The second post in this series on privilege, ancestry, decolonising, forgiveness and responsibility!! Read the first post here: https://emsararose.medium.com/who-the-f-k-am-i-to-take-up-space-bfdef89d5033 Over my 40 years on this Earth I’ve often been uprooted. I moved around England a fair few times in my 23 formative years there, from my birth county of Lancashire…

The third post in this series on privilege, ancestry, decolonising, forgiveness and responsibility!! I’ve delayed and procrastinated big time with this piece. I kept thinking I knew what I wanted to say but would read or hear some new nugget of wisdom and need more time to process. I’d swing…

Peeling back the layers Yoga offers us the most amazing set of tools and practices to uncover and investigate our inner world. The yogic model of our anatomy reveals that the body is made up of layers, like an onion, that become more and more subtle as we peel them back. You have probably…

Throughout my journey teaching meditation in our community and online I hear many reasons that people find meditation difficult and a number of them relate to some ‘myths’ around what meditation is supposed to be like. What our experience should be or what our practice should look like! Here I’m…

Whilst the Western world’s portrayal of Yoga is one of creating shapes with our bodies (Asana) on a sticky mat, there is so so much that the system of Yoga can offer us. It is a state of being rather than something that we DO. …

Living close to nature in the beautiful High Country of Victoria, we are so connected to the seasons. Spending more time outdoors and less time in air conditioned transport and offices leads to a better understanding of the cycles of nature. Winter is a season that pulls me in different…

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it.” ~ Anna Taylor After a 10 day detox from Instagram I realised how much space I was filling up with scrolling, posting, responding, liking, commenting… scrolling. I was kind to…

My inspiration for this article came out of a conversation I had a while back about competitive Yoga. While people around the world, including in India, enjoy Yoga as a competition I personally feel that much of what IS Yoga is lost when it becomes competitive. Everyone and every body…

We live in a world where we can be constantly bombarded with sales for more stuff to make us better, fitter, happier, more productive (… like a pig in a cage on antibiotics… ok, ok I had to throw in a Radiohead reference there!). As a Yoga business owner, I…