I have being working online with a private client who’s been coming to me for a number of years. Due to her changing needs we decided to switch our approach to her yoga practice and try a more yin approach. This has been so successful for her, that it inspired me train in yin yoga.…
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Bernie Rowen-Ross tells us in some folk tales, there is a belief that Oester the fertility goddess is celebrated as a bringer of hope for good harvests and long summer days. In the Christian calendar, Easter is a celebration of Christ rising on the third day – to the believers this is a sign of…
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If so, Bernadette Petrie hopes that learning about the Stockdale Paradox will give you the motivation to have faith, get real and feel glad on the other side. I’m under no illusion that we still have some way to go to regain global normality, yet I have faith that the future will be very bright…
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With summer just around the corner, many of us will look to shed a pound or two, or simply aim to eat more healthily as the warmer days approach. Founders of The Dietarian, Lee and Claire Prentice, are on a mission to support the health of people across Scotland. They deliver nutritious, home cooked, calorie…
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Regular readers will know I’ve always thought of massages as an indulgent luxury, ranking them somewhere between manicures and mud wraps on my ‘frivolous uses for perfectly good money’ scale. So it was with some hesitation that I went along for a reflexology treatment at Gullane-based Sunshine Sole. . Ringing the doorbell on the brightly-painted,…
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Lockdown or no lockdown, 2020 changed the way we dress and shop forever. Now lounge-wear is considered a staple, whether you’re on a Zoom-call, lounging on the sofa watching Netflix or running errands. Just as quickly as staying in became the new going out, dressing down became the new dressing up, and so, our obsession…
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Ayurvedic counsellor and psychotherapist Bernie Rowen-Ross encourages us to live mindfully in 2021. Here it is, 2021! There is a lot of promise in the air, and so much to be grateful for. I was gazing at the setting moon on new year’s eve morning. It was freezing, but the cold didn’t keep me inside,…
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As a life coach and writer, Bernadette Petrie tells us ‘judgement’ is always the marker that reveals how she is experiencing loving this thing called life. They say you teach and write about what you need to learn, and this certainly is the case for me. I fall flat on my face more times than…
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At the beginning of every year I offer my yoga students the opportunity to set a Sankalpa. In Sanskrit, the ancient classical Indian language, Sankalpa means ‘an intention formed by the heart and mind’. A statement or vow you create, which you promise to commit to. This year I made a promise to myself to…
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