Blogcasts, reflections, recipes and practices
With traditional Valentine's Day dates off the cards due to lockdown, will Covid have us celebrating other kinds of love in 2021? Reminding us of love for family, friends, strangers and nature - ‘Biophilia’ means the ‘inborn affinity human beings have for other forms of life’. The concept is also captured by the Japanese word, ‘Yugen’ (幽玄)...
Read MoreShownotes for episode 05 of the Balance Garden podcast, ‘Up Hill.’… Asking what it means to take care of ourselves inside & outside this January - a month traditionally associated with new resolutions & regimes, featuring yoga teacher Elle Daniels & Theresa Giffard.
Tiger Lily adapts her Sanctuary in the City Column to our new circumstances: presenting Sanctuary in the Self #3. This one is about surviving the fear generated from the present lockdown.
Read MoreTiger Lily adapts her Sanctuary in the City Column to our new circumstances: presenting Sanctuary in the Self #2. This one is about falling in love and coming home in the time of Covid-19
Read MoreTiger Lily adapts her Sanctuary in the City Column to our new circumstances: presenting Sanctuary in the Self #1
Read MoreIn the second of a new column for Balance Garden exploring urban oases and wellbeing, Tiger Lily explores Hampstead Heath and reflects on the relationships it has helped to facilitate.
Read MoreIn the first of a new column for Balance Garden exploring urban oases and wellbeing, Tiger Lily explores Walthamstow Wetlands, wading through the January blues and finding sanctuary in the city.
Read MoreWhich three essential oils would Balance Garden columnist, Blanka, take with her to a deserted island? Find out which ones make the cut and how they can support your summer skincare routine.
Learn the art of self massage to completely transform the way your body and energy feels without needing to take an expensive trip to a massage parlour.
As we also enter the party season, we tax our bodies a little bit more at night, and so if we can upgrade what we do in the morning, it will help our body to regain its balance more easily. That way we will have more energy to enjoy all the fun that this season brings with it.
Read MoreA lot has been written on the virtues of a cold press vegetable juice, but did you know that it can also be a very good temperature regulator? Blanka, who has to spend some time in Summer working from her boss’s home office space ‘under a hot tin roof’, shares her strategies for cooling it down when you have no access to air conditioning.
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