Rosie Lux
Yoga Teacher

I recently read How to Be Hopeful by Caitlin Moran, and there are a few bits I keep coming back to. One of them is her observation that we live in an anxious age. It’s hard to argue with that. You can open your phone first thing in the morning and, before you’ve even got out of bed, absorb climate news, politics, someone else’s crisis and approximately seventeen things you should apparently be worrying about. What I really liked was the idea that being hopeful doesn’t mean pr

I’ve been interested in Ayurveda for much longer than I realised. My mum had books about Ayurveda when I was growing up, so it was just… around. Which probably explains some of the slightly odd things that were considered completely normal in our house. I had very weird packed lunches. While everyone else seemed to have sandwiches and crisps, I was rocking up with some sort of lentil situation. There were also almost always bowls of beans soaking in water overnight in the kit

It's hot. The kind of heat that slows everything down. The kind that makes tempers a little shorter, sleep a little lighter, and patience a little harder to find. In the UK, we're not especially well-equipped for prolonged heat. Our homes are built to keep warmth in, not let it out, and suddenly everyone is searching for fans, hiding in the shade and counting down the hours until it cools. Discomfort has a way of revealing us. When life is comfortable, it's easy to believe we