YOGA BLOG

Dru Yoga teacher Isabel Carter started practising yoga regularly for more than 30 years, and has been teaching Dru Yoga and Meditation full time for nearly 25 years. She has been teaching others to be Dru Yoga teachers since 2006.

Through these blog posts, Isabel shares her insights regarding diet and nutrition, exercise, yoga and meditation to help you keep your sparkle.

Please enjoy, share and contribute her posts where you can.

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Hello and Welcome to 2019

Moving into sitting forward bend. Hello and welcome to 2019! I have to be honest, I am not big on new year resolutions! I’m never keen on...

Jan 3, 20193 min read

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Dive into the still space within

I left you at the end of my last blog breathing space into your spine and abdomen, which I hope you enjoyed. Now, let’s Practicing yoga...

Aug 20, 20183 min read

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A life well lived

My Nan at 90 As many of you know, I recently lost my Nan. She was 93, had lived a good life and this was the first time she’d been in...

May 29, 20183 min read

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Discover the energy of silence

View of the Nant Ffrancon Valley, Snowdon My last couple of blogs have been focused on the power of silence, the calmness and the...

Apr 11, 20183 min read

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Golden Lake Village

View of the Nant Ffrancon Valley, Snowdon Continuing on our theme of silence, have you heard the story of Golden Lake Village? The people...

Mar 22, 20183 min read

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Keeping on the path

We are well into 2017 now and I hope you are still focussed on your health and wellbeing goals. In my experience it can be hard though to...

Jan 18, 20173 min read

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Give your dreams wings

I hope you’ve managed to dream a bit about 2017, and you’ve got some idea of how you’d like the new year to shape up. In this post I’m...

Jan 11, 20175 min read

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The Niyamas – tools for personal development

The perfection of nature. For this blog I am returning to our series of articles introducing some yogic philosophy. We’ve been focusing...

Nov 3, 20163 min read

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There’s more to yoga than postures

You’ve been asking me for more yoga philosophy in my blog posts, following my series on the Moving into Dancer, focussed on the now...

Aug 30, 20163 min read

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Honouring our teachers

The joy of stillness Did you notice the beautiful full moon last night? If I’ve got my astronomy correct that was the biggest full moon...

Jul 20, 20164 min read

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Where your true self resides

Have you ever experienced moments in your life, however brief, when everything was just perfect, everything exactly where it should be,...

Jun 3, 20163 min read

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Breathe yourself healthy

Last time I introduced the yogic concept of the layers of our being. We started with the physical layer. I’m hoping that since my last...

Mar 9, 20164 min read

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Becoming the Flame

Dru Yoga Dance “Becoming the Flame” We had a wonderful afternoon recently at our Inside Out Yoga studio, of Dru Yoga Dance, with Annie...

Jan 20, 20164 min read

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Meditate your way to a glorious 2016

Happy New Year! This is a wonderful time of year. A fresh start, a clean slate; like starting a new school exercise book, full of promise...

Jan 4, 20163 min read

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Open up to the thousand petaled lotus

Here we are then, we’ve reached the top! Our 7th chakra. The crown, Sahasrara, which very poetically translates to “Thousand petaled...

Nov 23, 20153 min read

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Harness the power of your mind

We are rising now to the Brow centre, Ajna, the 6th chakra in our exploration. All about having a clear purpose in life, ajna rests in...

Nov 9, 20153 min read

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A lesson in letting go

In my last blog, I talked about some of the lessons I have learned whilst injured and in particular about the quality of acceptance. In...

Jun 2, 20153 min read

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Acceptance, acceptance, acceptance

As you know, I have recently had my arm in pot. I’ve been “lucky” (worked hard though!) and healed quickly. I have to be honest I could...

May 20, 20153 min read

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Yoga to nourish your tummy

Here’s the third blog in my series about using yoga to help you maintain a healthy weight. This time I’m going to look at how our yoga...

Mar 19, 20154 min read

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The power of silence

As some of you know, I’ve been lucky enough to spend a few days of this new year away on a meditation retreat, at the Dru centre in...

Jan 20, 20152 min read

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