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Urban Yoga Monkey: A post of the Asian Persuasion
My Asian genes have been expressing themselves quite strongly of late and I wanted to share how nourishing, warming and soothing for the tummy Congee is. Essencially its very slow cooked brown rice with vegetable stock or miso as the recipe below suggests. I was hit by the stomach bug a few weeks back and it’s left me with with a strong sensitivity- but one I’m actually learning alot from. I’ve never been a diet kinda girl but with a […]
Categories: Nutrition, Uncategorized • Tags: insights, yoga nutrition, yogic advice
Urban Yoga Monkey Insights: Urban Yoga experiments!
You are confined only by the walls you build Generally our mind has agenda-when we look, we see what we wish to see, identify the things we’ve experienced as they are most recognisable and familiar to us. Our way of ‘seeing’ the world is reinforced and in this way our conditioned mind tries to re-find/ re-live the same experience again and again. There s even a certain amount of comfort found in re living the same familiar experience. When we […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: beth, jot down, mental-health, person present, yogic advice
Urban spider spirit! No incy wincy here!
Just captured sight of a beautiful spider, hanging on in the middle of the burst of rain. Am seeing lots recently, and am enjoying their beauty and spirit In this Native American,–Lakota (sioux)–story the spider is a teacher of wisdom. Dream Catcher Legend Long ago when the world was young, an old Lakota spiritual leader was on a high mountain and had a vision. In his vision, Iktomi, the great trickster and teacher of wisdom, appeared in the form of […]
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Yoga practice insights: From hamstring hell to hamstring heaven-A series of videos designed to help those hammies!
Hamstrings are the most common area new students ask me if this yoga method can positiviely effect. The answer is yes! In response to the urbanyogi community, I’ve decided to make several short guided videos that focus on this area in particular, with special attention paid to the area around the hamstrings and how to get movement, energy moving through these area that can feel like breeze blocks! For those with very long and open hamstrings, please pay attention to […]
Categories: East London Yoga, Uncategorized, Urban Yoga Monkey Insights, Urban Yoga Monkey Videos • Tags: beth, east london, free yoga video, insights, urban video, Yoga Asana, yoga for beginners
