Wishing our listeners a bright and happy New Year. We hope you enjoy this uplifting meditation written by Mike Dooley, read by Shann and with music by Ananga.

Yoga Qi Gong both favour still, standing poses, to develop core strength, stability and peace. Standing poses invoke the mood of the mountain - still, immovable and solid, whatever weather crashes over head or blows around it, it stands strong, tall and unchanged. With many of us surrounded by a variety of noise and hustle and bustle throughout the day (and sometimes the night too) it’s important that we find the time to recharge and ground ourselves before our energy gets depleted by pure lack of true peace and rest. In this podcast, Ananga shares a simple exercise using meridian energy points that can help you feel calm and grounded whenever you need to.

As we alter our clocks and acknowledge the fact that summer is gone and we have weeks of long dark evenings ahead, many of us begin to feel the urge to hibernate. We get sluggish and sleepy and we resent the lack of light. Sometimes we feel anxious or mildly depressed as the weeks roll by and we wait for spring to lighten things up again.
In this podcast Shann shares three simple ways to fend off the blues and nurture your light side..

In this podcast I'm sharing how you can learn to calm your mind by engaging it fully in the little things you do every day: walking, cooking, reading, washing dishes. There are so many opportunities to master your mind and reign in negative thinking.