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Originally from Italy, Alessia is a light-hearted, down to earth yoga teacher with a passion for movement and meditation.

19/09/2025

Day 18 of my menstrual cycle - I feel like I'm thinning out.

Today, everything is a little too much. I want to disappear into a quiet cave, and I also want someone to hold me. If you hug me today, I may cry.

I hear my inner autumn calling.

📸

10/09/2025

Spring is stirring inside me.
Day 9 of my cycle, and I can feel myself emerging; still holding on to my depths, yet softening into lightness and joy. Simply put, the pleasure of being human.

Spring isn’t always easy for me. I’m an all-or-nothing person, so this liminal space of tender sprouting and exploring can feel a little uncomfortable.

But as always, I pause, notice what is, and meet myself with compassion. Learning to weave together all my pieces. Trusting that autumn and winter will call me back into my depths when it’s time.

✨ But for now, I’m embracing spring and the gifts it brings. This season will be filled with offerings that are deeply close to my heart:

🌿 October 12 – Yin & Pin with the amazing .am.drsonic Brighton
🌿 October 19 – The Yin Path Teacher Training Info Session with the beautiful .yoga
🌿 October 26 – Yin & Touch with my darling .yoga
🌿 November 14, 15, 22, 23 – The Yin Path Teacher Training
🌿 November 29, 30 – Hepburn Springs Retreat

If one of these calls to you, my DMs are open. 💛

yoga am.drsonic

08/08/2025

There is but one disease," said Paracelsus, "and its name is congestion."

Congestion can mean so many things: stuck blood, stuck breath, stuck emotions, stuck thoughts. Stuck fascia. Stuck stories. When things aren’t flowing, we start to feel off. Disconnected. Heavy.

I've definitely felt stuck throughout this trip, but yoga (mostly in the form of my yin evening practices) has reminded me over and over again that I don’t always need to push or fix. Sometimes, I just need to soften. To pause. To breathe into the stuckness and wait for it to move in its own time.

26/07/2025

Distance gives you perspective.
Perspective helps you grow.

I’ve lived far from Italy for a long time now. And every time I come back, it stirs up more than I expect.

It’s beautiful and groundind, but also disorienting. Old patterns resurface. The version of me that once belonged here doesn’t quite fit anymore.

Being away for so long has given me a different lens. I see things I didn’t see before. I question things I used to accept. And I carry pieces of both my worlds now, the one I came from and the one I’ve built.

Coming back’s been tough, but it’s also reminded me how much I’ve grown, how much I’ve changed. And that I get to choose who I want to be every time I come home.

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28/06/2025

When you lack depth in your everyday life, you’ll often reach for it in other people’s stories, in distant cultures, in borrowed rituals. In the yoga world, that can show up as a hunger for the exotic; the Sanskrit, the mantras, the mysticism of Indian traditions.

Don’t get me wrong! I love all of that. I’ve studied it deeply. I hold a Master’s degree in Asian Studies and completed my 500-hour teacher training in India. My love for culture and philosophy runs deep, and it’s shaped who I am in profound ways.

But what I’m most proud of now is teaching from my own experience. Because my life has depth; not just the studied kind, but the lived kind. I’ve always been a seeker of meaning, and I’ve found it in both the ordinary and the extraordinary.

In birthing and mothering my children.
In bleeding and resting.
In walking barefoot on the earth.
In stillness. In sensation. In breath.

My life is rich. And it’s from that richness, from the insights that come through living fully and paying attention that I teach. That’s the yoga I share.
That’s the yoga I offer you. ❣️
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One more week to practice with me on the mat before I fly back to Italy for 6 weeks. See you on the mat.

10/06/2025

I’m not one for regrets. But if I could sit across from my younger self, I’d tell her this: "Cycle awareness will give you the answers you're searching for. It will help you feel more connected, more aligned, and more alive."

I was lucky in some ways. My mum never pushed me toward hormonal contraceptives. In fact, she discouraged it. Not because she had all the research, but because she had an instinctive knowing that anything designed to suppress the body’s natural rhythm might come with consequences, even if subtle or slow to show.

Now, years later, I feel so grateful for that - Grazie Mamma ❣️

But what I wish I’d also been told is just how powerful it is to live in sync with your full menstrual cycle. Not just during your bleed, but across all four phases. There is a wild, grounded, intuitive strength that begins to rise when you practise cycle awareness. It’s a kind of inner coherence that’s hard to put into words. But once you experience it, you want every woman out there to know that this power lives in them, too. It’s been there all along, just waiting to be remembered.

