You will probably be in one of three camps regarding yoga:

1)    You do it, you love it, and you tell everyone they should do it too

2)    You did it once, had a bad instructor and/or you are “too busy”

3)    Never tried it, but want to know why people are raving about it - thinking: “Can it be that good? Just twisting and bending uncomfortably?”

Currently mindfulness is all the craze and is the new ‘buzz word’. But mindfulness has actually been around for a long time. With origins in Hinduism and Buddhism, it dates back around 2,500 years. Some of the original Buddhist texts cited practicing mindfulness as being ‘essential in achieving enlightenment’.

Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to achieve what you set out to achieve? How many times have you got to the end of the year and realized that you want to set the same resolution that you set 12 months earlier? But you are an intelligent and (fairly) disciplined person, so it should be simple enough for you to tick off some things that you deem as being of upmost importance to you and your life. But it doesn’t work. Why?

We have all known stress, anxiety and fear. Some more intimately than others. But did you know that it is all essentially the same chemicals and reactions (even excitement is the same)? They all go under the banner of fight/flight. Designed to keep us alert and alive, without it our Great, Great (x1,000) Grandparents wouldn't have survived. But the impact of prolonged stress is a different story; a story with an unhappy main character and a premature ending.