Earth day
I’ll be setting a strong intention this Earth Day to be more appreciative of all that the Earth does for us. Please join me and do the same! This day encourages us to raise our voices and remind one another of how important our Earth is. Law of Attraction says that...
Loss during Lockdown
So many of us have had to deal with unprecedented loss over the last twelve months. I just want to share something that is going on in my heart today. This morning I watched a live stream of the funeral of a member of my family who took his own life in the week before...
The Most Ecstatic Way to Weight Loss Ever
This is the week where we have been focusing on the theme: "Don't do it! Don't diet!" One of the reasons why diets don't work in 95% of cases, especially if you have a history of emotional eating, is because of chemistry. When you restrict your food, your body...
My Lockdown Story
6May, 2020 Well my friends, what a ride!! If you'd told me that we'd be worried about running out of toilet paper, we'd be in lockdown at home and only allowed out for an hour-a-day, my business would be halted and I would be unable to hug my family and friends for a...
When We Binge in Private
Chinmayi reveals how most of us binge alone and how we can use tapping (EFT) in those moments to turn our tendencies from bingeing to bliss.
Why Timing is Everything for a Home Retreat
For some years now I’ve been trying to live, think and work differently. Still, I’m not there. I’ve had a push to make myself a priority with my own retreat.
Retreat Repeat
For some years now I’ve been trying to live, think and work differently. Still, I’m not there. I’ve had a push to make myself a priority with my own retreat.
Put It Out!
We can be wise with our creams as well as our sunbathing time. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the sun doesn’t cause cancer, it’s the reaction of the sun on the many chemicals we put on our skin. Here are some insights from a sun-worshipper wit
We Are Family
We can be wise with our creams as well as our sunbathing time. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the sun doesn’t cause cancer, it’s the reaction of the sun on the many chemicals we put on our skin. Here are some insights from a true sun-worshipper with a long-term, natural approach.
Ajo Blanco
The challenge for me, with this version, was to ditch the typical stale bread. So whilst Ajo Blanco is a typical Andalucian soup, I’ve made it without wheat or gluten.
The Judge Won’t Budge
One of the hardest things we can work on is our judgment. Read how yoga can help with this and set you free from your self-limiting beliefs about yourself and others.
The Gastric Extreme
The Truth About the Gastric Sleeve and Lap-band Surgery and Why it Won’t Help You With Emotional Eating
Why Imbolc is Such an Important Time
One thing that I have carried with me since my shamanic healer studies, every single day, is going with nature's flow. Letting it be. Trusting in the Universe. Allowing the angels to step in or whatever your beliefs may be. Honouring the daylight, the night...
I Really Just Can’t Be Bothered With Getting Fit and Healthy!
Real Life Story – “I Really Just Can’t Be Bothered!” – Why January is the Wrong Time of Year to be Trying so Hard
Help from Hindsight
Chinmayi teaches us how to shift powerful emotions by looking forward to a likely outcome of any challenging situation
Feeling Fraught After the Feast?
Dieting, fasting, food supplementation, exercise compensation, or whatever suffering you want to self-impose is DANGEROUS. Make this year different.
Are You Ever Satisfied?
All over social media, we’re told to strive, push and battle with our bodies. Never settle! Never be satisfied. The big BUT here is this: Do you really want to live a life of dissatisfaction?
Being Busy
If you want to see real progress, it’s not the tools that make it happen, it’s your consistent action using them and your state of emotional being.
I’m not Flexible Enough!
It’s a bit like saying, “I can’t eat because I’m too hungry” or “I can’t put my coat on because it’s too cold”! You come to yoga BECAUSE you want to be more flexible!
New Yoga Resolutions
Don't Wait For 2018!! We spend a lot of time looking forward. Especially in this coming season, as we approach our resolutions and plans for the next year, work budget and targets, personal goals like holiday and home plans. But barring new years resolutions for a...
Energy In Motion
Your birthright is to a blissful life, free from emotional stores which result in emotional eating or binge eating or any other numbing-out habits you have picked up on the way.
The School Of Hard Knocks
From the early days of yoga to learning how to help others through the many methods and therapies I have learned and mastered, I have gradually come to realise that there is no destination to this path. Learning is eternal.
Could Diet Claims Become Illegal?
I’ve just come off Facebook and feel passionate about sharing my thoughts about the latest diet and fitness ads showing up in my newsfeed. I hope and believe that in the next few years, most of the diet industry will be regulated in some way.
How Yoga Benefits Your Whole Life
Yoga is such a lifeline that I can honestly feel the drudgery of life’s poo when I don’t practice.
Fighting the Flab
If you have any interest in the Law of Attraction or have read anything about affirmations, you’ll know that we have to be mindful of the words we say to ourselves!
Diet Despair to Love
Learn about The Diet Cycle of Despair, how to break it and replace it with love.
We Grow Old Because We Stop Playing
I don’t want to dwell too much on when I stopped playing as a child. The other day, I read that the average 40-year-old has had three disasters in their life, which can change the way they look at the world. I’ve had a few, and I know I’m not alone.
A Poem For You About a Dream That Came True
Dreams really can come true. If you believe in anything, let it be your biggest dreams. Included in this post is a poem from Chinmayi about her manfesting moment.
