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For this newsletter we pick up where we left off on the last one. We were looking at tools and skills that yoga can offer. One of those is that we learn to deal with the "afflictions", which prevent us thinking clearly.These specific notes come from the discussion notes from a workshop where the theme was "Body Image and Relationships with Food". The concept of how our thinking can get clouded is applicable to us all in one way or another, although the actual examples given h

If you’ve ever imposed a lifestyle change on yourself, whether it be around food, drink, smoking, or exercise, you’ll know that it doesn’t always last. But yoga takes a different tack. Rather than impose, yoga can change us from the inside. Just last week one of our students was saying that he’d gone off the idea of having a red wine that evening, following a backbend class. Not that there’s anything wrong with red wine, but the student just had a feeling that the wine might