The Course Has Finished. Now what? 🤷‍♀️

Most people think finishing a course is the achievement.It’s not. It’s what you do the week after. The Ashtanga course has finished. Five weeks.Five Saturday mornings.Sun Salutes that, at first, felt like being slowly folded into an envelope you hadn’t agreed to enter… and then, somehow, became m... Read More

You Don’t Need Motivation — You Need Rhythm

You Don’t Need Motivation — You Need Rhythm“I just need to get my motivation back.” I hear this all the time. Usually said with a slightly defeated tone, as if motivation has wandered off somewhere and might return if we’re patient enough. It won’t. Motivation is unreliable. It's like your flakie... Read More

The Gate I Don’t Open

Every year, without fail, I abandon my garden. Not in a dramatic, windswept, “nature reclaims all things” sort of way. More a quiet passive-aggressive neglect. I simply… stop going in there. It’s not even attached to the house. It sits about 30 paces away, behind a fence. Which, in winter, might ... Read More

The Problem With “Listening to Your Body" in Yoga

“Just listen to your body.” You’ll hear this in almost every yoga class. It’s up there with “drop your shoulders” and “take a deep breath”. It sounds wise. Grounded. Like something you’d nod along to while pretending you fully understand what’s going on. The problem is — it’s so vague it’s almost... Read More

What Does a Good Yoga Class Look Like?

I went to a yoga class at the London Buddhist Centre recently. And I really enjoyed it. Not because the teaching was exceptional — it wasn’t. There were no adjustments.No real feedback.Very little explanation. There was an unspoken assumption that you could follow. And if you couldn’t… you’d work... Read More

Rearing at the Fence: The Strange Resistance to Returning to Routine

A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting in the sunshine in March —the first real warmth my skin had felt all year —in Zagreb, feeling like an entirely new and superior version of myself. Relaxed.Present.Deeply content.The kind of person who probably drinks water regularly and makes excellent life ch... Read More

What Kind of Yoga Do You Teach? (Why I HATE the this question)

There is a question that strikes mild but immediate dread into the heart of many yoga teachers. It sounds innocent enough. Perfectly reasonable.Almost polite. “What kind of yoga do you teach?” Now, I understand why people ask this. They are simply trying to work out whether they will enjoy the cl... Read More

Yogi Spotlight on Bella Minichiello

My name is Bella Minichiello. I’m 27 and work as a Senior Support Worker in a children’s home. I first discovered Jordanna’s yoga classes in 2023 after seeing a poster at the Hunter Club. At the time I was trying to move away from the nights-out drinking lifestyle and reconnect with myself by doi... Read More

Someone Was Sitting On MY Bench

I didn’t want to go out. It was cold. It was wet. I was tired in that deep, low-battery way where even putting socks on feels like an unreasonable request. Every part of me wanted to stay in, stay warm, stay still. But this is what I do now. I go anyway. So I pulled on my coat and went for my dai... Read More

The Moment Before the Story

I’ve been binge listening to Desert Island Discs again. The first time I did this was during a very specific season of life — lots of driving, lots of worry, visiting my daughter in a psychiatric ward. Back then, I think I was drawn to stories of resilience. People who kept going. Lives that held... Read More