E05 Blogcast - Up Hill

E05 Blogcast - Up Hill

Shownotes for episode 05 of the Balance Garden podcast, ‘Up Hill.’… Asking what it means to take care of ourselves inside & outside this January - a month traditionally associated with new resolutions & regimes, featuring yoga teacher Elle Daniels & Theresa Giffard.

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Sanctuary in the City #2 - Hampstead Heath: an old friend

Sanctuary in the City #2 - Hampstead Heath: an old friend

In the second of a new column for Balance Garden exploring urban oases and wellbeing, Tiger Lily explores Hampstead Heath and reflects on the relationships it has helped to facilitate.

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Yoga Nidra: Grow Your Garden

Yoga Nidra: Grow Your Garden

This yoga nidra is designed to focus the mind on cultivating a balanced and fulfilling approach to attain your intentions. A wonderful practice to return to and check-in with what support is needed to achieve each intention.

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Sanctuary in the City #1 - Walthamstow Wetlands

Sanctuary in the City #1 - Walthamstow Wetlands

In the first of a new column for Balance Garden exploring urban oases and wellbeing, Tiger Lily explores Walthamstow Wetlands, wading through the January blues and finding sanctuary in the city.

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How to Build Your Emotional Intelligence

How to Build Your Emotional Intelligence

Psychotherapist Jen Woodward shares how emotional intelligence can improve pretty much every relationship and interaction you ever have. Can you recognise and regulate your own emotions? Get to know yourself a bit further with these helpful steps.

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Meditation: Let Go with the Ocean

Meditation: Let Go with the Ocean

Life can be busy, and we can find that we are holding onto feelings and thoughts that we no longer need. This meditation by Nids Nidra is set to the sound of the ocean to help let go and flow with the rhythm of nature. Release some tension and create space for new opportunities. 

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Living, Speaking and Breathing Your Truth – A Map for an Authentic Life

Living, Speaking and Breathing Your Truth – A Map for an Authentic Life

To celebrate World Honesty Day, Phoebe coaches you to use an impactful technique to help set your internal compass to point towards ‘Truth’ so that you can live an authentic fulfilling life that feels in full alignment to your values.

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What is Yoga Nidra?

What is Yoga Nidra?

‘Defrag the mind’ with a yoga nidra practice. Simple yet powerful, a yoga nidra practice can produce healing that leads to significant life changes. Founded in the yogic belief that to change the external experience of life requires changing the inner landscape of the mind, it builds the strength of whilst resting and restoring balance. 

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Raise Your Glasses to Your Health with this ‘Good Morning Turmeric Elixir’

Raise Your Glasses to Your Health with this ‘Good Morning Turmeric Elixir’

As we also enter the party season, we tax our bodies a little bit more at night, and so if we can upgrade what we do in the morning, it will help our body to regain its balance more easily. That way we will have more energy to enjoy all the fun that this season brings with it.

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How to Pick a Meditation Practice

How to Pick a Meditation Practice

Meditation is popular and there are many types of practices to choose from. How do you know what to pick and how it will help you? We put together a simple and pragmatic approach to select meditation practices that evolve as your intentions change with time.

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Cool as a Cucumber: How to Cool Down with Green Juice

Cool as a Cucumber: How to Cool Down with Green Juice

A lot has been written on the virtues of a cold press vegetable juice, but did you know that it can also be a very good temperature regulator? Blanka, who has to spend some time in Summer working from her boss’s home office space ‘under a hot tin roof’, shares her strategies for cooling it down when you have no access to air conditioning.

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