Lightness

Lightness of Spirit   ‘April is the cruellest month ‘  T.S. Eliot.  The Waste Land Yes because for me April seems to tease with a hint of warmer days and then return to the cold and dampness we have come to know of winter and early Spring. I am no doubt biased...

Dancing with Arthritis blog post 13/3/2023

  How to write a blog – just start where you are the voice said. Well today I am ok!  Should I say more?  After a long movement session, which was new to me, on Monday, my arthritic knees felt weak and sore.  On Saturday, Sunday and Monday my joints felt good so...

Sidi Kaouki

Down on the beach a lone camel stands. The seat on his back is empty. At his master’s voice he bends his knees, and sits patiently waiting. His head turned to the surf and the wind.

Marrakech

Scooters and bikes and all the likes. Tuk tuk taxis and motos with carts. Donkeys and barrows and even a horse! In the narrowest streets I have known. Horns hoot and engines roar, Donkeys bay with the constant beat of the heart inside the medina. The Muezzins’ call...

Neck Pain or Temperomandibular disorder?

I have had neck and shoulder pain and stiffness for the last four or five weeks.  My jaw has clicked for many years but is not sore.   But, moving my jaw back and forward and side to side along with neck stretches seems to help my neck pain.  Of course they are linked...

Feel Move Dance Feel

The other day in my morning practice I started to write single words that I would use to either describe dancing or more specifically Dancing with Arthritis.   Words that would perhaps interest people to come to my class. The first three words are Move Dance Feel.   I...

Trees For Life

Sanas ancient wisdom now has it’s very own grove at Treesforlife.org treesforlife.org.uk/groves/366010/ I am pleased to at last be able to do this.  A proportion of money earned will now go towards rewilding the Scottish Landscape! Thank you for your continued...

Slow Pilates

Slow Pilates is about attention to detail, particularly Posture and Position. It is about Breath, Flow and lengthening the Spine.  This is the Pilates format,  but we can go slower and learn to tune into our body, mind and spirit more. Learning to release tensions...