by Jayne Attwood | Oct 16, 2025 | Yoga, Pilates
The practise of mindfulness is to focus on our present moment and the task at hand, making it more meaningful and hopefully executing it better. To be mindful is to prevent outside distractions from invading our thoughts or actions so we can be 100% invested in what...
by Jayne Attwood | Aug 21, 2025 | Yoga, Pilates
Yoga blocks don’t come in all shapes and sizes, but they do come with a multitude of uses. If you’re tired of packing them in your bag and never getting much use out of them, these eight ideas should see you getting them out more often… Sitting comfortably First and...
by Jayne Attwood | Jul 25, 2025 | Yoga
At the end of every yoga class, we finish by placing our palms together in front of the heart centre and saying, ‘Namaste’. I like to add a thank you to my class attendees for joining me in their yoga practise for the day, and then we make our merry ways home. But do...
by Jayne Attwood | Feb 6, 2025 | Yoga
Yoga is an exercise well-known for reducing stress and anxiety, bringing calm and grounding through lowering blood pressure and cortisol, whilst increasing the all the lovely feel good hormones; oxytocin, serotonin, endorphins and dopamine. That’s brilliant for the...
by Jayne Attwood | Aug 22, 2024 | Yoga
I’ve been banging on about how great yoga is for years – from keeping you supple, to aiding mental health and vitality, and I thought the best way to prove it to you, is to ask one of my older members to show you! This is Patrick, and this was our conversation about...
by Jayne Attwood | Jun 25, 2024 | Retreat, Yoga
Or perhaps the question should be, ‘what happens on an Ad Astra yoga retreat’?! We just got back from another brilliant weekend away at the gorgeous Woodlands Outdoor Education Centre on the edge of the River Wye in Glasbury, Wales. This time we were very active and...
