PARIVRTTA SUKHASANARevolved Easy Pose This pose is a warming pose. After bridge pose, take a deep inhale; as you exhale, engage your bandhas and come to boat pose – navasana before moving into a seated cross-legged position – sukhasana. Close your eyes and observe your posture, ensuring your spine is straight. If not, pop a…

Remembering Mind Body Soul Columnist Bernadette Petrie. Last issue, our mind body soul columnist Bernadette (Bernie) Petrie returned to writing her column despite living with stage 4 lung and liver cancer. Sadly, just before Christmas, she lost her battle with this terrible disease. As well as working together, Bernie was a friend, and during a…

DNDAYAMANABHARMANASANASunbird Pose Also known as Balancing Table Pose you can practice this pose after Cat Cow. Stay in Table Top Pose, inhale, engage your core, lift your right arm and left leg, gazing down or forward, exhale and come back to Table Top Pose. Inhale, lift your left arm and right leg, exhale and come…

As we age or encounter challenges, our friends become increasingly essential, serving as our circles of light, says Bernadette Petrie. Hello, dear reader; it feels good to be writing this column again, after three years of extracts from my book, Permission to Shine. Thank you to the editor for selecting chapters for publication, allowing me…

PASCHIMOTTANASANASeated ForwardFold Pose After continuing with your asana practice, come to sitting, making sure you find your sit bones, stretch your legs out and bring them together, and ensure your spine is tall. Inhale, stretch your arms up, lift, exhale and fold forward from the hips. Gaze at your toes or legs and stay for…

Bernadette Petrie tells us that embracing surrender can lead to acceptance and inner peace. Brought up as a Catholic in a predominantly Protestant community in Northern Ireland,  the word surrender was associated with giving up – losing. Although the word ‘surrender’ is often associated with a loyalist stance – all people in Northern Ireland, regardless…