Diagnosed with AuDHD just days ago, I am feeling both validation and grief for the versions of me who struggled without understanding why. My diagnosis is helping me make sense of friendships, overwhelm and the harsh labels I gave myself. Here, I share how yoga grounds me, how teaching anchors me in community, and why greater awareness matters. This is the beginning of learning to meet myself with kindness, and creating space for other women navigating life with autism and AD

This week’s theme explores yoga as a returning to the heart, inspired by Nischala Joy Devi’s The Secret Power of Yoga, our new Sangha book. We’ll reflect on Sangha as community and shared spiritual enquiry, and on the idea that yoga invites us to gather our attention back into body, breath, presence and the quieter awareness within.

A generous late-summer retreat lunch filled with seasonal colour and flavour. I’m sharing the vegetarian, coeliac-friendly recipes from Gathering in Gratitude, including roasted vegetables, vibrant salads, balsamic tomatoes and fudgy kidney bean brownies.

Finding the right yoga teacher can make an enormous difference to your experience of yoga. You might attend a class that other people seem to love, yet leave feeling uncomfortable, overwhelmed or simply unmoved. That does not necessarily mean yoga is not for you. It may simply mean that particular teacher, style or environment was not the right fit. Every yoga teacher brings something different into the room.

Yoga classes can sometimes seem expensive compared with fitness classes, but the hour spent together is only the visible part of the work. Behind each class are years of training and personal practice, ongoing study, careful planning, venue hire, insurance, equipment and administration. This article explores the hidden work behind yoga teaching, and how yoga philosophy can help us think about fair exchange, value and sustainability.

In the closing verses of Chapter 2, Krishna offers two powerful images: the person who is awake while others sleep, and the ocean that remains steady as rivers flow into it. These teachings invite us to explore desire, inner fullness and the deeper peace that becomes possible when we are no longer carried away by every thought, feeling or longing.

Yoga can look deceptively simple from the outside. A room, a mat, a few shapes, perhaps some breathing and a quiet rest at the end. But beneath all of that, something deeper is taking place. As a yoga teacher, I am never looking for the most flexible person in the room, the neatest posture or the student who can follow every instruction perfectly. What matters to me is that you feel safe enough to listen to yourself, curious enough to explore, and welcome enough to retu

Yesterday, I wrote about some of the fruits my yoga practice has brought into my life: greater calm, more self-compassion, a deeper awareness of my body and the ability to feel less scattered. Yet beneath these changes lies something even more significant. Yoga has given me a value system. It offers a set of principles I can return to when I am making decisions, navigating relationships or trying to understand my own thoughts and behaviour.

The fields do not produce their harvest overnight. What appears in late summer began months earlier, with seeds placed into dark soil, followed by patient tending, uncertainty, sunlight, rain and time. Our yoga practice is much the same. We may come to yoga hoping to become more flexible, ease an aching back or find a little relief from stress. These are worthy reasons to step onto the mat. Yet the deeper fruits of yoga often appear more quietly. They ripen slowly, almost

In verses 64 to 67 of Chapter 2, Krishna shows us a way back from restlessness. By noticing the pull of attraction and aversion, we can begin to meet life without being carried away by every thought, feeling or desire. Like a boat held steady in changing winds, yoga helps us remain connected to our deeper wisdom.

This week in sangha, we continue our discussion of The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. Each week, I will do my best to summarise the parts of the book we discuss. This week we are studying Chapter 2 Verses 62 and 63.

After hosting my first weekend yoga retreat and spending a day volunteering at an exotic pet refuge, I found myself reflecting on work, rest and attention. From single-tasking and service to shared purpose and the surprisingly radical idea of a proper lunch hour, these experiences offered gentle lessons for life as a small business owner and home educator.

Thinking about booking a yoga retreat? Before you do anything rash, here are seven very good reasons to reconsider, including uninterrupted rest, delicious food you did not cook yourself and the unsettling possibility of coming home feeling better.

I could not have asked for a more wonderful group of women to share my first weekend retreat at Laurel Park.

Known as the Strawberry Moon, June's Full Moon takes its name not from its colour, but from the season of ripening. Traditionally, it marked the time when wild strawberries were ready to be gathered. A quiet reminder that nature has its own rhythms of growth, abundance and harvest.

This week in sangha, we continue discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verse 61. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.

This week in sangha, we continue discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verse 60. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.

This evening brings a Blue Moon. Despite its evocative name, a Blue Moon isn't actually blue. It is simply an extra full moon on the calendar; a reminder that sometimes life doesn't fit neatly into our plans, schedules, or expectations. Perhaps that is why I find Blue Moons so compelling.

This week in sangha, we continue discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verse 59. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.

This week in sangha, we continue discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verse 58. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.