Totally kidding, I haven’t gone out and gotten myself a black eye, this is the way I look when I’m removing my make-up! Normally I don’t wear a lot of make-up, so my pores aren’t very used to being blocked.

This posture is said to benefit all parts of the body, which is probably why it has gotten its name Sarvangasana, meaning “all parts”. According to Swami Sivananda there are three asanas that alone will

How balanced is your Muladhara Chakra? I posted earlier that the Muladhara chakra is about being grounded, safe, survival and being connected to the earth. Have a little feel and a little guess on how

You might have been to a yoga class where the instructor said this before and/or after class or maybe you’ve heard it somewhere else, but do you know what it means? In Hinduism this means “I bow to the

Before I start explaining about the chakras in detail, here is a little introduction so you can get a little overview of them. All of the chakras have different meanings and affect different parts of our

#1 Sirsasana - Headstand Sirsasana means head pose but is often called the king pose because of the remarkable benefits it brings to memory and concentration. It’s the most important one amongst the inverted

Asana is a sanskrit word that means "steady pose". Every yoga position has a name that ends with this word. Such as the pose krakasana, consisting of krak and asana meaning crow pose. But what

When I was a teenager I tried to be a Christian, I tried to be a believer. I’m from a part of Norway that is so full of Christians that it is nicknamed “the Bible Belt”, and being surrounded by so many

Ahimsa is a beautiful sanskrit word meaning "non-violence toward living creatures" that has deep roots in Indian and Hindi culture. Imagine not causing any harm to a living being. I think this

Weekend is almost here! Take care of yourself and remember to relax. If you have any challenges coming up, remember this: Have a lovely weekend everyone! Love, Tone

I'm sure we can agree that most of us in the West aren't lacking in the amount of clothes we own. The opposite is more likely. This is something that I've started noticing in the past years, especially

In a regular hatha yoga class there are 12 poses we want to get through. They should all be practiced with steadiness and comfort (don't go so far that you lose control) helping the practitioner be more

To me I don’t think there‘s anything more soothing than the sound of the waves crashing towards the shore. It automatically makes me slow down whatever I’m doing, just to have a listen. It has a hypnotising

Yes, you read right. The posture on the photos below is known to be the most important posture in yoga. Fantastic, right? Depending on how much you know about yoga, you probably thought the headstands,

Earlier this week I went camping with my best friend in the beautiful hills of Norway! Both of us hadn't been camping for ages so we decided to go no matter what the weather would be like! We were ready

When I became a yoga instructor I realised that it is so much more than physical exercise, which is often the biggest part extracted from the yoga philosophies to the west. Breathing is usually also

After I became a yoga instructor I became deeply interested in Ayurveda, yoga philosophy and Hinduism. I love the fact that they look at the body as a whole as supposed to here in the West, where we like

Hello lovely people! My name is Tone, I just turned 26 years old and I live just south of Stavanger, close to the sea on the coast of beautiful Norway. Here's a brief introduction about me. When I was