LET’S CELEBRATE MFML’s 2024 SPRINGTIME YOGA CHALLENGE TOGETHER! Join Founder Kat Farrants and Challenge teacher, Margi Young for a LIVE Q&A on Zoom! Thursday 25th April 2024 // 7 – 8 pm (BST) This is the perfect opportunity to ask all your yoga questions in real-time, live about the SPRINGTIME Yoga Challenge! You may want to know: Tips and techniques for forming a home yoga habit Am I doing it right? How to make sure you’re practicing safely when you practice yoga at home. You may have questions about yoga, doing yoga at home, or about MFML or our community. It’s a nice chance to meet the ..read more

SOMETHING SPECIAL HAPPENS WHEN YOGA SHAPES THE WAY WE LIVE. HELEN KRAG EXPLORES PRACTICAL WAYS YOGA CAN INSPIRE POSITIVE CHANGE.  What draws you to practise yoga? Is it the very act of being on the mat, in your body? Or the benefits that practising yoga brings? Maybe it’s both!  In his book The Truth of Yoga, author Daniel Simpson suggests that by refining awareness of inner experience, yoga is both a method and its outcome. His reference is the sage Patanjali:   “Yoga is to be known by yoga, and yoga itself leads to yoga.   He who remains steadfast in yoga alwa ..read more

Yoga provides valuable support in pregnancy. This article by Helen Krag offers suggestions of prenatal online yoga classes and ways to adapt and accommodate your practice. Pregnancy is a special time when the body undergoes significant changes. It can bring a heightened awareness of the need to take care of our physical, mental and emotional needs. The practice of yoga supports us to do that, embracing what our body is able to do, whilst honouring the magical transformation into motherhood. Our Yoga for Pregnancy classes are designed and taught by specialists in prenatal yoga, including: Niki ..read more

Sacred Energy Arts practices to express through the fire energy of summer! Sunday 23rd June | 4-6pm (BST) BOOK NOW Do you wish you had more energy to get you through the day?  Do you fall asleep in the afternoons?  Do you wish you could bounce out of bed in the morning like you did in your 20s?  Would you like to find more vitality and liveliness in your life? Did you answer YES to any of the above? This workshop is what you need. We are delighted to be hosting senior teacher, Sifu Matthew Cohen. He’s a life-long yoga, qigong and martial arts practitioner from California wh ..read more

Maintaining physical wellbeing in pregnancy is essential for both mom and baby, yet for many, it might be very confusing to understand how to safely adapt their pregnancy yoga online routine to their changing body.  Integrating practices like yoga and Pilates can offer great benefits, as many movements and patterns incorporated in prenatal-specific sessions are meant to make pregnancy more comfortable and to prepare both physically and psychologically for birth.  Indeed, research shows that practising pregnancy yoga online regularly through all the trimesters not only reduces the ri ..read more

Online Course: Two Part Pelvic Balance Course Part 1 – Saturday 20th April & Part 2 – Saturday 6th July 9-11am UK time Join Catherine Annis for this fascinating two part course on Pelvic Balance. BOOK NOW Have you ever wondered why one side of your body is easier to access than the other in your yoga practice? Or why some “hip openers” are more challenging than others? It’s all related to the balance of your pelvis, and how the web of ligaments, tendons and muscle tissues in this key area work together to support and connect your hips, lower back and legs. Register for the full course here ..read more

Online Course: Two Part Pelvic Balance Course Part 1 – Saturday 20th April | 9-11am UK time Structure, function & connections Join Catherine Annis for part one of this fascinating two part course on Pelvic Balance. BOOK NOW Have you ever wondered why one side of your body is easier to access than the other in your yoga practice? Or why some “hip openers” are more challenging than others? It’s all related to the balance of your pelvis, and how the web of ligaments, tendons and muscle tissues in this key area work together to support and connect your hips, lower back and legs. Sign up for pa ..read more

Yin Yoga & the Chinese 5 Elements: An Online Workshop with Norman Blair Wednesday 22nd May – 7.30-9.00pm (BST) Join Norman Blair for this online Yin Yoga workshop and find out more about the Chinese 5 elements and how they can enhance your life and yoga practice. BOOK NOW Everything connects and everything changes: this is a truth. One place we can see and experience this connection and change is the Five Phases which comes from Daoism and Chinese philosophy. Water feeds wood wood is the fuel for fire fire becomes earth earth eventually could be metal and metal contains and enriches water ..read more

AS WE JOURNEY FROM WINTER INTO SPRING, WE MAY SEEK RENEWAL AND AWAKENING THROUGH OUR SPRING YOGA PRACTICE. HELEN KRAG SHARES 5 CLASSES TO SUPPORT THIS SEASONAL TRANSITION.  “As the days get longer and lighter, we might experience a sense of ‘opening up’ after a period of winter hibernation.”  Clive Fogelman, Moving into Spring.  Ah, those longer, lighter days! They bring so much promise as Mother Nature throws off the covers of winter slumber and bursts forth with new growth. In the Northern hemisphere spring is, for many of us, a time of renewal and rebirth. Whilst the calend ..read more

JUST AS WE NEED TO EXERCISE FOR OUR PHYSICAL HEALTH, WE MAY BENEFIT FROM REGULAR RITUALS AND PRACTICES FOR OPTIMAL MENTAL HEALTH. FIND OUT WHAT WORKS FOR YOU! Mental health is multi-faceted and means different things to different people. The World Health Organisation defines it as: “A state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realise their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community. Mental health underpins our individual and collective abilities to make decisions, build relationships and shape the world we live in.” World He ..read more