Freelance (adjective): Self-employed and hired to work for different companies on particular assignments. Fear (noun): An unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm. Freelance Fear: Post-tour dread that the phone will never ring again (despite the fact this has not come to pass in your long career…. and you have it […]
Today is the last day of our two week Thai retreat, and I’m writing this in our treehouse in the wildly beautiful Koh Phangan jungle as it pours with rain. It’s been tropical-storming all morning, and the sounds of the wind and rain and thunder, the ocean waves below us, the birds and insects, are
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I LOVE doing nothing. Don’t get me wrong, I hugely enjoy the activities and work that I do, but I really value empty spaces in my calendar when my time is free-form and I can be playful and creative or quiet and still, according to how I feel. And I realise that may sound
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Holy handstands Batman, if I had a peanut-butter cup for every time I’ve heard that I’d be a very well-padded yogini indeed! It’s up there with ‘I’d like to try yoga but I’m not flexible’ as one of things I hear most often. I hear it when a student comes to me for the first
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Last week I was invited to the Henley festival to see my old chum Lionel Richie. (I saw him a fortnight ago at Glasto as well – that’s more than I see most of my mates, so I figure we’re pretty much BFFs now.) Henley is not a festival of the muddy fields and tent
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Those of you who have signed up for my newsletter (and thank you, it’s had a fantastic response!) will know that I’ve been musing recently about finding balance in our lives – between work and play, between the things we have to do and the things we want to do, between effort and ease. Well,
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At first glance, it seems that the roles of monitor engineer and yoga teacher have nothing at all in common, yet the more I do of both, the more I realise just how alike they are. Clearly the technical knowledge is vastly different – being good at recognising audio frequencies isn’t much use in class, any
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This is my latest concoction, and it’s fair to say I’m obsessed. On a smoothie kind of a day, it doesn’t get any better than this. It tastes like melted mint-choc chip ice-cream – ohhh, creamy badness – but it has a scandalous secret… ….it is ridiculously good for you. I’m not kidding. We’re
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Routine is not something which features strongly in my life, but there are several things which I definitely do every day/try to do every day/do as often as possible. Things which take minimal time and effort, but which have a beneficial effect on my overall wellbeing in mind, body and spirit, as well as helping
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This has been an exciting week of forging new alliances! On the sound side, I’ve started working with two very different female artists, both of whose music I enjoy. (This makes mixing a pleasure, but has its downsides when I’m still all vibed up on a great earworm at bedtime – I can’t stand still behind
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