Nataraja Yoga

Nataraja Yoga Sharing yoga and movement practices. Curating lovely retreats. Nature obsessed...

I'm and English teacher and Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Therapist, now living in beautiful Copenhagen.....

🌸 Rest in awareness that there’s no separation between you and your worldEnergy within, reflects energy withoutEnergy wi...
30/01/2026

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Rest in awareness that there’s no separation between you and your world
Energy within, reflects energy without
Energy without, comes from energy within
Your calm breath, your quiet mind, your stillness, creates the same in the space all around you.
EARLY BIRD pricing ends in two days on my training at where we explore more of the above ideas and feelings 🥰
And also, my Sweden 🇸🇪 forest retreat is extended to three nights in the autumn, for a softer less ‘educational’ deep dive into elemental practices 🍂
🐆 all the links you need are on mizdeshannon.com 🐆

“Tears came to my eyes when she placed that cold towel on my forehead at the end of the practice. I said “thank you,” an...
28/01/2026

“Tears came to my eyes when she placed that cold towel on my forehead at the end of the practice. I said “thank you,” and she replied, “it’s all good,” then laughed- that sweet, warm laugh of hers.

Jesus, this woman is, to me, the embodiment of warmth and safety. I have no idea how she does it. I don’t know many people like her, but I know that I’d love to make others feel the way she makes me feel- that boundless trust and the sense that everything will be okay.

It’s almost mythical and unreal, like the fantasy of returning to the womb. She does something like that to me, and I can’t explain it.

But during shavasana, I felt again that everything makes sense, that my path will soon get easier, and that these crazy twists and turns will finally end.”

- this journal entry was sent to me by one of the magnificent humans who I’ve had the honour of guiding through classes.

⏭️ Reading it absolutely blew me away…. I’ve never received anything like it.

💫 We never know how much those offerings, in the 60-minute pockets of time, mean to everyone receiving 💫

I’m at my happiest when I’m in nature.And I’m not the only one.We are animals, so our rhythms and systems glow when we’r...
23/01/2026

I’m at my happiest when I’m in nature.

And I’m not the only one.

We are animals, so our rhythms and systems glow when we’re closer to the things that historically stimulate us positively, on a deep cellular level.

Stimulus from phones and technology isn’t an overall positive, in my eyes. Stimulus from the breath of the universe, the energy of trees, the rush of fresh water, the warmth of a real flame, and the distance of the stars is what truly makes my heart sing.

I’ve always had a life out in nature. From walking the hills of Scotland and Wales as a kid, to escaping school to wander in the mists of The Pennines, to living right by the ever-changing shoreline and ocean in my recent years in Denmark.

The effect on my nervous system is INCOMPARABLE. Dragging myself through an abusive relationship with my parents, nature was my escape. After a stint with drug addiction and some questionable lifestyle choices, nature was my saviour. Through the overwhelm and stress of handling IVF failure alone and a neglectful alcoholic partner, again she was there for me in the last few years… Always.

Nature is a w***e, as Kurt Cobain said (In Bloom, 1992), and she will continually endlessly give and give and give and suck you in, should you let her. In all her forms, as fire, as water, as earth, she’ll give and support and hold you.

So let her. Allow her in. This is at the core of guiding softness - the ability to allow.

And I’m inviting you to invite yourself to allow again this autumn. Come back to the forest with me. Embrace your inner animal and nourish yourself ready for winter.

Three nights of yoga, sauna, food, and wild experiences in the Swedish forest...
1-4 October 2026, Fiskabäck, Österlen
Sanctuary Sweden ꩜
🍂 the details are on my website 🍂

I’m at my happiest when I’m in nature 🥰 And I’m not the only one.We are animals, so our rhythms and systems glow when we...
23/01/2026

I’m at my happiest when I’m in nature 🥰

And I’m not the only one.

We are animals, so our rhythms and systems glow when we’re closer to the things that historically stimulate us positively, on a deep cellular level 🦠

Stimulus from phones and technology isn’t an overall positive, in my eyes.

💫Stimulus from the breath of the universe, the energy of trees, the rush of fresh water, the warmth of a real flame, and the distance of the stars is what truly makes my heart sing 💫

I’ve always had a life out in nature. From walking the hills of Scotland and Wales as a kid, to escaping school to wander in the mists of The Pennines, to living right by the ever-changing shoreline and ocean in my recent years in Denmark.

❤️The effect on my nervous system is INCOMPARABLE.❤️

Dragging myself through an abusive relationship with my parents, nature was my escape. After a stint with drug addiction and some questionable lifestyle choices, nature was my saviour. Through the overwhelm and stress of handling IVF failure alone and a neglectful alcoholic partner, again she was there for me in the last few years… Always.

Nature is a w***e, as Kurt Cobain said (In Bloom, 1992), and she will continually endlessly give and give and give and suck you in, should you let her. In all her forms, as fire, as water, as earth, she’ll give and support and hold you.

So let her. Allow her in. This is at the core of guiding softness - the ability to allow.

💌 And I’m inviting you to invite yourself to allow again this autumn. Come back to the forest with me. Embrace your inner animal and nourish yourself ready for winter.

