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Does your posture alter the look of your outfit?

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Does your posture alter the look of your clothes? Yes, it most certainly does, you hear so much these days about getting your body into alignment, and it certainly makes a difference. Not only to how you look but how your clothes look too. I go to a regular yoga class and each week we work on a different part of the body. This week we were working on our shoulders and so many of us are round shouldered due to sitting at a desk on our computers or mobile phones. Does your posture alter the look of your outfit? Does your posture alter the look of your outfit? Standing up to your full height can make a huge difference. As I am tall, growing up I didn’t want to tower over my friends and so I was inclined to stoop to make myself not look so tall. I was bullied for being tall and thin so thought it was not good to be that way. I wanted to be small and petite but I think that was because I wanted to blend in and not stand out. Fast forward till now, I am proud of my height, I love my long legs even though it is a problem ordering trousers to ensure they are long enough. It is important to stand tall. I love giraffes as many of you know and look how graceful they are standing full height. This photograph was taken last November at my niece’s wedding…

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Here are the positive things I have learnt during lock down

Here are the positive things I have learnt during lock down As we are being drip feed negative news every day on the TV it is sometimes hard to remain positive. I try not to listen to the news to often and especially not last thing at night, but do listen to the teatime update so I am aware of what is going on. This time will pass and who knows that the new normal will be, but it will pass. I wanted to share with you some of the positive things I have been doing to cope with the lock down and what I have learnt. Here are the positive things I have learnt during lock down I did not want to look back after this time and think that I wasted the time that I had. In normal day to day living most of us say if I only had time, I would do …. Well now I did have the time,and this is what I did.   Stepped up my exercising I usually attended a Pilates class once a week and my Pilates teacher took her classes online with Zoom. This has turned out great for me as I now do two classes a week instead of my usual one. I bought myself an exercise resistant band and now do another class on YouTube using the bands. This is helping particularly with my upper body strength. I have also done a few routines with my daughter on…

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