Interested in taking care of your joints & muscles as you age! The following 2 articles highlights the importance for our overall health to do just that - please click onto links below. 1. Women’s joint health: can collagen help? As we age it is common for individuals to experience joint issues due to wear and tear over a lifetime as well as an increase in inflammation. Musculoskeletal pain, arthralgia and arthritis are all more common in women, and their frequency increases with age. In some, a decline in women’s joint health appears to be associated with the onset of menopause.1 ,https ..read more

You may have heard me talking in class about the vagus nerve and some people have asked me to explain more about it. So here goes, as its rather complex, so will take a step back to first talk about the Autonomic Nervous System, which I also often mention in class, so you are really familiar with that now. The body has automatic functions like our circulation, digestion, metabolism and even our breathing. All these automatic functions (i.e. we don’t have to think about them to do them, the body naturally does its job of keeping us breathing, metabolising our foods & nutrients and pumping ..read more

Whether taking time out, exploring new places, relaxing, adventuring or just having a change of scene, holidays are a valuable and wonderful part of our lives. Unfortunately they can be marred by illness or discomfort. In this blog, guest writer and Homeopath Kelda White, shares her advice on keeping well whilst travelling or on holiday. Click the link below for full article which covers important information about: Gut Health & Probiotics; Nutrients for Immune System Boosting; Herbs for anti-microbial effects; and a basic Homeopathy Kit to take with you. https://tinyurl.com/cytoplanblog ..read more

What cause those snaps, crackles, and pops? Adapted from the book ,Your Spine, Your Yoga by Bernie Clark If you move, you may crinkle and click, creak and crack. You may groan and complain about getting old, but noises are a normal part of life and for many people, a part of yoga![1], A technical term for joint noise is crepitus, which is Latin for “rattle”.[2] The exact cause of these noises is uncertain. There are several possibilities. The first is simple friction; when two things come together, get stuck and then finally release, a sound is often created. An example is when you snap your ..read more

So here we are at that time of year when some of us are thinking about making a New Years Resolution. Or maybe thinking, what is the point, because a week or two later, you have already given up on those ideals. Well, this may be a time to deepen your resolve for something that has a true meaning for you, for your life as a whole. According to Yogic philosophy, the most effective means of training the mind is found in the Sankalpa. A Sankalpa is traditionally used at the beginning and end of the Yoga Nidra practice. Sankalpa (Sanskrit: सङ्कल्प) means an intention formed by the heart and mind ..read more

Did you know that your yoga practice may be reducing chronic inflammation and slowing down your body’s aging? Chronic inflammation has been so closely associated to accelerated aging that a term was coined to link the two: inflammaging. Mechanical stresses and mental relaxation that occur during your yoga practice have been found to moderate and even stop many of the causes of inflammaging. No wonder your friends tell you that you look so good! There is a lot more to yoga than maintaining flexibility! Want to learn more: please use this link to an informative article by Bernie Clark, Yoga Teac ..read more

Your eyes are at work from the moment you wake up to the moment you close them to go to sleep. They take in tons of information about the world around you — shapes, colours, movements, and more. Then they send the information to your brain for processing so the brain knows what's going on outside of your body. By far the most important organs of sense are our eyes. We perceive up to 80 per cent of all impressions by means of our sight. And if other senses such as taste or smell stop working, it's the eyes that best protect us from danger. Nowadays, we always seem to be looking at screens, TV ..read more

Connect to the energy of autumn for a healthy body-mind and spirit. How? there is much we can do to help balance our energies this season, especially during lockdown, you may have more time on your hands than usual; you may be realising that this time can be put to good use to help ourselves find the balance and do some good. So, here are 5 helpful tips to practice during this time, helping you to make this November a Nurturing one. 1. Align your energy with the seasonal energy of Autumn Go outside and observe nature, what is it teaching us? You will see that the leaves are changing, drying, d ..read more

ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE I first wrote this blog at the end of January and intended to post it then. As you know, another story came up as a matter or urgent interest, the possible threat of a pandemic of the Covid-19 virus. As this subject caught my attention, instead, I placed a Blog relating to HOW TO BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM which I hope you have read. So now, as we are a few months into the pandemic and our lives have changed beyond what we could have imagined at the beginning of the year, I am coming back to the ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE as a very useful and essential tool to help us navigate ..read more

Winter is always a good time to make an extra effort to boost your body’s natural capacities to protect and heal itself, especially through the immune system and the gut. With the interest now on the Corona-virus spreading world-wide, some people are possibly getting worried, how could this affect them? And, how can I help or protect myself and my family? There are still many unknowns about this virus but what is known, is how to protect yourself from this and the multitude of viruses we are exposed to in the course of our normal daily lives. As they say, prevention is better than cure. So, I ..read more