⏭️ Three nights of yoga, sauna, food, and wild experiences in the Swedish forest...
1-4 October 2026, Fiskabäck, Österlen
Sanctuary Sweden ꩜
🍂 the details are on my website 🍂

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05/01/2026

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Hey new year…I’m not doing a “new year, new me” post, or a ‘year in review’, bc we’ve all had enough of that and my frea...
04/01/2026

Hey new year…

I’m not doing a “new year, new me” post, or a ‘year in review’, bc we’ve all had enough of that and my freakishly bizarre year is outlined in the numerous posts below this one 😁

2025 - Year Of The (Wood) Snake and the last of a 9-year cycle. Shedding, renewal, intuitive understanding, and growth. Damn did that happen. Shedding a bunch of people and situations that have been thoroughly useless and/or disruptive over the last years, and looking back have made me feel icky. Holding onto the wise, intuitive, intelligent ones. Loss and grief, through death… 9 years of diving into trials and tribulations and testing the very core of my patience and morals.

This year I’ve done *A LOT* of reflection, on how I have acted in the last few years, how I have made my decisions and stupidly often ignored my own intuition. I’ve held myself back by allowing my own insecurities to be played, by myself and those close to me.

So we aren’t having any more of that messing in 2026. We listen to the intuition and the witches in my head 🤪

I’ll be following my inner weirdo and letting life carry me forward. Having turned 50 - and this is a common theme for those my age - I have no f*cks left to give, and am 100% reverting to my old ways (before I was sucked into Danish housewife life) of “what you see is what you get”. Don’t like it, move along.

You will find me looking for bones and being thoroughly joyous about that, wearing ridiculous outfits that probably don’t match, and teaching bizarre things in my classes that straddle dance and martial arts and Qigong and my own potentially non-conformist ideas.

You will always also find me being as honest and authentic as ever. I won’t follow trends, I follow my heart. And it’s dark, a little mad, and filled with vast amounts of love for all the right things.

And those things include the amazing friends and ‘chosen family’ I’ve closed the year with since my birthday. What absolute blessings I’ve gathered in the last few weeks, and will carry forward. Crazy times ❤️

See you sometime, for something spontaneous, or planned.

Looking forward to the real new year, carry forward the good stuff, and keep frolicking, Pagans 🌿

☮️ Belief. In what’s real, earthly, tangible. There’s a thread here, of women, and the earth, and peace.“Peace on earth ...
25/12/2025

☮️ Belief. In what’s real, earthly, tangible. There’s a thread here, of women, and the earth, and peace.

“Peace on earth and goodwill toward men” (Luke 2:14 King James Bible) is a central theme of Christmas - reconciliation, hope, and the call for humanity to live in love and harmony.

Something that needs to be remembered more these days, as many are deep in judgement and division. My avatar is a reflection of the CND logo, an organisation and cause I’ve believed in since I was a kid and saw 30,000 women protesting American cruise missiles at RAF Greenham Common in the UK.

I go to church at Christmas, despite being brought up religion-free, with a C of E mum and a Muslim father. And why…? To honour my Grandmother, who took me to church at every opportunity. She loved the church, the stories, the community, the friendship. She had faith.

And I ponder the notion of faith, and of belief. Belief is logic-based, factual, proof-induced decision-making. Faith relies on trust, commitment, reliability on something, regardless of evidence. At the same time the two can go hand-in-hand.

So why go to church? For me it’s representative, of respect of a memory and a tradition that’s based on faith. We all have faith, whether it’s in Christianity, stories of Buddhism, deities we find in yoga and Ta***ic Shaivism.

But what do we BELIEVE, take as truth…?

Since Prehistoric times, before patriarchal Christianity turned Pagan events into biblical stories, the Winter Solstice (21st Dec.) has marked a ‘return of the sun’, not a focus on The Son. Ancient cultures held rituals around life and fertility, Earth’s gifts and the harvest, ancestors and The Mother as source. The Divine Feminine and origin of life, celebrated as Mother’s Night, Mōdraniht. Gift-giving honoured since Saturnalia, the Roman mid-winter festival, represented in Christian story-telling by 3 Magi giving gold, frankincense, myrrh…

✨The winter darkness is a place of giving, of divine creation; the primordial void, the WOMB of life, the necessary backdrop for light and order to emerge✨

Believe, in the preciousness of Mother Earth 🌍
Christmas/solstice ponderStella Porta ⚭ Founder of 𝙃𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙗 by .porta and more ❤️

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I’m an English yoga teacher and Ayurvedic Yoga Massage therapist, now living in beautiful Copenhagen... The first time I practiced yoga was in 2003, after suffering a back injury and being unable to continue with martial arts – practices I loved because of the mix of physical and philosophical aspects. For a few years I simply used yoga asana as part of a rehabilitiation process, opening up my body, regaining mobility, building strength and learning how to move fluidly again. And then eventually I became engrossed in other aspects of the Eight Limb path – my classes now incorporating mindful movement, breathwork and meditation, with encouragement on how to take various aspects into busy daily lives.

The classes I teach follow creative sequences, unusual patterns, focusing on breath and movement between shapes, incorporating Ashtanga asanas, resting in poses, to notice and feel, and improve mobility and strength. I build in Yin stretching at points, restorative positions for closing relaxation, as well as opportunities for mudra and meditation, with appropriate readings. This all leads nicely into AYM therapies, which is about softening the body and the breath through passive movement and massage, to find deeper relaxation.