I love this image, it suggests “hugge”, the Nordic concept of Winter cosiness or comfort.  This sense of cosiness is just what we need right now.   Getting a bright, crisp day where we can go out walking is amazing.  Even if it’s cold, coming home to a hot drink then snuggling up on the sofa with cushions and blankets is hugge personified.   Except most of us are in Lockdown and can’t travel to find a nice walk.  The weather has been very wet and we’ve all become a bit too familiar with our sofas in 2020! We could practice self-care to find cosiness.  I ..read more

The Art of Vinyasa: Tuning our attention to the Breath a Workshop with Sarah Hatcher We all had a great time, and we would like to thank Sarah for taking the time to run the workshop for us. We got a lot out of it. We started off with Pranayama, and Sarah demonstrated several different ways to transition in to the various standing postures. Following on from working through the standing postures, we then moved on to learning how to work with the breath and the bandas, this allowed us to begin to work on the seated postures – Vinyasa’s. Sarah then explained and demonstrated in grea ..read more

Sarah Hatcher Andrea Lutz Rose Ann Mckean What do all these instructors have in common? They take the time to put on Yoga Workshops at Yoga Rose at the Nazarene Hall in Blantyre! We are so very fortunate to be able to run workshops with these ladies taking the lead. Our most recent May workshop with Sarah was a real hit with all the attendees. She challenged us to focus more and be mindful in our practise. She helped us get back to basics to improve our understanding of working with bandhas. This helped us to improve our Sun Salutations and asanas (postures), no longer were we going throu ..read more

Judi and Rose Ann are teaching together again – the best of both or double trouble, you decide…! We’re inviting you to escape the busyness of your everyday life and immerse yourself in yoga, deepening your asana & meditation practice, and enjoying some downtime amid the wild and glorious scenery of Strathspey and Cairngorm.  We’ll practice together every morning, and there’ll be afternoon and evening sessions across the weekend too. We’ll get together for dinner in the large sitting/dining room by the roaring log fire. We’ll even have a massage therapist for you too. But don’t worry ..read more

What happens when you can’t do the thing you love? 13 weeks ago I broke my ankle. I had just returned home from my Wednesday morning yoga class at Merchant City and opened the back door. Bang. I would like to tell you that something made me trip but in fact I just tripped over my own feet. The first thing I thought was, stand up, get a coffee and brush it off, but as soon as I tried to put pressure on my right leg I could feel straight away that something was wrong. One trip to Hairmyres Hospital later, and it was confirmed that I had broken my Lateral Malleolus (essentially the side of m ..read more

Yoga Backbending Fundamentals Backbending workshop Sunday 22nd April Workshop Times 10am to 12noon Yoga   1pm to 3pm Back Bending Our spines are an incredible combination of strength and flexibility – of Sthira and Sukha. Strong bones and large muscles give us structure and protect sensitive nerves while flexible ligaments and tendons allow the spine to move in all different planes. With regular backbends we can help to protect this wonderful balance by increasing mobility while strengthening the supporting muscles around the skeleton. Backbends can be broadly divided into three cate ..read more

Are you interested in Yoga For Hips Do you want to relieve hip pain, feel more comfortable when walking, more flexible when moving. Then book your Yoga for Hips course with YogaRose Yoga For Hips Hip Opener course Sunday 18th February For most of us, the groin muscles (adductors) tend to be tight, pulling the heads of the thighbones into the sockets. The thighbones are meant to be centered in the socket and stabilized by the abductors, which oppose the groin muscles. But when these abductors are weak and stressed, as they often are, the resulting imbalance causes gri ..read more