Paula Hines is a senior yoga trainer and author from London. She has practised and studied yoga since 2001 and has been instructing since 2011, now with a selected concentrate on restorative yoga, yin yoga and yoga nidra. Her personal expertise of yoga as a device for transformation led her to instructing after fourteen years of working within the TV trade and fuels her want to share the life-enhancing advantages of yoga with others. She is creator of the guide, Relaxation + Calm: Light yoga and aware practices to nurture and restore your self (Inexperienced Tree, Bloomsbury Publishing) and a columnist for OM Yoga Journal.
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Inform us a bit about your self…
I’m Paula, a yoga trainer and author from London. I’ve practised yoga for over 20 years and after a 14-year full-time profession in tv, the place I additionally wrote comedy, I started instructing yoga in 2011. I’ve additionally written for OM Yoga Journal since 2011 and my guide, Relaxation + Calm: Light yoga and aware practices to nurture and restore your self was revealed in 2022. I nonetheless do some occasional script growth work (in my previous job I used to be a script editor), although yoga and writing are presently my focus. My instructing has an emphasis on restorative yoga, yin, yoga nidra and yoga for menopause.
What does a typical day appear to be for you?
As a self-employed freelancer, my schedule tends to fluctuate day-to-day and over the course of the 12 months. It is determined by whether or not I’m extra in instructing mode, writing mode or script mode. Relying on the type of work I’m doing I could be studying scripts or writing an article within the daytime and instructing yoga within the night.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to turn out to be a yoga trainer?
I began yoga in 2001 as a solution to ease stress and again ache. A colleague prompt yoga could be useful and I believed it was price a attempt. I used to be working full-time in TV – very lengthy hours and late nights have been the norm. I did certainly achieve reduction from again ache and stress, however I additionally gained rather more. In case you’d informed me again then that I’d find yourself instructing yoga I’d have most likely laughed in your face! However yoga unexpectedly grew to become a giant a part of my life and it reached a degree the place my want to share with others a number of the advantages I had skilled overrode every thing.
What impressed you to specialise in your follow?
That is one thing I’ve written about in Relaxation + Calm, the place I share a few of my story. By way of restorative yoga, it was harm, discovering I had a persistent situation and burnout. I’d been doing a whole lot of dynamic asana follow that (unbeknownst to me on the time) was exacerbating the bodily ache I used to be experiencing. Restorative yoga mixed with yoga remedy modified the way in which I follow and train.
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
After I’m instructing I see the variations in individuals on the finish of a category or workshop in comparison with once they arrived. In a restorative session, particularly, I get pleasure from when you may sense the calm within the house as nervous methods settle. From the suggestions I obtain afterwards, I discover that individuals who expertise situations comparable to C-PTSD, persistent fatigue, anxiousness, insomnia, persistent stress and extra recurrently inform me they’ve discovered the practices useful. Although yoga isn’t a treatment all, it’s rewarding to have the ability to share practices that provide tangible advantages and to see these optimistic outcomes.
What’s your favorite quote or life motto?
It’s the Maya Angelou quote, “I’ve realized that folks will overlook what you stated, individuals will overlook what you probably did, however individuals will always remember the way you made them really feel.”
