Yoga Kala

01/01/2025

Happy New Year 🎊

2024, has for many of us, brought its share of challenges and opportunities for growth. Through it all, yoga reminds us to pause, breathe, and reconnect with our inner spirit.

This New Year, let’s keep it simple and focus on cultivating health, positivity, and mindfulness. Whether you’re beginning your yoga journey or returning after a break, my classes are designed for mature students, creating a welcoming space to move, breathe, and embrace the wisdom of your body.

Join me in 2025 to explore yoga in a supportive environment where every pose is tailored to your needs, promoting strength, flexibility, and peace of mind.

Here’s to a year of renewal, resilience, and self-care. Let’s step forward together with intention and grace.

Wishing you all a healthy and positive 2025 🎊

12/12/2023

"In the simple act of walking, we see the grand spectacle of the world unfolding before us." - Thich Nhat Hanh

21/12/2022

A little show of my appreciation for those who made my final yoga class of the year.

It is a real delight to share space with you.

I created 2 lotion bars:

'A walk in the woods' is a delightful blend of various butters, green tea, chamomile and cedar oil.

'Just a little more' has the same butter base but with argan oil, apricot kernel oil, macadamia nut oil, bisabolol and arnica.

Hopefully these beautiful fatty acids will nurture their skin and protect it from this particularly cold winter. Looking forward to their feedback.

Thanks Yoginis for a great year.

Shim 🧡

11/02/2021

As a family we have supplemented vitamin D for many years now...this is thoughtful reading

Over 300 Professors and Doctors Call For Increased Vitamin D Use To Combat COVID-19.

As the evidence grows for the importance of vitamin D for COVID-19 prevention professors, doctors and scientists have collectively written to Governments and medical authorities to encourage recommending its use for prevention. The letter, which is available at https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html also shows what they, the experts, take themselves and recommend. Collectively, they recommend between 2,000 and 4,000iu a day, based on the evidence. I take 3,000iu you day.

What you need depends on your blood levels. Their recommendation is eat and supplement whatever you need to achieve 25(OH)D serum levels over 75nmol/L ((30ng/ml), which is a widely endorsed minimum with evidence of reduced COVID-19 risk. In the UK a level below above 50nmol/l is considered adequate, but this is not enough to reduce your risk significantly. Sun exposure is a major source of vitamin D so if you live far from the Equator, especially in winter, you are going to need a lot more.

In a nutshell, they say that higher vitamin D blood levels are associated with lower rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Higher D levels are also associated with lower risk of a severe case (hospitalization, ICU, or death). Intervention studies (including RCTs) indicate that vitamin D can be a very effective treatment. Many papers reveal several biological mechanisms by which vitamin D influences COVID-19. Causal inference modelling, the intervention studies & the biological mechanisms indicate that vitamin D’s influence on COVID-19 is very likely causal, not just correlation.

Along with vitamin C, I would recommend everyone to take vitamin D to help prevent covid and minimise duration and severity of infection. That’s what vitamin D experts and medics all over the world are saying.

Find out more here -https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html

01/01/2021

'Concentrate on the heart. Enter into it ; go within deep and far as you can. Gather all the strings of your consciousness, roll them up and take a plunge and sink down. A fire is burning there, in the deep quietude of the heart. It is the divinity in you - your true being. Hear it's voice, follow it's dictates' The Mother

Happy New Year 💜

10/11/2020

I adore teaching yoga - you get to hang out with lovely peeps, share energy and move in a way that connects you to something greater than ourselves and makes you feel darn good.

During the first lockdown l decided to stop...no classes...no zoom. I fortunately had a great lockdown 1 experience, gardening, studying and being with family.

Face to face classes then resumed briefly....and now back into lockdown.

With encouragement from my students l taught my first Zoom class today.

I am so grateful to them for having my back and nudging me out of my comfort zone. They are a great bunch and it's a pleasure sharing space with you...💜...see you next week x

30/10/2020

Daily mantra....

it's been almost 6 yrs of wondering what's d title of the song that i've heard frm my frnds compilation cd.. thanks fredz galleto, now i hve a peace of mind....

14/09/2020

Oh yeah...we're back on mat!

Classes start back at the Parish Rooms on Arbrook Lane Tuesday 22nd.

I've moved downstairs so we can safely be 2m apart.

Tuesday's class is full but there is an option of Friday evening 7.30-9pm if there is enough interest.

So if you'd like to give it a go and still want to get out on Friday night let me know 💜

15/06/2020

I watched this live on Instagram and it was awesome...fellow yogis please watch and listen 🖤

Kallie and Jonelle, yoga teachers of colour, have a raw and honest conversation about the roots of yoga, impact of colonial thinking and cultural appropriati...

26/04/2020

Hey lovely yogis, how are you all doing? These are strange days...hopefully you're staying safe and well.

I have days when I'm full of energy and focus and others when l feel I'm going in circles not really 'accomplishing' anything...but that's ok...

The day is punctuated around meal times and my boys needs. But there are moments of clarity and real joy, have you noticed how clean everything is? The air?

I'm fortunate to have an allotment and it's teaming with life - bees collecting nectar from the apple blossom, ants, butterflies, slow worms...newts in the pond. Everything is 'zinging' with life. It has always been so, but...these days, this time...l can really feel it.

Prana.

Thank you to those of you who have downloaded the audios - l hope they're helping.

Om Shanti 🧡