By Stephanie Achar I could tell you how chewing your food improves your IBS symptoms, or how you could lose weight if you stopped watching TV or your iPhone during meals. Instead, I would like to share with you my top 5 tips on how to eat mindfully so you can enjoy food, have plenty of it and live in peace with yourself. 1. Take the time to eat I visited Paris recently and noticed a habit that I lost touch with after living in NYC and London. Busy Parisians were taking the time to have lunch in cafés, restaurants and brasseries, enjoying not only their food but also their friends and colle ..read more

We are delighted to introduce you to our upcoming 21 Day Yoga Challenge.   In this fast paced world it’s hard to find the time or discipline to connect with our inner selves. A 21 day practice gives you the space to find yourself again, bringing positive, healthy energy into all areas of your life. Open yourself to the possibility of transformation in your life, your mind and your body.  Each day brings a new opportunity for growth. Learn how to embrace it, and use your practice to reflect on all aspects of yourself.  Change is happening all ar ..read more

Transitions in yoga, and life, can be challenging. When we learn to transition with grace, control and precision in our physical practice it affects our life off the mat, bringing more confidence into our lives. On the mat we note our progress as we master new asanas, but often don’t take the time to focus on the fluidity as we release from one pose and prepare for the next. Graceful  and controlled transitions in harmony with the breath are just as beautiful as the final pose.   How we treat transitions is reflective of how we move through life. Is it just a means to an end or do w ..read more

By Mariel Witmond In a world where stress seems to rule our lives and we feel like we have no control over the direction we are going in, it’s time to wake up to the power of breath. Breathing techniques are now being embraced by people across the world for their infinite benefits and I’m delighted to be holding a workshop at PYC with ‘the breath guy’ Richie Bostock. In sanskrit the yogic breathing practice of pranayama is translated as “extension of the life-force” stemming from the belief that we are born with only so many breaths, so the slower, longer we can learn to breathe, the long ..read more

by Silvia Lopez Herrero There are pivotal moments in life when we most need perspective. The space to connect to our intuition and gain clarity on our direction through this life. And so it was that I found myself spending last Christmas in India on a 15 day silent meditation retreat. I was apprehensive but as they explained: “The silence allows one to sink into a deeply peaceful state of mind.” The focus of the retreat was to study the last three limbs of Yoga- Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, according to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Approximately 2,000 years ago, Patanjali outlined a path int ..read more

by Alexandra Taylor I doubt that there are many people who have escaped the hype around “mindfulness”, “meditation” and “mental wellbeing” the past year. But unlike other momentary buzzwords and questionable detoxes, these ideas are not just passing fashionable trends. In fact, they are based upon practices which are thousands of years old. The benefits of meditation are no secret and can positively affect every part of your being: mind, body and soul. A regular practice can have real, physical impact such as changing brain composition, reducing inflammation and relieving bodily pain. Studie ..read more

When you take a break from yoga, coming back can be a challenge. In many cases, students don’t stop practicing because they wanted to stop, but because practice got sidelined by something else. Perhaps you went on holiday, got ill, had a big deadline at work or had a baby. Perhaps you feel too busy or too stressed to make it to class. For many of our wonderful students, our studio at The Power Yoga Company is a sanctuary. It is the place where we come to focus inwards, away from hectic London life. As a yogi, if you feel too stressed to come to yoga, yoga is proba ..read more

At PYC, we’re introducing a new class to complement your Power Yoga practice: Dharma Yoga with Alix Inness. Where Power Yoga focuses on strengthening and grounding, Dharma Yoga focuses on opening and elevating. Where Power Yoga flows dynamically, Dharma spends more time with a single pose. They are perfect partners: coming to a Dharma class will open more space in your body to go deeper in your Power Yoga practice. Alix Inness Dharma Yoga is named after Sri Dharma Mittra, born in 1939. Before he became a teacher, Dharma spent 10 years studying with his Guru, Sri Swami Kailashananda a.k.a. Yo ..read more

By Alix Inness “A devotional practice that emphasises good health, a clear mind and a kind heart.” ~ DYCNYC Dharma Yoga is named after Sri Dharma Mittra, a classical Hatha-Raja Yoga Master, born in 1939, who devoted fifty years of his life to the direct experience and dissemination of Yoga as a holy science. Dharma Mittra learnt from Sri Swami Kailashananda i.e Yogi Gupta, who was one of the great sages of modern India and a complete master of all nine forms of yoga: Hatha, Raja, Kriya, Jnana, Japa, Yantra, Laya, Kundalini and Bhakti Yoga. Sri Dharma Mittra spen ..read more

  Born and raised in Bergan, Norway, Fredrik has always been passionate about health and well-being. He is a trained firefighter and personal trainer, and completed our 200hr teacher training this year. Fredrik recognised through yoga that change starts from the inside and out. With a strong focus on the breath and a love of inversions, you’ll leave his class feeling grounded and more confident on and off the mat. We caught up with him at the studio. How did you get into yoga? Two or three years ago a good friend of mine dragged me into his yoga class to show me that it wasn’t just all w ..read more