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.

A glass here and there, something I instinctively felt good drinking long before I fully understood why. And over the past month, thanks to a lovely friend who gave me some grains, I’ve started making my own milk kefir at home, and honestly, it has felt like the final little piece of my peri-menopause puzzle. Since drinking homemade kefir daily, I’ve noticed surprisingly significant changes.

This week in sangha, we continue discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verse 57. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.

Most people notice it at some point. The spine doesn’t move quite as easily, the hips feel tighter, and there’s a general sense of stiffness that wasn’t there before, even if you’re still relatively active. It’s easy to put this down to ageing, but what’s really changing is the behaviour of the connective tissues in the body. And you do not have to 'put up with it'!

On 1st May, we meet the full moon. We are not yet in the height of summer, and not yet in the softness of early spring, but we find ourselves in that in-between space where things are no longer just beginning, and not yet fully formed.

This week in sangha, we continue discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verse 56. 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 55. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.

In May, my yoga classes at The Pod will be moving into new homes. Saturday mornings will be held at Little Harrowden Village Hall, and Tuesday evenings will move to Isham Village Hall.

Today’s new moon rises in Aries, the first sign of the zodiac and the point from which everything begins again. If Pisces was the dream, the dissolving, the softening at the edges… Aries is the moment we open our eyes and decide what we are going to do with it.

This week in sangha, we continue discussing The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwaran. We discussed Chapter 2 Verses 46-49. Each week, I will attempt to summarise the parts of the book we discuss.

This month, I invite you into the element of air, and into something even more refined than that - space. This is the place of the heart. Not just the physical heart, but the energetic centre of Anahata. The space where breath moves freely. Where we meet ourselves and others with a little more gentleness. Where we begin to soften the edges we have been holding so tightly.