Diary of a Yogic Mummy

16th October 2012 So a few days at home to replenish the family batteries and change clothes/bags before heading up to Paris for the first ever Yoga festival in Paris.... 19th -21st October 2012. I have a little stand to promote my yoga and also the site www.yogachezmoi.com and it should be  a full on yoga jamboree! Last week was a very full but amazing week spent with the monks of the Sainte Presence Monastry near Redon, Brittany. Beautiful moments of sharing prayers and meditation, yoga sessions and discussions about spirituality today and how it can relate to our every day lives and most of all a lot of laughs. Let noone tell you that a monastry is a dull and austere place we had a right laugh! The one thing monks do not do is  take themselves seriously! The journey home was just fabulous and a wonderful evening was spent with my friend Lisa and American yogi lost a little in paris at the moment. Life could not be fuller as last night saw me rehearsing for a concert planned for

If someone had told me that I was going to be doing a photo shoot for a magazine cover even a couple of years ago I would have said "me, never! who would want be to do that!" but Esprit Yoga magazine have done just that and I went up to Paris with my hair suitably blow-dried to a studio and spent over 3 hours in variations of pigeon for the advanced sequence in the March/April edition and another 40 minutes in different poses for the front cover. I emerged slightly shell shocked with subtle pink lipstick on into the Paris night ... relief .... then followed 3 days of intense yoga practise, teaching and a few glorious sessions with Elena Brower (over from New York) and Marc Holzman (just baack from LA) ... such a treat to spend time with them and dip into a whole realm of different experiences after a rather off the grid Summer down here in the Ardeche. Paris was as evere busy but as always strangely romantic and beautiful..... Looking forward to going back there soon Home