Winter mornings can feel especially heavy, even as the days start to lengthen after the solstice. I’ve always struggled with the darker months, but over the years I’ve built a simple morning routine that helps me feel calmer, steadier, and a bit more myself. From affirmations to yoga and resisting that first-thing phone scroll, these small practices make all the difference. If winter weighs on you too, you might find a little comfort here.

Explore my personal journey with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and how yoga practice have helped me ease winter anxiety. A story of commitment, inner strength, and finding light during the darker months

Discover the most common headstand mistakes yogis make—and learn simple tips to fix them. Improve your alignment, strengthen your core, and practise headstand safely.

Headstand isn’t just a yoga pose — it’s a lesson in confidence, resilience, and finding joy in the challenge.

Think you need to be super strong or flexible to do a headstand? Think again! In this post, I’m busting the most common myths and sharing why headstands are more about technique, patience and confidence than raw strength or bendiness

I practise Ashtanga yoga, a set sequence of postures once believed to be ancient, but actually shaped by modern influences. At first, I thought the magic was in the system itself — the sequence, the poses. But the real magic lies in the commitment to your own practice: showing up, breathing through the hard moments, and slowly transforming over time. Yoga helps you come home to yourself — and that, to me, is true magic.

Discover how my daily Ashtanga yoga practice helped me cope with stress, anxiety, and exhaustion—and reminded me of my inner strength.

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Let’s face it—most of us have dropped off our yoga practice at some point. Life gets in the way, motivation dips, or something just...

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As I mentioned in my last blog post, I was a sickly child and wasn’t allowed to participate in PE or other physical activities in primary...

People who know me now are often surprised when they find out that I was a sick child. Because of the job I do, many assume I’ve always...

In April 2023, I picked up a knee injury. There wasn’t any specific incident that caused it, but I believe it developed over a couple of...