With lockdown restrictions tightening and the distance you can travel for exercise getting ever narrower, it might be that you are exercising alone a lot more at the moment. If, like me, you need a bit of extra motivation, a distraction, or just a bit of company while you are out on those solo stints, […]
BOOK REVIEW // Sunday Brunch
Have you ever watched Sunday Brunch? It airs every Sunday on Channel 4 and has been a huge success since its start in 2014. If you are like me, you will no doubt love a good cookbook and what better than having one you are able to customise? The new offering from Sunday Brunch allows you […]
BOOK REVIEW // This One Wild and Precious Life
This week HLL reviewer Lisa has been reading This One Wild and Precious Life by Sarah Wilson. Sarah is a former journalist and TV presenter, author and activist. She wrote the New York Times bestsellers I Quit Sugar and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful. In her latest book, Sarah journeys through the complexities of climate change, coronvirus, racial inequalities. […]
The Bonnington: A Community Café
In these times more than ever, I feel strongly about the value of social enterprises in London and the need to shine a light on their activities. I’ve written before about Sarah Bentley and her work with Made In Hackney, and have also mentioned the Luminary Bakery, which offers opportunities to women at a social […]
INTERVIEW: Cirque Du Soleil Performer Shelli Epstein
Cirque du Soleil returns to the Royal Albert Hall, with it’s incredible and ground breaking 30th anniversary production of LUZIA, which brings traditional and contemporary circus disciplines to a whole new level.
TRIED & TESTED: GET A DRIP – IV VITAMIN HYDRATION THERAPY
Get A Drip, founded by Richard Chambers, has the clear vision to make IV Vitamin Hydration therapy affordable and accessible to everyone. We sent Healthy Living London’s Lucinda to test out the Energy Drip at the company’s latest clinic, which has just opened at Westfield. Get a drip? As I approached the clinic at the Westfield […]
INTERVIEW // Sarah Bentley, Made in Hackney
When Eliza, my editor at Healthy Living London, suggested I reach out to Sarah Bentley for an interview on raising a plant-based family and her thoughts on the vegan movement more widely, I jumped at the chance. For those unfamiliar with Sarah’s work, she is one of the co-founders and project directors of the first […]
An Interview with Adiba and Ghazal from Inhere Meditation
Helping Londoners ‘stop, pause and hear themselves again’, HLL headed down to the Inhere meditation studio to meet up with Adiba and Ghazal, and learn more about the holistic benefits meditation can offer the body, mind and spirit. ‘Inhere’ means to ‘exist within’. Most people live busy lives and the element of self-care can often […]
Q & A With Peter Lang, Recovering Alcoholic and Drug Addict
When your vices turn into something more, and you can’t see past your next ‘fix’, you’re considered addicted. An addict is, as defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary, ‘a person who cannot stop doing or using something, especially something harmful‘. Addiction destroys lives and yet it’s something which can happen to anyone, regardless of race, […]
WE WENT // SIXPAD LAUNCH LONDON
Healthy Living London was invited to the launch of SIXPAD’S first flagship European store at Westfield in London. The event consisted of a two hour session, where we were taken through a workout, designed exclusively for SIXPAD by Cristiano Ronaldo, followed by a trial of the Japanese fit-tech brand’s core technology Abs Belt – a […]