Move Your Body, Free Your Mind

I’m busy working on something at the moment that involves a lot of sitting down at my desk and tapping away on the computer, sometimes for six hours a day! That seems like loads to me, who usually does quite a bit of wandering round the garden and putting the washing on and inventing new kinds of toasted sandwich between bouts of actual ‘working’, not that I even think of it as ‘work’, but anyway…

So I’m making sure I keep moving, and get outside as much as I can. I take Holly and Freddie to school in the mornings before I sit down, and then I take our dogs for a walk on the heath at lunchtime.

I go swimming a couple of times a week, and yes, I do the actual swimming – although there is also a lot of sitting in the bubbly pool thing and in the steam-room with its lovely multi-coloured twinkly lights!

And for about a year I’ve been doing something called Body Balance, which is a mixture of Thai Chi, Yoga and Pilates, to music. Being gym-phobic, the ab-crunching bit in the middle completely does me in, but apart from that it’s fantastic. I think going into Warrior 2 (see pic below – NOT modelled by me, but nice bra thing!) to the sound of Katy Perry’s track Dark Horse has got to be one of the most empowering things on the planet – I feel like bolts of green lightening are going to start shooting out of my fingertips or something.