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    Lucy Greeves

    Lucy Greeves

    Lucy Greeves is a writer and yoga teacher with a special interest in how yoga and meditation can help us find calmer and more creative ways to harness our mental energy. She leads retreats on behalf of the Arvon Foundation, as well as yoga classes and workshops in East London. http://www.yogaforbusyminds.com

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    Get High with Aerial Yoga
    22Apr

    Get High with Aerial Yoga
    Lucy Greeves
    yoga
    Body
    30 New Road is a narrow, unremarkable terraced house in Whitechapel, a stone’s throw from the Royal London Hospital and the bustle of the street market on the Whitechapel Road. But it's here you'll find Richard Holroyd, former Buddhist monk and now chief flying instructor at Aerial Yoga London. “I was teaching yoga for years and I just couldn’t get my students to understand that this is supposed to be fun,” says Richard. “Then I discovered the swings: now it’s instant”. Swings awaken the child in all of us. If you don’t want to play when you catch sight of the...
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    Yoga Through the Ages
    18Mar

    Yoga Through the Ages
    Lucy Greeves
    yoga
    Body
    Yoga for your whole life From baby yoga to chair-based yoga for pensioners: there’s a class for every age and stage of life. When you approach yoga with the right mindset, it’s a truly ‘whole life’ practice that will sustain you throughout the decades. But different times in life call for different types of practice. What suits the hyperactive teenager is no good for the exhausted mother of toddlers, and what engages the retired arthritis-sufferer won’t sustain the driven 30-year-old career-builder. In this article, I want to take a look at yoga through the stages of...
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    Yoga: Meditation for the Restless
    25Feb

    Yoga: Meditation for the Restless
    Lucy Greeves
    meditation, yoga
    Body
    It was day two of the yoga retreat. We’d just sat for our second evening meditation, in the profound silence of a candlelit limestone cave, and we were sharing some thoughts about our experiences. Suddenly one of my fellow students, in some distress, burst out, “It’s no use! I’m trying and trying and I can’t do it.  I just can’t empty my mind!” Of all the misconceptions about meditation, this is one of the most common – and probably the most unhelpful. Of course the poor woman couldn’t empty her mind – it’s a contradiction in terms. ‘Mind’ is the word we use for...
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    What is Yin Yoga?
    11Feb

    What is Yin Yoga?
    Lucy Greeves
    yoga
    Body
    The American cartoonist Scott Adams once observed, “There are two types of yoga: the kind that hurts like crazy, and the kind that looks like you’re sleeping.” Yin yoga definitely falls into the latter camp.
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    What is Iyengar Yoga?
    14Jan

    What is Iyengar Yoga?
    Lucy Greeves
    yoga
    Body
    Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja (BKS) Iyengar is the best possible advertisement for the yoga movement he founded. At the age of 95, he still practises regularly; anyone who thinks they are “too old for yoga” should take inspiration from recent photographs of BKS in postures he first learnt ...
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    What is Bikram Yoga?
    07Jan

    What is Bikram Yoga?
    Lucy Greeves
    yoga
    Body
    Bikram Yoga is the creation of Bikram Choudhury (b. 1946), who began studying asana at the age of three. At 20 (so the story goes) he was badly injured in a weightlifting accident and despite a grim prognosis from the doctors, managed a full recovery with the help of yoga. Since the 1970s,...
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