Keeping cool with Yoga
Yoga has a number of different practices that can help to cool you down as temperatures soar. Mental, physical and breath control can all...
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- Jun 10
- 3 min
Hospital Stays - 3 simple ways that Yoga can help
A hospital stay is inevitably stressful, no matter how kindly the staff. But it is possible through Yoga to create a self-support...
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mphelstrip
- Apr 24
- 3 min
How to manage Osteoarthritis pain using Yoga Therapy
What causes Osteoarthritic pain? Osteoarthritis affects the protective cartilage that normally allows the end of your bones to slide...
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mphelstrip
- Feb 13
- 1 min
Valentine's Day - take a moment to celebrate all the love in your life
Love comes in all shapes and sizes, can be found in the most unexpected places. Valentine’s Day is as an opportunity to celebrate the...
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mphelstrip
- Jan 30
- 7 min
Hairdressers, haircuts & mental health - what do they have in common?
Hairdressers, haircuts and mental health - is your regular haircut more valuable than you realise? During the first big lockdown in the...
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mphelstrip
- Dec 24, 2021
- 4 min
How to survive your holiday shopping
How can we best enjoy our seasonal shopping trips, whether online or to a physical location? At this time of year, our thoughts often...
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mphelstrip
- Nov 16, 2021
- 3 min
What is truly important in your life?
We continue to navigate our way through the pandemic. This is a time to consider what truly matters to you. Meditation can be used as a...
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mphelstrip
- Sep 10, 2021
- 4 min
To pee or not to pee - how to avoid those embarrassing leaks
TV adverts for panty pads - designed to absorb those unintended little leaks that can happen when you cough, laugh or sneeze - seem to be...
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mphelstrip
- Jul 18, 2021
- 3 min
Airport Asana and Poolside Pranayama – Top Tips for Holiday Yoga
As we enter the holiday season, many of us will be getting on a plane and spending a week or two in a hotel. A welcome break. Yoga class...
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mphelstrip
- Jun 28, 2021
- 2 min
Problem Solving - 'doing nothing' helps
How many times have you wrestled with a seemingly insurmountable problem, only for the solution to miraculously appear when you least...
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mphelstrip
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
7 Ways to Shift Your Mood
I had what I call an ‘Eeyore’ day yesterday (from the donkey character in Winnie the Pooh, who is always mildly depressed about...
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mphelstrip
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
3 Quick Ways to Boost Energy with Yoga
External conditions affect our minds and bodies, creating blockages and diversions of our energies. DRUVA Yoga Therapy enables an...
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mphelstrip
- Mar 28, 2021
- 6 min
Covid-19 vaccination - what happens?
5 suggestions for a smooth Covid-19 vaccination process: CHECK location and parking arrangements/ bus times etc TAKE your NHS number and...
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mphelstrip
- Mar 1, 2021
- 6 min
Zoom safely - Top Tips for Yoga Teachers
This Blog has been written for teachers of Yoga, Dance, Exercise – any activity where small to medium sized groups of students are being...
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mphelstrip
- Feb 12, 2021
- 2 min
Valentine's Day Re-Invented
14 February is Valentine’s Day, celebrated in many parts of the world as the day on which we send a card to the person we love, or would...
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mphelstrip
- Jan 26, 2021
- 5 min
Sugar - the good, the bad & the ugly
We all have a sweet tooth – we are genetically disposed to like sugary stuff - but some of us feed that sweet tooth more than others....
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mphelstrip
- Jan 14, 2021
- 2 min
Is your child getting enough exercise?
31% of children in England did less than 30 minutes of daily exercise in 2020. More than half of children and young people in England did...
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mphelstrip
- Dec 29, 2020
- 7 min
Osteoporosis? 5 ways yoga can help
Who gets Osteoporosis? Men and women can get osteoporosis, but it is considerably more prevalent in women, and generally begins at a...
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mphelstrip
- Nov 26, 2020
- 2 min
Let's celebrate our friends - today
We often take our friendships for granted. We assume that our friends will be still be there if we phone tomorrow rather than today,...
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mphelstrip
- Nov 11, 2020
- 5 min
Joyfully mindful, or mindlessly anxious?
I walk along the pathway, lightly scuffing through the fallen leaves of red, orange and gold that collect at my feet. The sky above is...
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