Using Yoga to combat Stress Awareness Week
Daily life gets busy. As work and home tasks pile up, so does your anxiety, building up until it has no place to go. It’s okay to feel overwhelmed. when…
Yoga Sanskrit: योग, lit. ’yoke’ or ‘union’ pronounced [joːɡɐ]) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognising a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Chitta) and mundane suffering (Duḥkha). There is a wide variety of schools of yoga, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and traditional and modern yoga is practised worldwide
Boxing and Hot Yoga – a winning combination?
Simon Bevan - a Yogafurie "morning crew" regular for many years and graduate Teacher Trainee - is boxing for Cancer Research. You can support him by donating through his JustGiving…
Reforestation: We Need YOU
Today we shift focus away from Yoga oriented topics to focus on an issue that is dear to our heart at Yogafurie - reforestation to save the planet. Amidst the…
A Beginner’s Guide to The Lungs and Yoga
In the next of our ‘Beginner’s Guide’ series, we turn our focus to the beneficial effects that Yoga has on the lungs. In this edition, we’ve got some super intriguing…
Why you need Yoga Nidra (and a free practice for you to try)
Hands up who has time to lie around doing nothing…? (Cue the tumbleweed) That is often how some of us can feel about taking time to practice Yoga Nidra. I…
Yoga to Support Women’s Health
How Yoga helps support our life's natural cycles This article was written with a wide variety of people in mind. Each of us are at different stages of our lives,…
Valentines Yoga – How Science Is Proving The Benefits Of Self-Love
Valentine’s Day is often purely seen as an opportunity to express affection for a significant other. But if we take the emphasis off externalising love and instead internalise it, the…
Beginners mindfulness for when you feel stressed out or anxious
The what's, why's and how's of mindfulness for beginners Written by Sinead Duncan Stressed? Anxious? And feeling totally lost when someone suggests you try meditation? If that’s you, you’re not…
5 Achievable New Year Resolutions That Are Worth Keeping
After the start of the last two years, it’s hard to know what to expect in 2022, but here’s to hoping it’s going to be a great year. And, despite…
Reasons To Get On The Yoga Mat In 2022
With its origins estimated as being 5,000 years old, there is a reason that Yoga has endured for so long. (Even if the loincloth hasn’t survived :-)). We know that…