Tag: digital detox

How to Digitally Detox on a UK Mindfulness Retreat (Without Going Extreme)

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being always available. The ping of notifications. The scroll that starts as “just a quick check” and somehow swallows twenty minutes. The way your hand reaches for your phone before your eyes have fully opened in the morning. You know this feeling. We all do. And…

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Be Social, With a human touch

Check out my lastest story about the draw of social media, and how the digital world effects our brains. Just published in the Elephant Journal here

Urgent

Unplug and Recharge. Although I only teach yoga, I have noticed over the many years of bending and navel gazing that our society as whole is moving further and further into the future, with time becoming extremely fragmented between the digital and physical world. And although they can co-exist quiet happily if we understand the…

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What does ‘spirituality’ mean now?

I’ve been thinking about what does ‘spirituality’ mean now? This is relevant to today’s news as we hear about more kids running away to defend an idea (Islam in this case, but it could just as easily be something else). As I have another teacher training that I am running and the next weekend is…

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