Talking Points

I am lying down on a comfy couch in a private treatment room in West London's Special Yoga Centre. But this is no massage session or body treatment: I am here to re-learn how to breathe.

Are you considering training to be a yoga teacher but aren't sure where to start?

Sharath Rangaswamy, grandson to the late Sri K Pattabhi Jois, led a buzzing week-long ashtanga yoga intensive in London last week. Emma Hicks, roving reporter and ashtanga teacher was there.

Yoga is increasingly used to aid addiction recovery. London-based yoga teacher and retreat leader Cherie Lathey outlines how, and why.

Ashtanga master Pattabhi Jois dedicated his life to ashtanga vinyasa yoga, and is widely credited with bringing the practice to a mass western audience