The social media takeover: The global takeover of social media, especially platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Meaning we are living in technological-driven modern world. On the plus side, there is an endless pool of yoga advice, poses and online classes we can get involved in. When it comes to modern yoga, social media now offers us unique opportunities …
How yoga can be beneficial as we age
Yoga is an universally performed exercise for people of all ages. The numerous different forms of yoga, means there are potential benefits for everyone. The focus of this article is how yoga can be especially beneficial for us during the mid to later stages of our lives.
How yoga can improve your sleep!
A Melo introduction to the new year: Hello to everyone again, this is officially our first article of 2023! Melo Yoga is officially stepping in to the new year… only two months late. To start our year, we felt like speaking about something that relates to us all… that would be sleep. In general, most of us probably feel like …
Welcoming a new member to the family.
Mak showing symptoms of being very poorly: It’s a new day and we are off to collect a new friend for Chester. His name is Levi. Chester is our remaining American guinea pig. Mak our beautiful alpaca guinea pig unfortunately passed. The previous Friday, Mak started to show symptoms of being very poorly – football training finished around 9 pm …
The role of spirituality in yoga.
Learning from the past: Even though previous articles have shortly mentioned the spiritual side of yoga (Melo Yoga talks about cultural appropriation). The next logical step is to dive deeper into how yoga can reconnect us all on a more intimate level with our spirit. As previously mentioned in earlier articles. Yoga including its philosophies and teachings of yoga was …
How do you like your coffee in the morning?
98 million a day. That is how many cups of coffee we in the UK consume every single day! But, how does this relate to yoga? There has been a continuous debate surrounding the usage of ingesting caffeine before practicing yoga. Coincidentally, the article aims to outline whether caffeine has a positive or negative effect on your yoga practice? Or, …
Tony’s yoga class – Budokon
Budokon Budokon (the way of the spiritual warrior) is a unique training style that combines martial arts, yoga, calisthenics and animal locomotion designed to train the body and mind in a truly integrated way. This class will challenge your physical capabilities and mental focus while improving your mobility, strength and control. N.B. Classes will only run when a minimum of …
Jenny’s yoga class
Energetic vinyasa flow Experience the liberation of living flow. Vinyasa combines movement and breath: the source of prana, or life force energy and conscious intelligence – into a yoga flow, a practice which also allows us to “go with the flow” in life itself. This energetic, creative vinyasa helps release “doing” and shift into “being” with ease and vitality, on …
Hannah’s Yoga Class
Yin/Yang Yoga Yin poses are long-held passive poses, where we marinate in poses for longer, bringing us more range of motion for the second half of the class: “Yang” where we work on building our stability and strength. Mobility and stability combined, optimise our body’s strength and flexibility. N.B. Classes will only run when a minimum of 5 persons …