Summer is finally here. We have had a few weeks of sunshine and warmth and are now feeling rather hot and bothered. The weather – we can not stop complaining about it.

Here are a few tips on how to stay cool, calm and collected when the heat just becomes too hot to handle.

I have recently thought very hard about how to live, practice and embody yoga. I have had an amazing, transformative and very busy year. Getting married, then going to India to study at ayurvedic hospitals as part of my Post Grad in Ayurvedic medicine, spent time there relaxing and experiencing Southern India with my husband after 3 months apart.

The attributes of Earth are grounding, heaviness, the connection to Mother Earth – gravity. Earth is stability, permanence and rigidity. In our body we can connect physically with the Earth element in our bones, flesh and muscles – even our teeth!

I have now been in India for nearly 6 weeks. And time is a to relative. In some ways it feels like I have been here for a long long time: I have experienced so much and learned tons of stuff. On the other hand it is only just over a month!

Today we have seen a little bit of sun. And it is the first dry day since Monday. And it is Sunday, our only day off during the week! Time for celebrating…

Yoga teaches us steps so that we can achieve ishavara pranisad Surrendering to Universe or God.

If you have traveled in India you may have experienced the frustrations due to the lack of obvious

organisation and structure. Try crossing the road for a start…