Aimee Hill Massage Therapy and Yoga

28/09/2025

💭Have you ever walked into a new space (or felt fear hold you back from trying something new) and your mind tells you “you won’t fit in… you’re not good enough”? If so, you’re not alone 🫂
🧠Your brain is simply trying to keep you safe. It wants you to be liked so you’re not “cast out of the tribe”… it’s our primal, survival 101!
💔 My own experiences of being bullied when I was young made me deeply passionate about creating spaces where you can show up without fear of judgment. 💕
🙏🏼Yoga has been my biggest guide in this, from the way the practice helps rewire our neural pathways, to the yogic philosophy that reminds us that we are so much more than our thoughts or old stories.
🥰 I’d love for you to experience that same sense of warmth, connection, and belonging in my community.
Along with my weekly classes, I hold special events like my Autumn Yoga Coffee Morning 🍂☕
📅 Saturday 4th October 2025
🕙 10:00–12:30 pm
📍 Blakewell Fisheries, Muddiford
🧡 Come for the movement and stay for the cake & community 🥰
✌🏻

14/09/2025

🍂✨ Autumn invites us to slow down, move inward, and shed what we no longer need.
I love these special mornings of outdoor lakeside yoga at the beautiful - and I’d love to share them with you 🥰
We’ll gather by the water to move, breathe, and soak up the magic of autumn’s golden hues. 🌅 (And if the weather turns, we’ll cosy up under the covered decking beside the pond.)
Afterwards, we’ll keep the autumn vibes flowing with a stop at the café for tea, coffee & cake ☕🍰
✨ Wrap up warm, bring your mat and a picnic blanket, and let’s honour the beauty of this season together.
Pop a “🍁” below if you’re interested in this event - spaces are very limited and get booked up!

08/09/2025

🍂 This term we’re exploring the Koshas - the yogic map of our being made up of different sheaths, or layers.
💫 We begin with the Annamaya Kosha… the physical “food body” of flesh, bone, muscle, and breath. This is the layer where we so often feel pain, tension, or fatigue.
🧘‍♀️ As we move, I’ll be guiding you to meet this layer with curiosity, not judgment. To notice the signals your body offers, and to begin trusting your ability to respond with care.
💛 I am forever growing and learning; as a teacher, and as a human. My role isn’t to be perfect, but to walk beside you with compassion, curiosity, and tools that support your healing 💗
🍂 I can’t wait to welcome you back, or help you begin your yoga journey! All of my classes are suitable for beginners - pop me a DM if you’d like to know more 🙏🏼

17/08/2025

🗣️ Maybe that little voice feels louder right now because every summer I tell myself the same slightly deluded story…
“This year, I’ll get my sh*t together. Tie up loose ends. Finish all those courses. Read the stack of books on my coffee table.”
…yeah right?! 🤪
😔 It’s hard not to fall into the same loop of imagining where I should be by now.
Bigger classes. Hosting Retreats. A huge following. And that elusive “six-figure” lifestyle.
🙄 It doesn’t help that so much of our culture (or maybe it’s just my algorithm?! 🤔😂) is built on striving for more — more likes, more attention, more money.
🤔 But recently I’ve been wondering… are these actually my dreams,
or just things I think I want because they seem to be what everyone else is doing?
✋ When I pause and take a breath, I notice that when I’m chasing what I think I want, I miss the beauty of what I already have.
✨ Goals and dreams will always be there — they are important.
But if the chasing leaves us exhausted, resentful, and joyless… maybe it’s time to loosen the grip and be ok with where we are right now??

15/08/2025

🥰✨ Yes, and thank you ✨🥰

Today, the TV was on for that little bit too long.

Today, the two of us are comprised almost entirely of bread-based concoctions.

Today, more wees ended up on the floor than in the loo. And I didn't do a good enough job of hiding my irritation.

Today, I apologised too much. And you forgave too easily, as children often do.

But tonight, we lay in your too-small toddler bed hugging tightly in the dark.

After twenty minutes of chatter, it fell silent. But then, as always, you blurted out your closing statement for the day. It usually involves batman.

But tonight you said "You are warm like summer, Mummy. You are mine very own hot water bottle."

Minutes later, you fell heavily into a sweaty slumber, leaving me to soak in your words.

I gazed at you a while. I hoped that if I stared at you long enough or hard enough, I might commit this version of you to memory. That I might preserve you in all your three-year-old cuteness.

And my tears fell. Part-guilt for a rubbish day, part-relief that your enduring memory of it is mummy feeling warm like summer.

And with these cuddles the day was saved, redeemed.

I was convinced in the early days that I had approached sleep all wrong, that I was doing you a disservice by not 'teaching' you to fall asleep by yourself.

But now, on the harder days, I am certain that this so-called bad habit of mine is the one thing that I have done right.

Art: Amanda Oleander Art

Words by: Mother Truths

From "Warm Like Summer: Little Stories of Early Motherhood"

Available to buy worldwide: https://linktr.ee/mother_truths

05/08/2025

🫶🏼 My last post was about the fact that I’ve considered using these drugs myself - not for medical reasons, but because we live in world that tells us that thin is better. More desirable. More acceptable.
Even as a yoga teacher. Even as someone who knows better — the pressure is unavoidable 🤷🏻‍♀️.
💔 But when I see global hunger… starving babies and children… people with no choice at all about food…
…something inside me breaks.
And that’s what stops me.
🙅🏻‍♀️ It’s not about saying “those people should just eat better” —
(it’s never that simple). It’s about asking: Why are we so quick to medicate hunger, and so slow to address the reasons behind it? Why do we pour money into weight loss drugs, but not into mental health support, food access, education, trauma healing, prevention?
💕 This is absolutely not a personal attack.
It’s a cultural reflection.
A mirror held up to the systems we live inside.
We’re constantly sold solutions that profit from our shame, our pain, and our desperate need to belong.
🤔 I will ALWAYS question the narrative.
Especially the one that keeps reiterating that we’re not enough as we are.