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Comfort Zones and Comfy Pants

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Want to know where the magic in life happens?
I’ll tell you where it doesn’t happen: it doesn’t happen in comfy pants on the sofa.
It happens in The Stretch Zone.
The place outside your comfort zone.
The place where you feel the scareyness but take a deep breath and do it anyway.
The place where things can go wrong,… [Continue Reading]

How to make time for yourself ( for yoga, for whatever!)

29-11-2011

When I first got bitten by the yoga bug over a decade ago in London I had a very busy career at the Financial Times which I loved, but which (I can see now) I gave too much of my time and energy which left my life very out of balance. Something needed doing late… [Continue Reading]

7 things you need to know to make resolutions that stick!

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I don’t believe In New Years resolutions, but I do believe in resolutions.
I believe we all have the capacity to start over anytime. To wipe the slate and to choose different things for ourselves whenever we make that commitment to reach for something better for our lives. And that can happen on the 1st January,… [Continue Reading]

Sun Salutations – Moving Meditation

Jo Eng

This is a blog post written by Positive Balance student, busy mum of 4, and part-time Positive Balance admin fairy Jo! Jo is easily one of the nicest people I have ever met and I am thrilled that she is going to be doing her Yoga Teacher Training in 2012 to take her practice to… [Continue Reading]

Time to Shine

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I popped home to the UK in October, and went to visit my very good friend Lizzie : we met on the first day of Uni and were inseperable from that day. We had a super-fantastic and thoroughly awesome day hanging out together, made all the more special by the freaky coincidence that she and… [Continue Reading]

Either you count, or nobody counts

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It’s been a crazy busy couple of weeks, you know how it is in the run up to Christmas! I have been juggling my diary frantically with all my wonderful smart coaching clients working around the inevitable reschedules that happen at this time of year.  At the weekend I realised that I had rescheduled out… [Continue Reading]

Why New Years Resolutions SUCK!

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Due to the miracle that is the internet I am writing and scheduling this email to you from Kuala Lumpar airport as I make a veeery flying visit home to see my Mum and Dad. I know many people would think it was madness to go 12,000 for such a short… [Continue Reading]

Liquid Luck

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I am secretly a Harry Potter junkie. I love what J K Rowling has achieved. I love that her first advance was just $1500 and she was rejected by over a dozen publishers. I love that she had faith in what she was doing and that she is now worth gazillions. I love that she… [Continue Reading]

My 40 Splendid Truths Of Being Grown Up.

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My good friend at home just sent me this photo in my birthday card. We are about 20, very drunk and laughing our heads off. Wow…I look so young! I also cannot help but notice that I am voluntarily wearing a crop top.
It’s my 40th birthday on Friday (thank you, I know I don’t … [Continue Reading]

Interview with Karen Braund – Positive Balance’s Monday morning Intermediate yoga teacher

Karen Braund - Positive Balance Yoga Teacher

How did you come to yoga?
I’ve always been the sort of person that likes to keep fit and to be healthy. I was a regular at the gym, but I hadn’t tried a yoga class before. My first introduction to yoga wasn’t all that inspiring, actually. I tried a very gentle class at first… [Continue Reading]

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