Yoga is the cheese to the CrossFit biscuit. The combination is now so highly regarded there’s a whole host of CrossFit trainers that have trained as yoga teachers (and vice versa), and yoga with CrossFit even has its own hashtag ‘yogiwod’. If you chuck yoga and CrossFit into a Google search hundreds of articles and yoga flows will come up. Whilst yoga and CrossFit might seem wildly different, there are actually many similarities between the two. Both improve strength and endu

Birth trauma in me was subtle. There was no big bang, no sudden onset of chaos after the event, and I didn’t have any classic symptoms of PTSD. I have since learnt that, like everything in life, trauma exists on a continuum from severe trauma and PTSD, to milder trauma with a more subtle impact. To me birth trauma was like ivy; it weaved its way into my brickwork quietly and unnoticed, and slowly but surely it was bringing down my house. Rewind 8 years. My son’s birth was tra

I first started yoga at 18. I was at university and drunk alllll the time when my friend and I had the winning idea to start yoga at 9am on a Saturday morning - honestly I don’t know what possessed us. We both went along every weekend, hung-over to the absolute max, head pounding, poison sweating from every pore, and trying not vomit through the class. I look back now and I wonder if somehow even then I was trying to save myself from the serotonin crisis of crap diet, crap sl

I didn’t find childhood the easiest, and I grew up in a family dotted with undiagnosed mental health problems. As a result I've always felt a little on the back foot with mental ill health; that it's possibly lurking just around the corner and I’d be wise to do what I can to help protect myself. I'm not sure if that's the right or wrong way to view things, it's just how I felt, but I guess it's no different to avoiding the midday sun to protect against skin cancer. I chose