I am pleased to announce that following Easter, I have added a new daytime women's yoga class to the schedule.

The session will be held on Monday mornings in the Community Room at Tesco from 11.15am until 12.15pm.

Full details and on-line booking can be found here

In this morning's meditation class (Meditation & More - held monthly) I invited everyone to become aware of their back. An often overlooked area of the body. So much of our lives are spent 'forward leaning'.

(Above image Convento del Carmine)

"Maybe I would move to Italy, after all..."

(Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert / Bloomsbury Publishing plc)

The above is taken from one of my favourite books and one that has become something of an icon amongst those who've read it. Whilst not suggesting you consider moving to Italy...well, not unless you really want to, why not consider the next best thing - a yoga retreat?

I'm having one of those days.  The one where you question everything and just wish that there was more honesty and transparency in the world.

(Image copyright: Hazel Haddock 2015)

“The modern woman is a blur of activity.  She is pressured to be all things to all people.  The old knowing is long overdue”   [Introduction: p4 Clarissa Pinkola Estes]

Women Who Run With The Wolves (WWRWTW), from which the above quote was taken was recommended to me more than 20 years ago – before my eldest daughter was born.  It was suggested to me by my wonderful yoga teacher.  What I didn’t know at that time was that it would become ‘the book’ that gave voice to so much of my inner being and helps me to convey the message I want to express right now.

The theme of this blog was inspired by two occurrences.  The first inspiration came from a recent Well Woman Wisdom class in which yoga belts were being used as a support in Janu Sirsasana (Head to Knee posture).  The second inspiration follows up on the western / cowboy theme touched on in an earlier offering - Adventures in Borderland Anatomy (it's kinda nice when there's a sequel don't you think?)

As many of you will be aware, I read - constantly.  I'm never that far removed from anything printed and can't contemplate not having a book or my Kindle in a bag wherever I go.  Time spent sitting is time spent reading (apart from when I'm meditating that is).

A book started to appear on my Facebook timeline about a week ago and I admit that at the time, I just kept scrolling.

Then, almost like divine intervention, I decided I needed to find out more and that's when Code Red stood for more than an alert of something dangerous happening.