Yoga with Ruth White

Spring is early this year so perhaps equinox is too. Both are excellent times for your body to eliminate toxins. It’s rather like doubling the effects of a full moon. Every month when the moon is full the body has a chance to eliminate, so it’s helpful to stop taking a...

Dear One

I was sent an article on ‘Breathing’ in the New Scientist by Nicola, a Teacher Training student, there are also more articles on breathing in the National newspapers.

With all this talk about pollution it does seem we are waking up to the importance of oxygen. I...

Dear Friends  How are you feeling? It’s good to get back to classes after Christmas.

If you are finding your mind is still active when you go to bed, try this;

Here is a brilliant method of quietening the mind. So that you can fall into a deep, recuperating sleep.

Lie on...

Dear Friends

How are you this Christmas-tide? The Christmas spirit is about, I was struggling to lift a Christmas tree into the shopping trolley and was helped by a young man who tossed it in with ease.  I thanked him profusely and he said “Well it’s Christmas time, isn...

Dear Friends

This quote from the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling describes Tadasana perfectly with great feeling: “IF you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.”

So, anchor down through your heels, centre yourselves, release tension i...

Dear Friends

I was delighted that so many of you are interested in stepping up your yoga and are interested in the course we are offering.

These 7 days will run parallel to the usual programme. In addition to the asana practice we will take the pranayama meditation and p...

Dear friend,

How is your practise going?

We’ve just returned from the Greek Island of Lesbos, it really is a perfect place to relax and absorb the blue sky and sea, a great opportunity to release and quieten down. The sea is very salty there and allowed even me to float...

In her teens Ruth White had chronic back trouble and was due to go into hospital to have surgery.

She describes herself as the wild, impulsive and hyper-mobile! She loved gymnastics and did not feel at all attracted to this idea and was searching for an alternative way...

Dear Friend,

The power of your attention is enormous.

Your full attention is the greatest present you can give anyone. Children blossom when given attention, they call for it. “watch me mummy, watch me” Your interest, your focused, your one-pointed attention brings life...

Dear Friend,

"Be Kind To Yourself"

We love to blame the outside world for our inward condition. i.e. “who has taken my door key I left it on the table”  Is this because we are afraid to look inwards at our attitude?  One student said she was afraid to get on her mat she...