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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Mar 12, 20123 min read

Please love your knees

Helping us to move and supporting our weight, knees do such a lot for us, but when was the last time you thought about looking after...

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Mar 4, 20122 min read

More gout talk…

…Yes believe or not I have more things to say on the subject of gout! In my enthusiasm to share my tips for dealing with this troublesome...

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Mar 3, 20123 min read

Let’s talk about gout!

One of the things that makes my job so interesting is that no 2 classes are ever the same and you just never know what someone is going...

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Feb 13, 20122 min read

Lights… Camera… Deep Yogic Breathing (!?)

As you may have guessed from the title of this blog post I have been making my film (YouTube to be precise!) debut and what a test of my...

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Feb 8, 20122 min read

This week you’ve got homework

In my last post I was talking about the value of relaxation and how sometimes this important element of a yoga class is actually...

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Jan 29, 20122 min read

How we can all benefit from laying like a corpse!

I really hope you’ve tried out the relaxation pose from my last blog and are now feeling the benefit of giving yourself time to be and...

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Jan 19, 20122 min read

The 5 Minute Energy Boost

Savasana or Corpse Pose As you might imagine January is a busy time for yoga classes and here at Inside Out we are no exception. We have...

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Jan 5, 20121 min read

Wellbeing in Schools

Happy New Year! Westborough High School, Dewsbury - Logo Hope you are all well and keeping on track with your resolutions. I had a lovely...

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Dec 31, 20113 min read

New Year Resolutions?!

I’m sitting here contemplating new year resolutions… and I’ve just read that at least 80% of resolutions remain unachieved! So is there...

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Dec 21, 20112 min read

Festive Light and Candle Gazing (Tratak)

Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year – hooray! Lighter days here we come! It’s also nice though, to honour this...

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Dec 9, 20112 min read

Don’t Let a Cold Spoil Your Christmas

A few years ago, I had a dreadful Christmas: I was in bed with ‘flu, from Christmas Eve until the day I went back to work in January –...

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Nov 30, 20111 min read

Everyone’s a Winner in Birstall

I’m really pleased to announce that from this week Inside Out Dru Yoga has a new home as we’ve teamed up with Birstall’s MP FIT Gyms....

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Nov 21, 20111 min read

Fabulous 40 – Thoughts on Staying Youthful!

I celebrated a BIG birthday this weekend (!) – many thanks to all of you who sent me birthday wishes – and it got me thinking about...

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Nov 5, 20111 min read

Back Aching? Get to a Yoga Class – Part 2!

Further to my post last week about coming to a yoga class to ease a painful back, perhaps you saw the articles in the press this week on...

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Oct 28, 20111 min read

Back Aching? Get to a Yoga Class!

I’ve had a couple of conversations with students this week, that I thought I would share with you. They were both on the subject of back...

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Oct 19, 20112 min read

Firm Foundations

Hello and hope you are all well. I had a really busy weekend teaching on the Dru Yoga Teacher Training course in Leeds, where we welcomed...

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Oct 15, 20111 min read

Words of Wisdom from a Business Pro

Terry Hodgkinson I’m a member of a local business networking group called proNet which meets for breakfast at a hotel in nearby...

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