Nataraja Yoga

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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.....

04/09/2025

ELEMENTAL YIN: FEEDBACK… ✨

I rarely share feedback from people.

And I have no idea why. Despite coming from a PR background and knowing this is “normal” for promotion, it feels completely egotistical to do so about myself 🫠

And sometimes an invasion of privacy, of the experience, you know…??

But - shared with permission - here goes:

“I’m still mind-blown from trying your yin class for the first time the other week. I’ve never experienced a room like that, you could just feel how deep everyone was in it. It was incredible!

I was meaning to reach out and tell you sooner how strong it was. I think it was water element and you had a headache and everyone was so deep in it, people crying, I was completely destroyed in the best way 😅 I’ve just never experienced a whole room dropping so deep before.

It’s so beautiful and such a unique art form that you clearly master! Such a gift to be able to create that space for people. I’m coming back soon. ❤️”

I just feel this is the most ridiculously amazing feedback…. And I’m so grateful for it.

It means such an incredible amount to know that my teaching from deep inside my own emotional centre - whether that’s a good day or a bad day for me - is working and it’s engaging. I continually and without fail try to be authentic, always.

This is the FELT EXPERIENCE ✨

I’m mind-blown 🥰

So, if you’re feeling eager to learn more about what I teach, and my training courses, head to my website:

⏭️ mizdeshannon.com

03/09/2025

26-28 September 🍂☀️🙏🏼

In just a few weeks!

We’ve got ONE SPOT available on this year’s forest retreat….

We hide away for the weekend with locally grown organic food, dive into yoga practice and Qigong, barefoot, wild swimming, sunshine and fields, all in and around the old farmhouse in Österlen.

Join me and a small group of 9 other lovely humans, for this sober and nourishing weekend…. All welcome, all inclusive.

Let me know if you’ve got any questions ❤️

02/09/2025

We, as, when we decided
We were not born for busyness.
We were born for play.
To dance
Feel joyful
To dance on music
Of dissolution.

Somehow the false teachers came—
priests, pundits, rulers.
And bound the mind with laws
And bound the heart with fear
And bound the soul with gold.

So we began to run.
Running outward,
forgetting inward.
Chasing horizons,
forgetting the source.

Busy—busy for what?
The home was never in the distance.
The home is the Self.
Closer than breath.
Nearer than heartbeat.

Thus now
Who returns within,
finds the play again.
Who re-remembers,
rests in truth.

You are not the runner.
You are the Home.

- written by my good friend Pawan (the air never known but always felt)

**plus a bunch of memes / art that have made things buzz around my head these days…

**the Substack is coming 📚

31/08/2025

Familiar ✨

Sights, sounds, smells
Voices
Vibrations
“Thanks love”…
The shape of words
Here - ‘ere
Birds, trees, leaves
The bus, rumbling
Water rushing through Dark Arches
Resonance and echoes
That mean something in my body
Something
Good and soothing
Pathways and knowing
Everything
Is a feeling
A memory
In all of my cells
A relaxing
Familiarity in every form
Every dance
Smile
Hug
Every knowing glance
Every molecule of energy
Every piece of love
And my friends ❤️

Leeds… You’ve been magnificent this weekend. From the art and inspiration to the cake to the dancing to the missed trains and late food, the ladies at Ryde playing with my hair - obsessed that it isn’t extensions, so many matchas, my cosy attic room, with the view of the horses in the morning sun, the colours of the rolling hills and crags in the evening shadow…

The immense comfort of engaging with things and just knowing; what, who, how, why…

I miss everyone so much, and you always welcome me back with such open arms and joy. The reassurance and the (sometimes raw!) honesty from my beautiful friends is unparalleled.

I’m so grateful, and so lucky. And I can’t wait to connect my two covens ✨

Happy birthday beautiful Anna ❤️

30/08/2025

My nervous system has become so resilient that a hot yoga session barely phases me…

(after curry for dinner and pastry for breakfast)

Short bursts of stress and then rebalancing create plasticity in your brain, allowing it (and your body’s physiology) to understand how to be flexible and not go into major reactivity mode….

This doesn’t mean to say that we don’t still cry when people act like a$$holes…

Lets see if my theory works during today’s session with at 😅

24/08/2025

Lately… 💥

It’s suddenly autumn; the season of change and letting go, and holding on to what is valued and loved…

- I’ll be embracing more YTT
- magical drumming and food at Christiania 🥰
- Japanese calligraphy
- lots of time renewing love for
- blue skies and the ocean, nature FTW
- great food (thanks .co)
- feeding banana bread to the fish
- new boxing classes balancing my upper with my cycling legs
- and some memes 😅

Immediately hitting Virgo new moon days with a profound letting go, a feeling of improving and elevating what I’m already capable of.

Apparently this energy is guiding us to break old patterns, to review and self-improve.

Thanks for the podcast on that 😘

I’m up for that, after six months plus of dragging my feet and struggling through summer.

“It’s the dream, hope, fantasy of potential that’s stuck” as Niko said to me. So we move on, we hit autumn with that immediate urge to release and purge, and make my own dreams actionable, protecting my energy and putting the right boundaries back in place…

This season is about discovering REAL potential and turning it into gold. That’s the essence of Metal Element work 🏆

Starting with a gorgeous new place. Aligning my personal space, my goals, and my Substack - there’ll be a lot of features popping out soon.

I’ve realised that trawling through video editing is not for me, so for anyone on my newsletter - sorry that didn’t last long. I don’t have the skills or patience for it, so you’ll be getting what I’m good at, well-researched scientific and philosophical writing 🤓

Responsibility, honesty, and new downloads ♍️

Bring it on 🍂

20/08/2025

DISCIPLINE 💪🏼

The only thing that keeps me going when the 💩 hits the 🪭

Just when you think everything is okay, it suddenly isn’t. And I mean, SUDDENLY. My entire being has been reliving past incidents, sometimes trauma, which is incredibly hard to handle… Maybe I’ll write more on my neglected Substack on that 👻

Discipline keeps me going.
Discipline keeps me sane.
Discipline allows me to move on.
Discipline makes me feel strong.

🔥 Going to work (most days)
🔥 Talking to friends (an absolute MUST)
🔥 Shifting my schedule to put GOOD things in (emails at night when the sun has gone - nature, for the win)
🔥 Taking tasks one bite-sized step at a time (forcing creates more overwhelm)
🔥 Eating healthily and regularly (fuel, obviously)

It’s hard to be disciplined and stick to a path of progress and training and food and communication when anxiety kicks in and life feels unmanageable, when someone has tried to destroy everything you believed about yourself and your relationships, when the things that make you comfortable are pulled away….

A wise person said to me once “COURAGE OVER COMFORT” though - and that stuck…

Courage is the driver behind developing and growing, guiding us to steadily build confidence 💥

⏩️ Courage and discipline work hand-in-hand, creating a positive feedback loop for personal development, each step provoking further movement and growth…

⏩️ They both require facing challenges and taking action, even when it isn’t convenient or comfortable!

⏩️ In yoga, this is TAPAS - one of the Niyamas on the Ashtanga path…

Tapas brings self-discipline through practice, to release stored tension, find focus and freedom from negative emotions, and build mental resilience 💥

It’s about embracing challenges, and committing to a path of continuous self-improvement. It’s about cultivating the right amount of heat to awaken our potential, like the heat needed for a seed to germinate… 🌱

We don’t have to be rigid and regimented - growth isn’t linear, discipline is about commitment and consistency, showing up, and being grateful for small habits bringing a big difference 🏆

[pics: a random selection of nice things from the last years…]

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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.