Tag: yoga
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Toppling over
As I reflect on a year in Timor-Leste, I’ve been re-reading some of my old blog posts and remembering what my life was like when I’d just arrived. In my first few weeks here, I needed a reminder that it was very normal to not know how to do things yet. I felt flustered and overwhelmed…
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Keeping your balance
Most Tuesday evenings, I do a yoga class at Dili Wellness run by my friend Emma. Every week, she takes us through a gentle ashtanga-like sequence that generally follows the same pattern of every other yoga class I’ve done – but with one notable exception. Emma puts the balancing poses near the end of the…