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Rachel H.

Cambridge, United Kingdom
bookworm, geek, yoga teacher, yoga student, writer, reader, blogger, committed partner, cook, knitter, watercolour painter, list writer, cataloguer, bad speller, Fibromyalgia sufferer, woman with a crooked spine, feminist, meditator, swimmer, gym junkie, passionate organic foodie, short, skinny,... Full Bio
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the serenity seasons ecourse: presale starts 1st december by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga This Saturday 1st December I am launching the presale for the Serenity Seasons ecourse . This course combines yoga + journalling to open you up to possibility in 201 ... Read on »
start 2013 the right way: the serenity seasons podcasts by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga Hello everyone!  Just checking in to let you know of a new offering I have planned for the new year.  Don’t forget to register with my Fusion Blog for more info as well as ... Read on »
ME20: the last post by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga And so.  There it is. The story of 20 years of M.E.  I hope you weren’t too bored. I wrote it as a piece of therapeutic writing really, something to remind me that alt ... Read on »
ME20: leaving the ratrace by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga The decision to leave my well paid, secure office job was not an easy one.  And it was a long time coming. As I mentioned in a previous post , the thing about returning t ... Read on »
ME20: the yogas by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga The problem with yoga, like so many things in the world, is doing it right. I don’t mean doing it right in a “thou must get thy leg behind thy head” type way. No, I m ... Read on »
ME20: two city jobs + a masters degree by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga After putting off getting a proper job for more than long enough, my first office job was in a school.  It paid almost as badly as waiting tables and it just happened to b ... Read on »
ME20: a degree, some bishops + learning to type by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga I can remember going to get my hair cut one very wet afternoon half way through my first year at university.  It would have been February or March of 1995.  I felt terribl ... Read on »
ME20: A Levels, dancing + australia by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga Here is a life lesson. Don’t ignore glandular fever.  Better still find a decent doctor who will diagnose it when you have it and not tell you much later on that you h ... Read on »
ME20: an introduction by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga If you follow me on The Book of Faces, you will already know that May marks the 20th anniversary of my initial diagnosis of having M.E. I was 17 and just about to tak ... Read on »
may intentions and april in review by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga ( source ) It doesn’t feel like May.  It’s freezing for starters.  Apparently we’re going to have the coldest May on record or something. And the rain it raineth. UK wea ... Read on »
thursdays by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga ( source ) Back when I used to do the 9-5, I always found Thursdays a bit of a slog.  They always seemed to drag on interminably …. waiting, waiting, waiting for the wee ... Read on »
my most beautiful thing… by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga Today I’m taking part in the My Most Beautiful Thing Blogsplash to celebrate beautiful things – inspired by Fiona Robyn’s new novel, The Most Beautiful Thing . Bloggers f ... Read on »
to tweet or not to tweet by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga ( source ) Remember how  I gave up Twitter for Lent ? I felt kind of uncomfortable doing so.  I felt like I’d miss out on huge things.  Massive things that I absol ... Read on »
a question of etiquette by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga This is a post from a couple of years ago that I’ve dug up because it’s something that keeps niggling at me over and over again, especially now I’m beginning my journey as ... Read on »
five things i’m loving right now by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga (source) 1. Tulips: My garden is full of them – red ones, yellow and black ones and some awesome purple and white striped ones that I planted last November and prom ... Read on »
the “field of dreams” business plan by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga ( source ) You know the story.  Kevin Costner hears voices telling him “if you build it, they will come”**, so he builds a baseball pitch in his back garden.  Everyone t ... Read on »
coping with criticism by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga ( source ) About a year ago I got an email from a client. He’d only been for one treatment for a calf injury and he wrote to tell me that the soft tissue work I’d ... Read on »
april intentions + march in review by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga ( source ) I am nursing tea and the tail end of a cold and thinking about how this time last year I was getting ready to go to Australia. Whilst nursing tonsilitus.  S ... Read on »
taking what you can get by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga (I may look serene in this photo, but it transpired that I was sitting in a patch of stinging nettles….) Since childhood I’ve always had an idea of how I wanted l ... Read on »
the first three months by Rachel H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga There is a part of me, a small almost primal part, that worries every year that winter will NEVER END and I will have to put up with this grey, damp, cold, darkness F ... Read on »