Movement & Exercise
Spring Into Gardening
As spring rapidly approaches, I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to get back into the garden. This week, I’m starting by sowing my saved sweet pea seeds...
Practice Makes Perfect
Do you feel the need to crawl across the living room to get assistance from a piece of furniture when getting up off the floor? As we get older many...
Exercise for older adults
Unfortunately, there currently isn’t anything on the market that will stop us from ageing, but we can do something to limit its impact. It doesn’t have to cost the earth...
Physical activity levels: How do you measure up?
Many of us may assume we are in the more active category. There are so many ways in which we are reminded to exercise, from the media, our phones, fitness...
Yoga Therapy Course for Healthy Backs: A different approach
People think of Yoga as being all about stretching and perhaps meditating but Yoga therapy is a way of creating healthy movement patterns to prevent injuries or address existing problems....
Shin Splints & How To Avoid Them
If you, like many people, have come into the new year thinking ‘I need to start exercising more’, there’s a good chance running is a form of exercise that you’re...
Yoga: A Different Approach
People think of Yoga as being all about stretching and perhaps meditating but Yoga therapy is a way of creating healthy movement patterns to prevent injuries or address existing problems....
Yoga Therapy Course for Healthy Backs – a different approach
People think of Yoga as being all about stretching and perhaps meditating but Yoga therapy is a way of creating healthy movement patterns to prevent injuries or address existing problems....
Pilates: What it Means to Me
Pilates has been around for about 100 years and was first created to help rehabilitate WW1 soldiers by Joseph Pilates. Pilates was inspired by the movement of cats, which you...
How to avoid injury whilst training for a long-distance event
“There’s something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we...
Gardening: 5 Ways to keep your body happy
With Spring comes the start of people preparing their gardens and then with Summer comes the fruits of their labour. Every step of gardening from prepping the soil, planting the...
Why Exercise is important if you have Diabetes
Exercise is a low-cost and side-effect-free ‘Superhero’ to those that may have diabetes. Exercising regularly can help improve a range of metabolic hormones and the body can become more efficient...