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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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14Jan

Can We Love Our Children Equally?

Wendy Varley

family, father, mother, parenting, siblings

Relationships

Is it possible to treat all your children exactly the same. Mother of four (including triplet girls) considers
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13Jan

5 Steps to a First Job You'll Actually Enjoy

Anne Wilson

career, tips

Work

Feel a bit lost after your degree? Wonder what happened to that glittering career? You’re not alone. Many graduates feel disillusioned in the brutal reality of today’s job market. The good news is that if you follow these five steps, you can get new inspiration in finding a job you enjoy....
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10Jan

How Our Anxieties Can Play Out in the Home

Anonymous Therapist

anxiety, experienceoftherapy, home, therapy

Therapists

How a woman used housework to try to contain her feelings of anxiety
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09Jan

What Does a Therapist's Consulting Room Look Like?

Camilla Nicholls

experienceoftherapy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, therapy

Therapists

What can you expect from the inside of a therapist's consulting room?
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09Jan

Can You Teach Yourself to be More Empathetic?

Roman Krznaric

empathy, relationships, self, wellbeing

Soul

Roman Krznaric explains why empathy is an essential element of wellbeing
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08Jan

The Restful Mind

Jon Madge

meditation

Soul

Gyalwa Dokhampa has earned an international reputation for making the life-changing parts of Buddhist thought approachable and easy to understand
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08Jan

Mindfullness is not Mindfulness

Aaron Balick

mindfulness

Therapists

The cursor on my screen moves along swiftly. My wifi is off and my mobile is on “do not disturb” – so no emails, no notifications, and no phone-calls or texts. I’m not worried. I know that in about 30 minutes I’ll check all those devices and whatever I need to attend to can wait until then. Just now I have to write this column and I want to be mindful and present for the task. In many ways, there’s something delightfully calming about this, which is paradoxical because it’s still work. It seems that as mindfulness is gaining more space in the public conversation, our...
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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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07Jan

Let’s Do Lunch – in a Graveyard

Ann Treneman

books

Soul

When I tell people that, for four years, I have spent most of my spare time in graveyards, they always look a little alarmed. They shouldn’t. In the process of writing and researching my book Finding the Plot: 100 Graves to Visit Before You Die, I have visited scores of graveyards: grand and tiny, Victorian and modern, manicured and tumbledown.  Not depressing, nor weird, they are fascinating places with so many things to notice: those names (like Myrtle, Ethel etc) you’d forgotten existed, intriguing epitaphs, and some amazing monuments which, in places such as Highgate in...
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