Asana

Pilates and yoga are often lumped together, despite fundamental differences in approach and history. But, as Sally Parkes - who teaches both - explains, they are also complementary.

How often, in real life, do we externally rotate our shoulders? To know what I mean by that, place your hands lightly on front of you, on a desk or shoulder.

Establishing a regular yoga practice is easy to aspire to but often hard to put into action.

Yoga's popularity is at an all-time high: more than 30 million Americans and five million Europeans now practice. But to some, yoga's traditional hippy image sometimes holds strong. Lucia Cockcroft looks behind the myths.