Paula Hines is a senior yoga instructor and author from London. She has practised and studied yoga since 2001 and has been instructing since 2011, now with a specific concentrate on restorative yoga, yin yoga and yoga nidra. Her personal expertise of yoga as a instrument for transformation led her to instructing after fourteen years of working within the TV business 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 instructor 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 I nonetheless do some occasional script improvement work (in my outdated job I used to be a script editor), although yoga and writing are presently my focus.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 like for you?
As a self-employed freelancer, my schedule tends to differ day-to-day and over the course of the yr. It depends upon whether or not I’m extra in instructing mode, writing mode or script mode. Relying on the sort 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 instructor?
I began yoga in 2001 as a technique to ease stress and again ache. A colleague steered yoga may be useful and I believed it was value a strive. I used to be working full-time in TV – very lengthy hours and late nights had been the norm. I did certainly acquire reduction from again ache and stress, however I additionally gained rather more. For those who’d instructed me again then that I’d find yourself instructing yoga I’d have in all probability 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 among the advantages I had skilled overrode all the things.
What impressed you to concentrate on your follow?
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 plenty 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 after they arrived. In a restorative session, particularly, I take pleasure in when you may sense the calm within the house as nervous techniques settle. From the suggestions I obtain afterwards, I discover that individuals who expertise situations resembling C-PTSD, continual fatigue, nervousness, insomnia, continual stress and extra often inform me they’ve discovered the practices useful. Although yoga isn’t a remedy 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 discovered 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.”
