Recent Articles in Thrive Yoga Lifestyle Blog

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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An Article About The Benefits of Jumping To Prevent Bone Thinning

This Week's Recipe... Vegan Spaghetti Bolognese  

This Week's Musical Offering... Balasana by Bjorn Lynne

This Week's Video and Mother Nature's Magic combined... A beautiful 3 minute animation about the life of flowers

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Some poems about loving and living and slowing down

This Week's Recipe... Griddled Pineapple with Passion Fruit 

Mother Nature's Magic... Insects painted by my niece 

This Week's Musical Offering... Anahata by Alex Theory and Shiva Rea

This Week's Video... A very funny video of a couple trying Partner Yoga

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52 @ 50 no. 50... Learning to Crochet

Class Notes... The Meaning of 'Hatha' Yoga

This Week's Recipe... Lentil and Harissa Soup

Mother Nature's Magic... Snowdrops

This Week's Musical Offering... Ha-tha by Chinmaya Dunster

This Week's Video... Beautiful Snow Art by Simon Beck

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Class Notes... the significance of the number 108

Mother Nature's Magic... the Big Garden Birdwatch

This Week's Recipe... Parsnip, Leek & Coconut Gratin with Lentils and Wilted Greens

This Week's Musical Offering... Hari Om by Nisha Narsai

This Week's Video... a little piece of advice from Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey

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The Difference Between a New Year's Resolution and the yogic equivalent, a Sankalpa

Mother Nature's Magic... a new feature here on the Blog - this week the Landscape Photographer of the Year Exhibition

This Week's Recipe... Red Ratatouille Risotto

This Week's Musical Offering... Heart's Awakening by Parijat

This Week's Video... a reminder about why we practice yoga

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52 @ 50 no. 49... Going Away to Winchester

This Week's Recipe... Avocado and Parsley Pesto Spaghetti

This Week's Musical Offering... Coming Home by Chinmaya Dunster

This Week's Video... a short anatomy animation featuring the Piriformis muscle and how it gets a good stretch in Eye of the Needle Pose (Sucirandhrasana)

Some lovely pictures to celebrate winter and the solstice and to remind us to rest up a little over this busy festive period

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52 @ 50 no. 47... Music at the Yehudi Menuhin Hall

52 @ 50 no. 48... My first Espresso Martini!

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

This Week's Musical Offering... Adi Mantra by Saravtar

This Week's Video... An animated video about Mindfulness

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Class Notes... The Fourth Niyama - Svadhyaya (Self-Study)

This Week's Recipe... but you can't eat it! A winter flowering plant pot to brighten up your patio

This Week's Musical Offering... Salut d'Amour by Elgar, played by Benjamin Baker

This Week's Video... 'Take a Seat' with David Attenborough at the Climate Change Conference

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