by Jenny-May While | Nov 7, 2024 | Blog
and yoga pre- and post-surgery It’s another one of those stories. We’re hearing more of them these days as women find their voice around menstrual health. Years of heavy, painful periods. Dismissal by medical professionals. Useless prescriptions. You know how it goes....
by Jenny-May While | May 29, 2024 | Blog
Why should Iyengar yoga be available for patients on prescription? The UK is in the grip of a mental health epidemic, with 1 in 6 people having experienced a common mental health problem (such as depression, anxiety and stress) in the last week and at an estimated...
by Jenny-May While | Jul 4, 2023 | Blog
I HATED PE at school. I really loathed it. It was a routine humiliation of nylon knickers and enforced communal showers, of feeling clumsy and inadequate next to the ‘PE girls’, who were usually also the ‘popular girls’; powerful, enviable, desirable. PE, for me,...
by Jenny-May While | Apr 22, 2023 | Blog
I was hoping to be among many thousands of people marching in London this weekend to demand truth and immediate collective action in response to the climate crisis. I can’t go, in the end, but I wish all who can very well. Perhaps naively, I wish them success. I live...
by Jenny-May While | Mar 24, 2023 | Blog
Shricharan Faeq Biria 14th November 1946 – 9th April 2022 Tributes and Memories To start with, some observations from some of Faeq’s oldest friends in yoga; Pranshant Iyengar and Jawahar Bangera. These are taken from the funeral celebration of April 2022....