Green Mountain Yoga

27/04/2026

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23/04/2026

Some days can feel especially quiet, and loneliness can bring up so much more than just being alone.

It may stir grief, tenderness, longing, or the feeling that you need to hold everything by yourself. If that is where you are today, I hope these gentle reminders offer a little kindness or self-compassion.

You do not need to be more productive, more cheerful, or more put together to deserve care. Your feelings make sense. Your presence matters. And even on the days that feel a little heavier, you are still worthy of support, kindness and connection.

Take what feels comforting, and leave the rest. 💚

AJ

19/04/2026

Yoga has so often been presented through a narrow image, and over time many people have taken in the feeling that belonging in a yoga space depends on how a body looks, moves or is perceived by others.

That lands deeply for me, because yoga can offer connection and support in ways that reach far beyond appearance, and I believe that kind of space should feel available to many different bodies.

To me, yoga is an opportunity to meet yourself with attention and respect. For one person that may look like movement and stretch, while for someone else it may feel more supportive to use props, move slowly, pause often or spend more time resting. Each of those experiences can be part of the practice.

I want my classes to feel welcoming to different bodies, different capacities and different needs. A place where choice remains present, where people can follow their own rhythm, and where support is shaped around lived experience rather than a single ideal.

This feels important to me because the environment shapes so much of how a person feels in a class. The images we see, the language we hear and the atmosphere of the room all influence whether a space feels open, respectful and inclusive.

Your body is welcome here. 💚 AJ

18/04/2026

Trauma responses are survival responses.

When something overwhelming happens, the body reacts automatically in order to protect us. In that moment, these responses can be necessary and even life-saving.

What can become difficult is when the nervous system does not fully settle afterwards. The effects of the experience may remain active in the body. Later, something linked to the original event, such as a sound, smell, place, sensation, or tone of voice, can trigger that same survival response again.

This is part of why someone may panic, shut down, become highly reactive, stay constantly busy, or lose themselves in pleasing others, even when there is no immediate danger in the present.

These responses are organised forms of protection.

And over time, they can become patterns a person leans on in daily life.

If the nervous system has learned that pleasing helped preserve connection, that busyness helped avoid overwhelm, or that shutting down helped survive something too much to process, those same strategies may keep showing up long after the original danger has passed.

Fight, flight, freeze, and appease each reflect a different way the body may try to survive overwhelm.

Understanding this can help bring more clarity, more compassion, and less shame to patterns that may otherwise feel confusing.

16/04/2026

Sometimes this healing journey can feel exhausting, meaningful and confusing all at once. Especially because so much of it happens quietly and may not be visible to anyone else.

Some signs of healing can even feel contradictory at first. I noticed that once I began this journey, I started crying more. While that felt surprising, it was also deeply needed. Those tears seemed to hold so much of what had been suppressed, carried alone or pushed aside for a long time.

There can be a lot of grief in healing too, especially when you begin to realise what you missed, how often you were suffering in silence or how much you had to carry on your own.

And at the same time, there can be small shifts that may look like not much from the outside, but can change so much within. Taking a break before the overwhelm fully takes over. Caring for yourself with more tenderness. Feeling a little safer in your own company. Speaking up for yourself in ways you could not before.

For me, those more subtle changes have mattered deeply. They have helped me feel more grounded, more connected to myself and more able to meet my own needs.

Healing is not always obvious and it does not always move in a straight line, but that does not mean it is not happening. Sometimes the changes that seem smallest on the outside are the ones changing the most within. 💚 AJ

13/04/2026

Trauma can shape far more than memory. It can influence how someone moves through stress, relationships, conflict, and ordinary moments in daily life.

Responses like hypervigilance, shutdown, people-pleasing, shame, or self-doubt can grow from a nervous system that learned to protect through alertness, adaptation, or disconnection.

Even when the original situation is over, those patterns can still show up in everyday life, especially during moments that feel vulnerable, uncertain or intense.

Looking at trauma in this way can open the door to more understanding, more compassion, and a gentler relationship with yourself.

11/04/2026

Our yoga sessions are a space for choice, honesty and responsiveness. A space where you can rest, move in your own way, pause, stop or begin again. A space where your experience matters more than how anything looks from the outside.

You might arrive feeling tired, emotional, distracted or unsure. You might need more space, more slowness or more support. You might realise halfway through that something else would feel more supportive. All of that belongs here too.

For me, this is part of the practice. Learning to stay in relationship with yourself. Learning to notice what feels supportive today. Learning to respond with care.

Sometimes that kind of permission changes the whole experience of being in a session. It can create a little more room to breathe, to feel and to stay connected to yourself while you are there. 💚

AJ

08/04/2026

This feels important to name.

For some people, hands-on assists may feel supportive. For others, they may feel overwhelming, intrusive or simply not welcome.

You are allowed to have a preference around touch. You are allowed to set a boundary. And you are allowed to notice what happens when you name it.

A trauma-sensitive space makes room for choice. It does not make you feel like a problem for having one.

Your body is still yours in a yoga class. That matters too.

If you are looking for a class where your boundaries can come with you, you are welcome to join us. 💚

02/04/2026

Sometimes that inner critic can be so harsh.

It can make you feel like you should be further along or as if something is wrong with you because you are still having a hard time.

But I do not think healing moves through shame. I think it asks for a bit more softness. A bit more self-love. A bit more acceptance for where you are right now.

You are still worthy of love, even here. 💚

31/03/2026

Healing can feel confusing in ways I do not think we talk about enough.

Sometimes it is not only about feeling activated, overwhelmed, or close to the pain. Sometimes it is also about those moments when something begins to change and you are not fully sure what to make of it.

Maybe something that used to feel highly charged lands differently. Maybe fear is no longer shaping every moment in the same way. Maybe there is a little more room for joy or a little more comfort in being alone.

And still, doubt can come in.

Is this healing?
Will it last?
Or am I just disconnected from it again?

I think this can be such a tender part of the process…when life begins to feel a little different, even that can feel unfamiliar.

Healing can become visible in the ways life starts to feel different.

Sending you sunshine my friends,

💚 AJ

29/03/2026

Sometimes trauma affects more than thoughts or memories.

It can also shape the relationship we have with the body, and the way it feels to live in it.

This is part of why healing may involve slowly rebuilding connection, with gentleness, choice and space for your own experience.

If you are looking for a gentle place to explore that, my trauma-sensitive yoga classes offer space for breath, movement and choice, while honouring your own experience.

You can join via the link in bio or send me a private message
💚 AJ