Category: kindness
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See the person not the disability
Today is international day of people with a disability and I’d like to share a story that was shared with me when I first started working at Scope. A few years ago, a colleague of Scope was travelling by train to a business meeting in the city. He planned to catch the train to…
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30 Days of Kindness – my journey
The biggest thing that came out of me doing my 30 day kindness challenge was probably the change in how I define kindness. When I set out to do my 30 day challenge I wrote out a list of nice things I could do for myself which included things like massages, flowers, yoga and other self…
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Self Love Letter
How would you define love? Does that definition apply to the way you feel about yourself? Last night in the yoga class I taught I read When I began to love myself by Charlie Chaplin in savasana. If you’ve never read it before do yourself a favour and click on the link. As I read through…
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30 Days of Kindness
Last night I went to an amazing workshop on authenticity run by the simply brilliant Emeli Paulo from Collective Potential. If you’ve never heard of Collective Potential do yourself a favour and check them out. At the start of the workshop we were asked to turn to a stranger and tell them what brought us…
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Yoga Teacher Training – week 1 Ahimsa – Nonviolence
If I were to ask you how often you behaved violently what would be your answer? Violence is often associated with psychically hurting another person but what if I expanded the definition of violence to be behaving in a way that is not kind to others or yourself. Once you start exploring the ways that…