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 need to share the life-enhancing advantages of yoga with others. She is writer of the guide, Relaxation + Calm: Mild yoga and conscious 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: Mild yoga and conscious practices to nurture and restore your self was printed in 2022. I nonetheless do some occasional script improvement work (in my outdated job I used to be a script editor), although yoga and writing are at present my focus.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 differ day-to-day and over the course of the 12 months. It relies on whether or not I’m extra in instructing mode, writing mode or script mode. Relying on the type of work I’m doing I may 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 grow to be a yoga trainer?
I began yoga in 2001 as a option to ease stress and again ache. A colleague urged yoga may be useful and I assumed it was value a attempt. I used to be working full-time in TV – very lengthy hours and late nights had been the norm. I did certainly achieve reduction from again ache and stress, however I additionally gained far more. For those who’d advised me again then that I might find yourself instructing yoga I might have most likely laughed in your face! However yoga unexpectedly turned an enormous a part of my life and it reached some extent the place my need to share with others a number of the advantages I had skilled overrode all the things.
What impressed you to specialise in your apply?
That is one thing I’ve written about in Relaxation + Calm, the place I share a few of my story. When it comes to restorative yoga, it was damage, discovering I had a continual situation and burnout. I’d been doing quite a lot of dynamic asana apply 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 apply and educate.
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
Once I’m instructing I see the variations in folks on the finish of a category or workshop in comparison with once they arrived. In a restorative session, particularly, I take pleasure in when you’ll be able to sense the calm within the area as nervous techniques settle. From the suggestions I obtain afterwards, I discover that individuals who expertise situations resembling C-PTSD, continual fatigue, anxiousness, insomnia, continual stress and extra commonly 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 constructive outcomes.
What’s your favorite quote or life motto?
It’s the Maya Angelou quote, “I’ve realized that individuals will neglect what you mentioned, folks will neglect what you probably did, however folks will always remember the way you made them really feel.”
