24 October

RESET YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH 12 POWERFUL PRACTICES

Reset your nervous system Reset your Nervous System Priya Vassen offers calming, rebalancing and energizing tools to reset your nervous system. These include pressure points, body tapping, resting poses like child’s pose and various other movement practices. In a perfect state of health our internal systems are held in a condition of intelligent, dynamic balance […]

19 October

Water Initiation Ceremony – Becoming The Medium

Water Initiation Ceremony – Becoming The Medium This Water initiation ceremony is all about healing, joy and ceremony in the idyllic Mountains of Franshoek. Join us for a weekend of bliss at Unami Mountain Retreat where the element of water will be celebrated and embodied in ritual and ceremony. Shamanic wisdom will be honoured and […]

12 January

5 TIBETAN YOUTH POSTURES TO PROMOTE LONG LIFE

They’re easy to do and a brilliant home based exercise solution. When doing these postures, make sure your focus is always on your breath. Flexibility of the body increases flexibility of the mind. 1. Stand up straight, stretch your arms out to the side. Look at your left shoulder. Spin yourself around to the left […]

03 September

HOW POSTURE & MOVEMENT PATTERNS AFFECT OUR EMOTIONAL STATES

Using the raw materials of space, time, energy and the human body we can choose to dance, slouch, saunter, swagger or shuffle. But what gives some people elegant and beautiful posture while others barely move enough to get from A to B? “Each one of us speaks, moves, thinks, and feels in a different way, […]

29 January

FEEL INCREDIBLE WITH THIS AYURVEDIC MORNING RITUAL

Get a new take on early mornings and feel incredible with this Ayurvedic Morning Ritual Side-swiping the alarm clock, emitting a groan and negotiating a pathway to the bathroom with closed eyes, while holding up a fragile head, is routine practice in many households. Considering that getting out the wrong side of the bed produces […]

07 December

5 DAYS OF YOGA

5 days of yoga Yoga is one of the most ancient practices known to mankind. It is a means to reconnect to ourselves and transform body, mind and spirit. Here are 5 yoga postures for you to try out, one for every day. Each posture has a benefit: BALANCE, BACK ACHE RELIEF, SLEEP, DIGESTION & […]

04 May

WHERE TO YOGA IN CAPE TOWN

JOELLE SLEEBOS YOGA Where to – yoga in cape town Catch this passionate yoga sculpt, suspension yoga and vinyasa teacher at YogaLife, myUTOPIA and Virgin Active Silo. City Bowl & Atlantic Seaboard YO YOGA A relaxed Bikram and Vinyasa yoga studio for healthy, happy bodies and minds in Black River Park Observatory LOVME Treat your […]

23 March

CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT EDUCATION – bi annual conference in Cape Town

The practice of conscious movement techniques like yoga and pilates can provide a doorway to a deeper understanding and compassion for the self. Engage yourself in some conscious movement education and enhance the way you move through life. Immersing yourself through regular practice or a teacher training has the potential to change your life. Every class […]

04 October

5 SMART MOVES FOR HEALTHY JOINTS

5 SMART MOVES FOR HEALTHY JOINTS Most people, as they get older, feel a change in the way their body moves. Getting out of bed in the morning just seems more difficult, there might be a bit of a groan sitting down and getting up, many complain of feeling creaky. When and if this happens […]

02 September

SOUL WALKING THAT CURED OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

SOUL WALKING THAT CURED OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER Who would have thought that walking would become the therapy needed to cure a disorder that seemed to have no diagnosis and no known treatment? Every morning before she left the house Lisa Berman was compelled to touch everything around her four times. She would continuously go back […]