Psychologies

Rest to reset

When I first started practising yoga, I’d always leave the class before that bit at the end where you do nothing but lie there. It’s called Savasana, or ‘corpse pose’, but it just felt like dead time to me – time I could spend on getting things done.

Work is now so central to our idea of who we are that many people find it disorientating when they no longer have a job. When the pandemic came along and we had to collectively stop doing things in the way

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