Bryony Ollier Yoga

03/09/2026

How do you fill your cup?

Grateful for sunshine, movement, water, forest, meditation, breath, singing, and time with this beauty.

03/02/2026

I’ll be stepping away for two weeks to be with family in Japan.
It feels important to pause and say how grateful I am for this community. Every shared breath, every harmony, every moment of co-regulation in circle matters.
Thank you for showing up for yourselves and for one another.
Back soon. Big love to you all. 🤍

02/25/2026

“Matriarchy is not a throne.
It is a circle.
It is children held at the center.”
Reposting
This is the heartbeat of .
Women held.
Voices rising.
Children held in the safety of that circle.

02/20/2026

Your nervous system is the technology that changes lives.
When we regulate ourselves, we change the field around us.
This is the heart of Singing Mamas:
care for the caregiver → co-regulation for our children → more ease in our homes.
Song as medicine.
Nervous system support in community.
Come as you are.

02/13/2026

Some days, the practice is this simple:
put one foot in front of the other and sing your way through what you’re carrying.

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well” is a famous quote from the 14th-century English mystic Julian of Norwich, found in her book The Revelations of Divine Love. It serves as a message of hope, trust, and divine love, often cited in times of struggle or suffering, and uncertainty.
Songs like this work like mantra.
They don’t erase grief, fear, or pain but they help us stay with it, soften around it, and remember we’re not alone inside it.
If today feels heavy, you don’t have to fix it.
You can hum.
You can breathe.
You can take one small step along the lines in front of you.

This beautiful song is by Penny Stone

02/09/2026

Postpartum can open us to so much tenderness and sometimes, so much loneliness.
When someone shares that singing has helped them feel less isolated, a little more resourced, a little more themselves again… it lands deeply.
I feel quietly certain, in this season of my own life, that this work matters:
voice as medicine, song as a nervous-system balm, circle as community.
Thank you to those who reflect back that this space is helping.
To those who show up tired, unsure, open.
And to the songs themselves, for reminding us we don’t have to hold it all alone.

02/07/2026

02/05/2026

We carry so much.
So often we’re taught to keep it together, stay quiet, push it down.
But our bodies know better.
Our voices know better.
Singing together gives us permission to feel what’s here,
to soften what’s heavy,
to move what’s stuck,
to let the sound carry what words can’t.

Singing Mamas is a non-performative, welcoming space for women of all ages and stages to come as they are. You don’t need to be a “singer.” You don’t need to come with a baby (though babies and toddlers are deeply welcome and benefit from being in song-filled spaces).

If something in you has been waiting for permission to be felt…
This is your sign.

✨ Weekly circles:
🗓 Mondays
• Christine Sinclair Community Centre | 10:30–11:45am
(Sign up via Burnaby Recreation)
• Wildfires Bookshop, New Westminster | 1–2:30pm
🗓 Tuesdays
• Trout Lake Community Centre
(Sign up via Vancouver Recreation)
🗓 Thursdays
• Eton Studio, Hastings Sunrise

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02/03/2026

Bella Ciao is a song of resistance ;
a reminder that singing has always lived alongside liberation.

Not all women are free to sing.
And many of us have learned to silence ourselves.

Singing together loosens fear.
It breaks open the cages: inside and out.

Singing for freedom.
Singing as resistance.
Singing as remembrance.
Singing as community care.
Singing to bring togetherness.
Singing as a birthright
Singing as a return to wholeness

02/03/2026

An offering:

We keep trying to see the light,
even when there is so much darkness around us.
Not by denying what is happening,
but by remembering that light still exists.
That is what hope is.
This song written by Penny Stone, with words inspired by Desmond Tutu
is an offering for remembering.

If you are in a place of heaviness or shadow,
please know that you are loved
and that you are not alone.
There is so much suffering and oppression in the world right now.
It can feel overwhelming and ever-present.
And still, we keep choosing to look for the light.
We keep it alive for ourselves and for one another.
This is one of the songs we sing in Singing Mamas..
not to fix anything,
but to remember, together.

01/29/2026

Watching this work by , shared by stopped me in my tracks.
It speaks so clearly to the invisible experience of early motherhood.
-The cohabitation with a tiny human.
-The sleeplessness.
-The way time blurs and memory shifts.
-The way our chemistry, our nervous system, even our sense of self quietly reorganises.

We are suddenly holding so many roles at once ;
caregiver, protector, provider, partner, daughter, friend.

All while trying to remember how to care for ourselves.

This is not weakness.
This is biology.
This is transformation.
And it’s why maternal health matters so deeply …
not just physically, but emotionally, creatively, communally.

This is the heart of why I offer spaces like and …
gentle creative health circles where voice, breath, rhythm and connection support the nervous system and remind us we don’t have to carry it all alone.
Because being witnessed matters.
Singing together matters.
Resting inside community matters.
You are not meant to do this chapter in isolation 🤍

01/23/2026

A song gifted
by a fellow Singing Mamas leader
on the Isle of Wight 🤍 .singingmamas.iow
I don’t know where it first came from
but it has travelled…
and now it lives here too.
Today I sing it
for all the birthdays
gathered around this time ✨
For my dad, William Ollier .ollier.7
happy birthday today 🤍

For Paloma,
who turned one this week
and has already shared
a whole year of Singing Mamas with us 🌱

For Bianca,
for Sallay
for Dolly Parton,
and for all the others,
seen and unseen.
May this song
wrap around you
like a blessing 🎶

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