This book aspires to alight your imagination and inform your practice through the beautiful language of The Five Elements and Yin yoga.
Whether you’re using this book as a yoga practitioner or a yoga teacher, In My Element serves as an inspirational portal to developing practices exclusive to your unique bodies and minds.
5 Elements & Eastern Medicine|Yin yoga & Yoga therapy
Best Yin yoga poses for Spring
Posted: 26th April 2021
Spring Yin is all about harmonising the element that drives you forward again in life after the retreating energy of the Winter, the Wood element. In Chinese Medicine, the Wood element represents new beginnings, drive and fresh ideas. Keep your Wood energy in balance with these Yin yoga poses which target the Liver and Gallbladder meridians.
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Health & Wellbeing|Meditation & Mindfulness
Planning for the future when you can’t make plans
Posted: 15th March 2021
Planning for the future in a world suspended in limbo can be a frustrating experience. But how much does our deep-rooted need to map out every aspect of our lives really serve us? Can we learn to be less rigid with regards to controlling the future and open up to the flow?
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Fitness 101|Health & Wellbeing
Proprioception & Interoception: Making sense of it all!
Posted: 17th February 2021
If proprioception works with helping us to move with grace through the external world, interoception is the key to harmonising our journey through our inner landscape. Look at how these lesser-known senses contribute to our overall sensory experience and the implications for this in our movement and mindfulness practices.
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This Yin yoga sequence for the water element focuses on nourishing the kidneys and decompressing the spine. The Water element allows us to retreat into the world of our dreams and emotions, as we use its stillness to reflect upon the inner workings of our being through practices such as meditation and Yin yoga. As we learn to quieten down the noise of our external environments, we, in turn, attune our ability to listen to our truths.
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If, you have a friend or a family member that is passionate about yoga, surfing, or even both! Then the good news is that they’re easy to buy for when Christmas comes around. There’s a whole wealth of cool yoga gifts and ocean essentials out there, just waiting to get snapped up in your shopping basket.
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Everyday Yoga Q&A|Yin yoga & Yoga therapy
A working from home yoga practice
Posted: 19th October 2020
Essential yoga poses to help to relieve the tensions that come from working from home on your computer. This working from home yoga practice includes poses that you can do whilst at your desk, on your lunch break, and a short sequence that you can do to counteract the effects of a day slumped in a chair at a screen.
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My much-loved dhal recipe packs out this one-pot meal with extra nutrients with the inclusion of spinach, kale and sweet potato. And has coconut oil over ghee to up both the good-fat content and flavour. This dhal recipe serves four, but it freezes up great as a midweek dinner go-to
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