Happy Winter Solstice! To be honest I often struggle a little around this time with tiredness, the short days just make me want to mostly curl up indoors. That's ok though it's what we are designed to do. 

In yoga philosophy there are 5 "Niyama's" which are positive recommended personal activities and habits for healthy living and spiritual enlightenment. One of the Niyama's is called Tapas...

I'm just back from a lovely conscious festival called Into the Wild. By conscious I mean there is no drugs or alcohol there and your days are filled with yoga, dancing, workshops and generally chatting to other like minded people.

I have a confession. Sometimes when I wake up before I do anything else I check my emails and Facebook from my phone :-/ Now I know this is not the best way to start my day. I know it makes my head start to race before it's ready.

As much as we can try to control our lives we are never completely in control. We can be in action, we can speak up, we can do what ever it takes to make our dreams happen but sometimes they don't. Not when we want them too anyway. I have set goals in the past, and done all I could to create them but come the deadline they have still felt far away from realisation...