Thrive Yoga Blog

Class Notes... Why We Bring Our Hands Together in Prayer Position in Yoga Class

This Week's Recipe... Courgette Soup

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Grey Seals 

This Week's Musical Offering... Namaste by Maneesh de Moor 

And I'll Leave You With... a bit about 'In Real Life' an exhibition by Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern

Class Notes... Rediscovering My Back Arch

This Week's Recipe... Butternut Squash, Mushroom and Spinach Warm Salad

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Take part in The Big Butterfly Count

This Week's Musical Offering... Summer Fields by Rudy Adrian

And I'll Leave You With... a bit about the OM Yoga Show in London in October, and a fun way to get there

Class Notes... The Five Elements in Yoga

This Week's Recipe... Baked Beets with Coriander, Mint and Pistachios

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Rivers and Bowls of Flowers 

This Week's Musical Offering... End of Sky by Hang Massive

This Week's Video... The trailer for the upcoming BBC series 'Seven Worlds One Planet'

Class Notes... Saluting The Sun and The Moon

'52 @ 50' no 52... A list of my 53(!) explorations

This Week's Recipe... Vegan Toffee Apple Cake

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Butterflies and Moths to see in June

This Week's Musical Offering... 'Full Moon' by Ludovico Einaudi and 'Surya Namaskar' by Michael Mandrell and Benjy Wertheimer

This Week's Video... Learn the sequence to the Moon Salutation (Chandra Namaskar) with me in this short video

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'52 @ 50' no 52... A Bee-keeping Demonstration at Albury Vineyard, Surrey

This Week's Recipe... Carrot and Coriander Soup

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Wildlife Photography by Jess Findlay

This Week's Musical Offering... Through the Summer Fields by Floating Lights

This Week's Video... Eckhart Tolle reminds us how to let go of worry and become more at ease

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'52 @ 50' no 51 - Adventures in Boston

This Week's Recipe... Holy Trinity Louisiana Gumbo 

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Botanical greetings cards painted by my niece

This Week's Musical Offering... 'Be More Kind' by Frank Turner

This Week's Video... Wise words from a young man living in the Arctic with 110 dogs!

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This Week's Class Notes... Alignment Tips for Side-Angle Pose (Parsvakonasana)

This Week's Recipe... Spring-Green Tart

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Making a bee bath and some extraordinarily fabulous tulips

This Week's Musical Offering... 'Sky Mantra' by Subway Bhaktis

This Week's Video... A Short Clip of Honey Bees Drinking

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This Week's Class Notes... An evocative poem called 'On A May Evening' by Lucy Burrow

This Week's Recipe... Vegan Lemon Cake

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... My top 5 bee-friendly, long-flowering perennials to plant in your garden now

This Week's Musical Offering... 'Singtree' by Solar Quest

This Week's Video... 'Let Nature Sing' from the RSPB - a beautiful but sad reminder about the decline of our native birds, with some wonderful hand-puppetry

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This Week's Class Notes... Adjusting Your Alignment in Warrior 2 Pose

This Week's Recipe... Celeriac Soup

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Propagating Pothos Plants Part 2

This Week's Musical Offering... 'Cloudy Sunrays' by DJ Taz Rashid

This Week's Video... the new Nike advert - inspiring you to do what you want to do - even if it's crazy!

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This Week's Class Notes... The Anatomy of Your Ribcage (part 2)

This Week's Recipe...  Apple and Raspberry Bircher Muesli 

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Bee Flies - strange creatures in my garden!

This Week's Musical Offering... '20 Minutes' by Carbon Based Lifeforms

This Week's Video... Playing Out - a short BBC video about a project to get children playing outside

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This Week's Class Notes... The Anatomy of Your Ribcage (part 1)

This Week's Recipe...  West African Peanut Soup

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Ferns Unfurling

This Week's Musical Offering... Breathing Space by Sacred Earth, plus a guitar quartet playing 'Cuban Landscape with Rain'

This Week's Video... Brexit Yoga - to make you smile

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This Week's Class Notes... The Kleshas - 5 obstacles to living a peaceful and fulfilled life

This Week's Recipe... Carrot, Spring Onion and Poppy Seed Soup 

This Week's Mother Nature's Magic... Propagating Pothos Plants

This Week's Musical Offering... Lubbock Lullaby by Peter Phippen and David Roll

This Week's Video... Doga - inspiration for doing yoga with a canine friend

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