Achieve Your Balance

Race season 🏃🏻‍♂️ 🟢🌙

Swapping the hills of West Yorkshire for the quiet roads of North Yorkshire this afternoon 🚲

After the great success of the previous sessions, I’m excited to continue with these sessions in starting the first week in February.

If you are aware of anyone that might benefit then please get in touch. Especially good for those with cognitive impairment of those who suffer with the impact of ageing.

Thanks again to .yoga.uk for making it happen!

Exploring the space our joints give us with .

Our bodies all have an optimal way to move and the key to understanding that is YOU.

Through understanding how joints can move then exploring what feels good for you, you can start to understand how to utilise the space your body has given you….

This is the beginning of mindful movement and it is so simple🕺 🧘‍♀️ 🙅‍♂️

Try it yourself- move your arms, legs, hips, neck, feet, hands and back and recognise what feels nice, where the tension is and explore the new areas that you didn’t know your body appreciated being.

Enjoy the process then inhabit the space.

Doing mornings the right way 🌄

The days I start my morning with exercise are unquestionably my most productive!

New rule: move first 🏃🏻‍♂️ coffee after ☕️

Love this!

It’s amazing to think how our bodies have adapted and refined themselves over billions of years to conquer our environment.

The reasons, as a species, we have been able to thrive in this 🌎 is due to our ability to adapt.

We have the tools already built into our biology to overcome many health challenges; sometimes we just need to work out how to use them.

👣 👀 🤲🏻 🦴 🧠 🧬 🫁

Excited to be back in the clinic with clients after a NY break!

Grateful for good friends who push me out my comfort zone!

This last year did an amazing job at FORCING me to rediscover the benefits of regular swimming in nature!

Excited to get back to weather that will allow me to get back in the water for a swim…..and to those of you who still manage it this time of the year….I salute you 👌🏻 🏊‍♂️ (and also think you’re crazy!)

Customer reviews make it all worth it 👌🏻

I enjoy reading people’s posts at this time of the year. Some look forward optimistically, some reflect on past successes and failures and some are sceptical about new resolutions suggesting that goals should be pursued throughout the entirety of the year. I enjoy it though because people are more authentic. You see their hopes, aspirations, challenges.

Personally, I like to set NY resolutions. Often I think we attribute our failures and negative traits to our ‘past selves’. Our ‘present selves’ are consequently viewed with more optimism and confidence. We recognise we have learned from previous shortcomings and inevitably are armed with new experiences that we can learn from. Temporal landmarks (New Year) provide an opportunity to distinguish our past from our present selves and to set new goals and ambitions with accessible timelines.

Last year I set a personal goal to run 1200 miles. It didn’t happen. The middle of the year was hampered with injury, uncertainty and then….laziness. As the end of the year approached, however, I recognised that whilst I wouldn’t achieve that goal, I could still achieve 1,000 total miles for the year if I put in some serious effort. With the help of friends (and a great local running community) I achieved this with a day to spare. Without the ‘end of the year’ looming I would never have increased my effort and experienced the resultant satisfaction and benefit of running more.

Many, perhaps most of us may not achieve the goals we set out to achieve. That does not mean we shouldn’t try. Circumstances change and there are numerous lifestyle factors that can hamper progress and stop us in our tracks but when we set out to try what we inevitably gain is experience and progress that will increase resilience, wisdom and knowledge for the next time.

I hope for you, whether you’ve decided to set new goals or not, that you are enjoying a period of reflection and can look forward optimistically, armed with greater experience and resilience, to 2022 as an opportunity for progress, a chance to rediscover meaning and purpose and ultimately to experience some of the enjoyment that life has to offer.

Here are some of my NY resolutions.

Happy New Year everyone! 🎉

We started as we mean to go on….run in the park with a great bunch of people (with a first first-place dog finish too!) 🥇 🐕

We’ve got lots of exciting updates and plans through the year and can’t wait to share them with you over the coming weeks and months. 2022 is going to be a good one! 💪