Why I do what I do
From addiction to obsession Before I discovered yoga I was in survival mode. I went from work to sleep to work and from addiction to...
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Carly Slade
- May 10, 2021
- 5 min
Overcoming my fear of speaking
The Shy Child Sent to Stagecoach I wasn't a naturally expressive person in the sense that as a child I was incredibly, painfully shy and...
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Carly Slade
- Jun 1, 2020
- 7 min
Namaste?
I wanted to address cultural appropriation and my thoughts on honouring the traditions of yoga. This is a subject that is complicated and co
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Carly Slade
- May 3, 2020
- 5 min
Yoga and obsession
I started yoga at 17 because I was obsessed with exercise and the Power Yoga VHS I used pushed me hard and kept me out of my body. I exerci
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Carly Slade
- Mar 8, 2020
- 6 min
What happens when I say period in class and why I keep doing it anyway…
What happens when I say period in class and why I keep doing it anyway… I came away from my Well Woman Yoga Therapy training empowered to...
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Carly Slade
- Mar 8, 2020
- 2 min
Autonomy and freedom
Depending on my environment, who is around me and what is happening I can show up gregarious, defiant and rebellious or muted, meek and...
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Carly Slade
- Feb 25, 2020
- 3 min
Untethering the mind and drifting into stillness
Thinking is becoming a lost art, not just worrying, planning, remembering, judging and all of the usual mind fluctuations we cram into the b
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Carly Slade
- Jan 20, 2020
- 3 min
Lessons from my pelvis in yoga practice
A female pelvis is structurally more predisposed to instability so it’s super important to know how to take care of them in our practice....
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Carly Slade
- Aug 19, 2019
- 2 min
Wild woman yoga!
As a women’s yoga teacher with a love of all things lunar I often get pigeonholed into the calm, quiet and restful category. I have also to
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Carly Slade
- Aug 6, 2019
- 2 min
Choosing radical acceptance of self and others
All that you admire in others is that which you already are
All that you reject in others is that which you reject in yourself
These are wo
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Carly Slade
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
Lives ruled by time
Recently I was thinking about how time rules almost the entirety of our lives. An alarm to wake up at a particular time, taking waking temps
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Carly Slade
- Aug 6, 2018
- 3 min
Coming to know and name my emotional shut down response... (Wednesday Adams)
I used to think that I was unable to feel emotions. I would be right in the middle of a fight with a loved one and be counting the...
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Carly Slade
- Jul 19, 2018
- 2 min
When women come together in the forest magic happens
Back from our Women's Nature & Yoga Retreat in Cornwall last week and 4 days later I still don't truly have words for the experience of...
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Carly Slade
- Jul 1, 2018
- 5 min
Learning the joys of shutting up...
When I was 25 I read a book called ‘Eastern Body Western Mind’ by Anodea Judith, a recommended reading for my Yoga Teacher Training...
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Carly Slade
- Jun 11, 2018
- 1 min
All things are illuminated in the desert...
Yesterday was a real challenge. I was feeling hardened, cold, stuck, rigid and shut down. Deeply engrained coping strategies that were...
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Carly Slade
- Apr 28, 2018
- 4 min
Wildness as a Problem to be Solved
As a society we are afraid of wildness and the wildness from which we came is now regarded as an obstacle to be overcome and a problem to...
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Carly Slade
- Apr 25, 2018
- 2 min
Mirrored Expectations
‘What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.’ ~ Gandhi We can...
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Carly Slade
- Apr 24, 2018
- 2 min
Healing from Hopelessness
The Earth is suffering and we are suffering too and sometimes the magnitude of the problem can feel overwhelming. When in the depths of...
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Carly Slade
- Nov 12, 2016
- 2 min
Futility is an Incredibly Powerful Sedative
Futility is an incredibly powerful sedative and something we can feel when decisions are made unjustly. Sometimes we need to be reminded...
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Carly Slade
- Nov 4, 2016
- 3 min
Body fluid. Mind still.
Water is an incredible element from which we can learn so much! It has a depth that goes far beyond its shimmering surface and it is...
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