Control your tongue!

* I love doing tongue exercises. They are beneficial for you in so many ways. * The tongue is like the diaphragm in a special way. It is a ‘bridge’ between conscious and unconscious. * The tongue is also the end of the acupuncture meridians for the kidney. * It is often said that your ‘breathing’ can be a link …

Yoga and Smoking – How to reduce your urge to smoke

SIMPLE BREATHING EXERCISES TO COMPENSATE FOR THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF SMOKING AND TO REDUCE THE URGE TO SMOKE If you are smoker and don’t want to actually give up right now here are some simple things you can do to address some of the negative effects of smoking. The essence of yoga is ‘balance’ and ‘mental flexibility’. I feel that …

Time flies when you’re having fun

Time flies when you are (safe and) having a good time! But time goes really slowly when your body experiences potential threat (‘flight or fight’), even if your mind thinks this is fun! I went to an amazing 90 minute trapeze class last week with my son and daughter. We had all done this several times before but this was …

Fire Starts! All about our Vinyasa Classes

Everyone is welcome in our Vinyasa classes, from complete beginner to advanced students – the Yoga Synergy method caters for everyone. The Vinyasa class is our Level 1 class and the best one to start with for your first Yoga Synergy class. In the Yoga Synergy method, each posture is taught with simple through to complex versions, enabling you to …

Salad Crackers! Learn about Nutrition

MY DIET: I eat what ever I like whenever I like, However much I want. But because of how I regulate my posture, movement and breathing, my main food and all I really like to eat is fruit, salad and vegetables. I don’t usually dehydrate my salad but these photos show what I did once. I took as much salad …

3 Minute Sequence from Simon Borg-Oliver – Feel Really Good!

This is a 3 minute sequence of posture, movement and breathing that is safe, accessible and effective for most normal adults living in the modern world. It can make you feel really good! More Information All the movements are active and each movement begins at the core (the seat of the enteric nervous system just in front of the L5-S1 …

Best postures for Pranayama

When you are practising seated meditation and/or breath-control exercises (pranayama) the most important thing is to be sitting in a comfortable pain-free position with a lengthened and relaxed spine and trunk. For most normal people the best way to do this is to sit up straight on a chair without leaning against the back of the chair. However, For those …

Savasana Yoga Synergy Blog

To Savasana or Not to Savasana

Ultimately the choice to lie down or rest for savasana is up to the individual and one must pay attention to the effect of doing or not doing it and see how the individual body responds in different circumstances – remember every moment and every practice is different so the aim of the practitioner is to learn to respond to …

New Birthing Book by Yoga Synergy Student

Our long time devoted student, Jutta Wohlrab has just released her new book Happy Birthday Days and we would love to say Congratulations! It is a wonderfully positive book with an encouraging message for mothers to be. Get your copy on Amazon. Here is what they say… Pizza and parcels should be delivered but babies should be born. Happy Birthing …