A few weeks ago I wrote about a beautiful new form of yoga called AntiGravity Aerial Yoga. It still hasn’t arrived in Sydney, but I am craving its incredible stretching and lengthening benefits, particularly as my deadlines have recently become really fierce and I’m spending 12 or more hours each day hunched over the computer. Deadlines or not, ‘hunched over the computer’ is a posture most of find ourselves sitting in for a great deal of our day. Whether it’s work, school studies, social media or simply life administration, there are few things in modern life that don’t involve leaning 

The water element is fluid and hides within its depths many secrets and mysteries. Like the yawning unconscious is associated with water, the meridians of Kidney and Bladder operate within the same watery depths. Kidney holds the Jing or inherited essence, that which we receive from our parents and which forms the foundation of our constitution. Bladder is the storehouse of memories, master of the spine and keeper of the nervous system. Water energy peaks in the winter season, late in the seasonal year and correspondingly late in life, representing, symbolically the time before death, and even death itself. So