We’ve all experienced that pivotal moment when you realise your life needs a total overhaul - maybe you’re exhausted after a full night’s sleep, running on a short fuse and snapping at everyone and everything, or suffering from digestive distress on the daily. But sensing you need a change can feel like a million miles from knowing where to begin. Should you try a new diet? Wake up earlier? Hit the gym? Or take up meditation? The truth, according to many experts, is all four.

We’ve all heard that yoga is good for stress, but how you approach your practice may be the key to whether or not that promise holds true. Understanding how stress operates on your body can help inform how you approach your yoga practice to maximise its stress-busting effects.

Springtime brings a second peak for colds, with erratic temperatures irritating your airwaves and seasonal allergies making many of us more prone to infections. But you don’t have to fall victim to this seasonal assault. Yoga’s holistic sister science, Ayurveda, has long identified spring as a peak time of susceptibility to illness, but it also suggests some simple changes to your lifestyle so that you can bolster your physiology against unwelcome visitors this season.

Are you feeling frazzled, anxious or overwhelmed? Experts agree that the time is now to practice stress reduction strategies to preserve your health and wellbeing. The ongoing financial and social uncertainty surrounding the pandemic has us all on edge, and it’s more important than ever for our health to make time for stress-reduction and self care.