Diary of a Yogic Mummy

It is so nicce to enjoy simple moments - we have had very mixed weather here but on the hot and sunny days we have just loved watching the girls roll down the hill of our garden giggling, see them jump in and out of the pool and very special to me them joining me in the courtyard outside for the end of my early morning yoga session. Simple pleasures that bring a huge smile to my lips! This week the family is here and we are enjoyiing wtching all the cousins play together before we all head down south for some camping and seaside fun!

So as usualy life is busy as the summer holidays are in full swing without sadlly the best of weather . The girls and Christian have had colds, I've had a throat infection, we have had rain, wind, storms, sun and pretty much everything this week. Clementine celebrated her 3rd birthday and I count myself lucky to have seen this as both Clementine and I nearly didn't make it past her birth so her smiles and the family games together made it very special. Even my buttefly cakes were a hit although twister straight after them was a little uncomfortable! This week help is at hand as Helena arrives from the uk to look after the children in return for some french improvement and food and pool time....I think we can manage that.... right off to bed - enjoy your weekend....

so I'm trying to do a little yoga wit the girls as we progress through the summer holidays but to be honest they pick iit up for themselves - see the most recent photo of Clementine doing yoga in our courtyard....love her!!!!!

so I'm trying to do a little yoga wit the girls as we progress through the summer holidays but to be honest they pick iit up for themselves - see the most recent photo of Clementine doing yoga in our courtyard....love her!!!!!

So here in France we have started 2 months of summer holidays and my resolution is to get my kids practising with me this summer....a great chance to share and giggle together. enjoy!!!

A have just found out that some friends of mine lost their beautiful daughter louise to a drugs related accident and Vicky her Mum was sent this beautiful poem that I wanted to share with you all.....hold on tight to those you love : by Taos Pueblo Hold on to what is goodeven if it is a handful of earth,Hold on to what you believeeven if it is a tree which stands by itself,Hold on to what you must doeven if it is a long way from here,Hold on to my handeven when I have gone away from you.

oooff well a big sigh of relief as things start to at least sort themselves out if not calm down! Filming, web site development, dvd revamps, a yoga retreat, getting the gites ready and life has generally taken up masses of our time hence living in the moment and with the girls as opposed to online! As many know I am not the one to spend hours online even if it might look like that and infact I am about to go outside and enjoy the few rays of sun that the uk has offered in the last few days very shortly! Life has certainly been very busy but the girls have been and continue to flourish with the shared parenting responsibilities - thank god my husband is very involved - the two homes and schools and the various yoga activties that seemlessly happen around them. If I have a tip to any of you it would be don't hide your yoga practise away from your kids as the more you practise around them the easier it becomes. My girls are so used to me practising early in the morning as they come d...

How can week's get any busier? A brilliant week weather wise with some amazing outings off piste at the Col Perce with my husband and then out for a snow shoe to the Monal, skiing with my friend Shelley just back from Nepal and the usual teaching, running around after the children, preparing a workshop given on Saturday flowwing with the Shakti and generally trying to keep up with my own practise - thanks to Marc Holzman for his great online classes for inspration and Lara Baumann for her Kapha style class to energise my troops after the full moon and for the last 5 weeks of season. The girls also big thanks for there ever present smiles and Christian for picking up the pieces when things fall apart.... as they always do. As Pema Chodron says - we canot solve all the problems as things inevitably fall aart then come together again then fall apart that's just what happens the trick is to find the space to let this happen and for joy, grief, laughter, pain and the miriad of emoti...

So I've decided as life is sooooo busy at the moment and I need to try and preserve some time for my own practise and some of course for my children (and husband) that I will only make an entry a week on this site.... so this week has been a real test of patience and calm as I have rollarcoasted from being very ill with flu at the weekend to my DVDs messing up to becoming a major taxi driver for the girls and up and down the moutain for work and general house stuff and then my car radiator decided to leak and so it is now sick too at the garage and so ..... yes deep breath, practise some detachment and enjoy the world around us! So the fog it now lifting from these many events and quite literally outside so for a couple of hours I am going out for a ski before I head down the moutain to collect my now mended car......have an amazing weekend - I'm going climbing, skiing, swimming and of course am practising yoga and teaching - so a quiet one then! namaste

so the last day of the month and my new regiimee of getting up at 6am and practising before the day has started is going well. I am far freer for the kids during the day and for work and classes of course too - stiffer in the morning but such a wonderful atmosphere....the girls came and joined in this morning - Melodie chanting om and Clementine sitting on me in the extended forward bend. Great start to a great day - sun shining, cold, fresh snow....lots of great phone calls and meetings.....things are finally slotting into place! Namaste