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Three things to cultivate in the New Year
Let me share mine with you… Yoga teaches us to be fully present. Yoga teaches us to feel. And it is in this presence that we can hear the whispers of our heart and feel its longing. I encourage you to listen to your heart, to acknowledge your hearts’ deepest...
What type of yoga do we practice here at the art of balance?!
Often this question does not come from you directly, rather you are asked by friends or family. “What type of yoga do you practice with Bettina?” And then, what to say, how to explain what makes you feel so good within yourself and what has changed your life in so...
Plank practices for Core Strength
Your Manipura Chakra or another reason why Core Strength is a good idea. Throughout the year we have been looking at incorporating the philosophical ideas of yoga tradition into our physical yoga asana practice to support our health and wellbeing even more...
What is Hahnemann Healing?
What is Hahnemann Healing? Hahnemann Healing is a form of emotional healing. This emotional healing modality deals with negative thoughts and feelings towards current or past events in our life. If left unresolved, these emotions can be the cause of illness and can...
Yin yoga for winter
A yoga practice to slow down and restore. Around the time of the winter solstice, and throughout winter, we may all face some feelings of lethargy, feelings of losing our motivation for our yoga practice or any other activities that we usually really love and enjoy. ...
Ganesha Mantra
Om Gam Ganpataye Namah This is the Mantra dedicated to the Lord Ganesha. Ganesha is one of the more popular and well known Hindu deities. He is the one with the elephant head, and known to be the remover of obstacles and negativity. So chanting the mantra dedicated...
Your Inner Resource
… a felt-sense of internal safe-haven or your mini holiday! Would you like to feel in control most moments of your life? Would you like to experience a sense of ease, well-being and security. Would you like to have a tool accessible to you every day, anywhere and...
SELF-LOVE and why you deserve some
Thank you for reading this blog. I am forever grateful. As this is my way to say ‘I love you’. Ok, Ok, I appreciate you. I appreciate your business. Does that sound more palatable? Why? Have you ever said “I love you” to yourself? Why not? You see with...
Five (5) benefits of a regular yoga practice
Have you asked yourself the question why you are practicing yoga? Maybe the answer is crystal clear to you now at the beginning of the year, since you have been without your regular studio yoga practice over the Christmas closure. Maybe there is even more than one...
5 steps to enjoy the festive season
… and end the year with clarity, ready for 2017! Do you want to enjoy the last few weeks of 2016, rather than wishing the year to be gone? Do you want to finish the year on your terms and keep your equilibrium instead of being dictated what to do and letting...








