“Yoga IS magic.” After 8 years of teaching it’s easy to forget the transformational, magic that happens each time you step on the mat. It is easy to get caught up with green avocado smoothies and handstands on the beach, the yoga world can at times seem like it is for the super human, hypermobile. Don’t get me wrong - I love looking at those instagram movies - it is motivating and I am in awe daily but there is more. It just might not make such spectacular viewing, does watch

Yoga is defined in Wikipedia as the physical, mental and spiritual practices to transform body and mind. The word, "yoga," is derived from the term for the yoking together of horses or oxen, but it came to be applied to the "yoking" of body and mind. Jinja Community Yoga began in June 2014 when as an expat, and as a yoga teacher I realized there was no sense of yoking or union to the very people whose country I choose to live in. Our differences are huge: skin colour, educati