Nature Walk
I feel like nature and I have once again become well acquainted. I realised that the spirit they talk about in the world of shamanism is nature. It is a combination of the elements. From the gross of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air to the more subtle of Space, Light, and Spirit itself. In my experience, this embodiment is yoga.
Giving in to the process!
"I Surrender" One of my amazing yoga teachers Dr Kumar talks about three steps to yoga. He doesn’t mean the practices of yoga. In this context, he means a feeling of enlightenment, bliss or at least a feeling of inner peace. The first step is surrender. Surrender What...
Starved of Love?
Loving Food Loves YOU! I'm just back from a 5-day Women’s Healing Retreat in the UK. This was the first time I’ve run a retreat like this. It was nothing short of a wonderful experience for me, and from the feedback I’ve had so far, life-changing Ifor some....
The Good Thing About Emotional Eating
There were so many times I felt that it would be easier if I just went back to the old me. There was a payoff to staying in the depression and grief I had before I committed to a lifetime of holistic practice.
Know Yourself Using the Enneagram
Not only does it highlight our challenges which can often lead to comfort-searching from food
MAGIC! – whatever the weather!
I’ve been conditioned to feel a certain way in certain weather.
Ever noticed how in movies it’s nearly always raining at funerals and sunny at weddings?
Isn’t it strange how we fall into these patterns and beliefs?
Ground Almonds
Almonds Are Forever! What Are Almonds? Although the greatest producer of almonds in the world is now the US, they traditionally hail from the Mediterranean. They grow on trees, these days in groves. They flower the most beautiful blossom in Spring, then within a...
I Just Don’t Have Time!
Time is becoming one of the most valuable commodities for humankind. In times of overwhelm and self-sabotage, it can be dis-empowering.
What to Do When the S*** Hits the Fan
How to react and respond differently when the s**t hits the fan.
5 Reasons Why Diets Fail after the Holidays
February is the time when most people give up on their diets. We can often feel like a failure. Chinmayi explains why this is definitely not the case. Science included!
The Good Thing About New Years Resolutions
Goals are very important for me. I do make them before the new year, at the end of every month and the night before every day. Sometimes it’s in my head but usually, it’s in my diary or on my laptop.
Chinmayi’s Choice – Hemp Protein Powder
In this article, I've selected hemp as an awesome versatile product that I used almost every day. I've also included a favourite recipe for you get some more hemp in your life! What Is It? The latin name of the plant is Cannabis sativa, but has a tiny trace or...
Mercury Madness and G&T (a soother?)
This seems to be a trying time for many of us.
The Good, the Bad and the Easy Book Launch
I am delighted to tell you that my book, BodyMAGIC! launch was a great success.
Off the wall and Up the wall!
What a weekend! I’ve done a 99c/99p promotion this week which has seen BodyMAGIC! soar up to the top of the charts. I can definitely now call it a Bestseller!
10 Healthy Ways to Stay Warm This Winter
How do you feel when you have to pack your shorts and vests away and reach for your woolies and coats.
Red Rag To A Bull! – Emotional Reactions
Here in Castril, Spain, in a couple of weeks time, we have a fiesta which includes a bull run. If you haven’t a clue what that is, I’ll describe it as politically neutrally as I can…
Confessions of an Emotional Overeater
This might be the saddest reflective emotional overeating post I’ve ever written…
Eating for Comfort
Why am I Comfort Eating? Why do all my good intentions around eating fly out of the window when I feel blue? Comfort eating is a very nice phrase we often use to describe emotional eating disorder. Of course there are different degrees of emotional eating. For some,...
A Mother’s Tale – and a little lesson for us all
Happy Mother's Day Today is a very special day whether you still have your mum around or whether you have your own kids to spoil you. And if you have neither, we can always consider this day for our super Mother Earth and all her gifts. It's a great day for showing...
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Is it Really ‘All About Balance?’
Balance Ye Not! This weekend is Spring Vernal Equinox, a time when daylight and nighttime are the same. The sun rises and sets at the same time. Twelve hours apart. The perfect balance. I am reminded of the balance that we strive for when we are stressed and feel our...
Why ChinmayiMAGIC!’s Retreats ROCK!
Here's 10 Fab Reasons Why Our Retreats Rock! 1. The Yoga and Meditation we practice on our retreats is an original, mindful, authentic practice from Rishikesh at the foothills and rocks of the Himalayas in India. Each holistic practice includes a philosophical focus...
Routine and Temptations
The MAGIC! is in my Routine… I’ve been feeling so well this week! After a recent trip to the UK to celebrate my 50th birthday, I’m back in Spain and getting back into my routine. Although for three weeks I still had an irritating cough left over from one of the worst...
Why Dieting Might be Dangerous for your Children.
Could be that our misunderstandings about dieting are making natural weight management more difficult for our children and grandchildren?
Let YOUR love flow – A Valentine to the Self!
You Gotta Get, to Give! How can you really show unconditional love to others if you don’t receive it yourself? I see this paradigm in so many of my students and clients. They assume that they will feel loved and receive love if they give, share and do things...