisters and I were in the kitchen from a fairly early age, taking turns every Sunday afternoon to make assorted cream cakes, scones and cookies. Luckily, my parents have a keen sense of adventure, and so, we took long summer vacations travelling across Europe enjoying the sights, and of course, the foods. As an adult, I travelled much further afield, and my passion for food and smell, and how it can make us feel, has remaine