About Laura Laura is a PhD candidate in the Music Education program at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Her Doctoral research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, focuses on the ways in which involuntarily childless women experience community and develop self-empowerment through singing in the Childless Voice Choir in the UK. Her research…
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Rediscovering Me I didn’t meet the right life partner to settle down with and have children. What seemed to come so easily to others eluded me. Realising it would be too late to meet someone and have children, I attempted fertility treatment on my own, scheduling it around a busy work life, and ultimately it was unsuccessful. My future, which I had always imagined to be the colour pink, was now…
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What is ‘Yin’ yoga? The term ‘Yin’ itself is 3000 years old, and is often referred to in conjunction with its partner term ‘Yang’. Yin can be translated as ‘shady’ and described as ‘cooler, slower, inner’, whereas yang can be translated as ‘sunny’ and described as ‘warmer, quicker, outer’.1 In essence, yin and yang are about balance. Yin yoga can be described in basic terms as a practice which…
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Asana is the term used to describe the physical postures of yoga, and is probably what most people think of when they hear the term yoga. In this context one of the most obvious purposes of asana is physical exercise. However, in the classical texts, the purpose of asana extends beyond a form of physical exercise. It appears that the classical texts on Hatha yoga see asana as one of the first…
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