Enjoy these silly pictures of my younger self 🤗
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07/06/2025

We met 11 years ago today at a pool party in Beijing. We fell in love pretty much instantly and moved in together after 1 week.

Thanks for being my best friend, pa, handyman, therapist, and the best daddy to our children.

I love you, always, forever .bjj

05/06/2025

We’re so excited to see our November Yin Yoga Training filling up fast!

✨ If this has been on your heart, consider this your gentle nudge. Spots are limited each intake, and we’re already over halfway full.

We’d love to have you on this journey. 💛
(Link in bio to learn more or head to GRY website).
yoga

23/05/2025

There’s a moment every month
right before I bleed
when I feel like walking away from it all.

TEACHING.
SHARING.
CREATING.
MOTHERING.

It’s not dramatic. It’s plain.
Like a dull, grey weight that says:
“This isn’t working.”
“You’re not good enough.”
“Why are you even trying?”

At times I still believe that voice.
I think, maybe I really am in the wrong place.
Maybe I wasn’t meant for this.

At other times I remember.
This isn’t the truth.
It’s a clear-out.
It’s my system making space.
Not to give up—
but to shed.
To compost.
To listen in.

These days, when the voice comes, I don't fight it.

I hold it with tenderness.
I make space for quiet.
I stop asking myself to be brilliant.

And somehow, in the softness,
my strength returns.
Not because I pushed through—
but because I let it pass.

21/05/2025

This photo is from a decade ago.
You might not be able to read the yellow warning sign behind my work computer, but it says:
“Caution: Risk of Explosion. Do Not Upset Alessia.” 😅

I often think about the person I used to be—how intense it felt to live in a body that overreacted, to feel constantly hijacked by my emotions.
But the most painful part?
Believing I had no choice.
Believing that was just “who I was.”
So I leaned into that story and became it even more.

Looking back now, I can see how much of that suffering could’ve been softened—if only I’d understood my cycle.
If only I’d been practising yoga and cycle awareness.
If only someone had told me I wasn’t broken—I was just out of sync.

But the truth is, that version of me got me here.
She burned so I could rebuild.

I once read, “When you feel down, don’t trust the way you see yourself.”
That line stuck with me.
Because even now, I still meet glimpses of that old self—especially around the crossover days of my cycle (which I’m super sensitive to).
But now I recognise her.
And I meet her with curiosity instead of fear.

Yoga and menstrual cycle awareness, together with the birth of my children, have shown me that I’m not that firestorm of a girl anymore.
I’m the one who knows how to hold her.

Thanks, .on.insta, for inspiring me to make this post ❣️

19/05/2025

Notice how I chose to refer to the phase before menstruation as PREMENSTRUUM and not PMS because I don't see this phase as a syndrome or something that needs to be "fixed.""

About 10 days before you bleed, you'll feel as if your body has changed gear. And, indeed, it has; your body is asking for a different kind of care, for depth over intensity.

Here are 5 yoga-based remedies that support you from the inside out during the premenstrual phase:

• Slow down to protect your progesterone
• Set clear boundaries
• Embrace Yin and the art of doing less
• Take longer exhalations
• Practise self-compassion when your favourite shapes feel far away

Cycle awareness is YOUR YOGA.

16/05/2025

Here’s what’s happening hormonally and emotionally around Day 7 and Day 22 of a typical ~28-day menstrual cycle:

👉Day 7 – Follicular to Ovulatory Transition

Estrogen is rising quickly, so you may feel a boost in energy, mood, and motivation—but this shift can feel destabilising as hormones surge. How it might feel:

Mood fluctuations or mental “buzziness”

Restlessness or emotional sensitivity

A sense of pressure to be productive - this is what I struggle with the most!

Unease, especially if you're not well-rested - also me cause I'm a mum and never feel well rested 😅

👉Day 22 – Luteal to Menstrual Transition

Progesterone is dropping, often rapidly, if there’s no pregnancy. Estrogen is also falling. This hormonal withdrawal signals the body to prepare for menstruation. How it might feel:

Anxiety or low mood

Increased fatigue and irritability

Feeling sensitive or emotionally raw

A sense that “something’s off” without a clear reason

This is a biologically fragile time. The drop in calming progesterone can leave you feeling unanchored but could actually also bring in altered states of consciousness. It’s a moment of emotional and physical vulnerability—what you do here sets the tone for your bleed.

On crossover days, grounding is everything.

TRY:

• Self-practice over group classes
• A stabilising yin sequence
• Avoid backbends (particularly on day 7)

Cyclical practice is mindfulness in motion.

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