Jocelyn's blog..

My Blackbird family came into my life in the lockdown summer of 2020. Well, I’m sure they were around long before that, but I simply didn’t notice them or need them until then. First on the scene was a feisty ...

The Yamas are universal moral principles, and the first limb of yoga’s eight step path towards self-realisation. They can be found in Patanjali’s sutras, most probably written between 500 and 200BC, ...

Tapas is one of the five Niyama or personal disciplines in yoga, which focus on our relationship with ourselves. Tapas quite literally means ‘heat’ and equates to self-discipline ...

It’s been a really tough couple of years on so many fronts, hasn’t it? My mat has always helped me ebb and flow with the good and more challenging times in life, but this year I’ve needed it more than ever ...