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🌓 Find balance • move with ease • restore your energy ✨
🌿 Yoga | Somatics | Qigong | Five Elements | Sound Healing
🌳 Peaceful private studio est. 2014

21/12/2025

🌘Happy Winter Solstice 🌒

The shortest day and longest night of the year marks a sacred pause and the gradual return of the light.

✨ A turning point that reminds us that even in deep darkness, renewal is already unfolding.

In a world that often praises brightness over shadow, Yang over Yin, and constant doing over being, the solstice gently calls us back to balance. Darkness is not something to fear or avoid. It is essential. In the stillness, seeds take root, dreams begin to form, and healing finds its way in.

🌙 Yin, the counterpart to Yang, carries the wisdom of the night: softness, receptivity, introspection, rest, the moon, and the flowing nature of water. Yin invites us to slow down, turn inward, and honor the quieter, subtler energies within and around us.

“Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.”

~ Wayne Dyer

May this solstice be a reminder to rest deeply, trust the unseen, and allow the light to return in its own time. 🖤✨🖤

📸 by my brother Tom

15/12/2025

I’ve needed to step back from teaching yoga for a little while to focus on caring for my family.

While I’m away, I hope you’re taking gentle care of yourselves and still finding moments to unroll your mat at home — even if it’s just for a simple stretch or a few calming breaths.

It’s been a challenging season, but the years I’ve devoted to my own wellbeing have helped keep me grounded, steady, and strong.

I’m looking forward to returning at some point in the new year. Until then, thank you for your patience, kindness, and continued support. It truly means more than I can say. ❤️

24/11/2025

🪷 “Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?”

~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

In a fast-paced world that constantly asks more of your attention, time, and energy, our practice becomes the place where we stop chasing the external and gently return home to ourselves.

In somatic practice, we begin by slowing down. Often, we start in Savasana. Not as an ending, but as an arrival.
Letting the bones settle.
Letting the breath soften.
Letting the muscles melt into support.
Sensing, listening, and feeling into the interior landscape that’s always been there.

This is where the body begins to speak. Where the nervous system can shift from doing to being. Where clarity arises not from effort, but from allowing.

When we give ourselves permission to pause, the “mud” of the mind settles… and what’s true has space to surface.

Stillness is not stagnation.
Stillness is a doorway and somatic practice teaches us how to walk through it.

23/11/2025

Weekend vibes ✨

🍝 Much needed girls’ night out. Delicious food, good wine, even better company.
🍂 Raking the last of the autumn leaves and enjoying the fresh air.
🌱 Already spotting the first signs of spring… in winter! A tiny reminder that new beginnings are coming.
🧶 A cosy evening knitting a pair of socks by the fire. Simple.
🏋🏼‍♀️ Mood-lifting, heart-pumping body pump class.
🎶 Playing my bowls to settle my energy.
🧘🏼‍♀️ A quiet and peaceful yoga session.
🧖‍♀️ Getting hot in the sauna.

Simple things, filling my cup. 💛☕️

20/11/2025

❄️ Winter at Yoga Tree Studio ❄️

As winter begins to settle in, we’re invited to slow down, soften, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom of the season. Over these last few weeks of the year, we’ll weave practices that nourish the body, soothe the mind, and replenish the deeper reservoirs of energy we draw from all year long.

🧘‍♀️ In Classes

Our focus turns to supporting the kidneys, adrenals, bladder, and lower back, all related to the water element. Expect fluid, somatic movement, longer-held postures, calming pranayama, soothing visualisation, and guided meditation to help you cultivate steadiness and calm, while reducing fatigue.

🧘‍♂️ In Workshops

🌕 Full Moon Alchemy Sound Healing for Hope
Let the soothing frequencies of the alchemy crystal bowls guide you into deep rest and renewal. Release what no longer serves you and open your heart to what lies ahead.
Thursday 4th December
7:00–8:00 PM
£20
All proceeds will be donated to the Hope Foundation.

🕯️ Restorative Yoga by Candlelight
An invitation to pause, unwind, and gently recharge, leaving you feeling lighter, restored, and more spacious before the festive season.
Friday 12th December
6:00–8:00 PM
£30

Take this time to soften your edges, reconnect with your inner rhythm, and move through December with ease and presence. ❄️

DM to secure your space ✨

16/11/2025

🌙✨ Sunday Surrender ✨🌙

Tipping into the second half of November, when the days grow shorter and the light grows softer. Outside, the cold and the drizzle invites a slower, quieter pace.

It feels like the perfect moment to turn inward. To unroll your mat, gather your bolsters and blankets, slip into something soft, and let the world move on without you for a little while.

In these yin postures, the body unwinds layer by layer, and the mind finally has permission to settle. This is the kind of rest that asks nothing of you. Only that you arrive as you are.

Let the ground support you. Let the stillness hold you. Let this be the pause your body and mind have been quietly asking for.

A small Sunday selfcare surrender, to carry you gently into the week ahead.

Safe this for when you need to recharge. 💫

15/11/2025

🌙 About last night:
A circle of women gathered on Friday night, coming together for sacred rest.

We stepped gently out of the noise and frenzy of the world and turned inward, toward the quiet truth that matters most:
our own inner peace.

The practice was simple and unhurried:
A handful of yin poses,
bodies cradled by props,
breath unfolding slowly,
blankets offering their warm embrace.
Darkness.
Stillness.
Silence.
A lullaby of Yoga Nidra to help us release what no longer needs holding.

We ended with chocolate melting on the tongue, oracle cards whispering insight, soft conversation, and shared laughter.

What more could the heart ask for? 🤍

The next workshop (and my final offering of this year) takes place on 12th December, 6–8 PM.
If your spirit is calling you to lay everything down
and simply rest…
the last place is waiting for you.

11/11/2025

“Just what I needed.”

I often hear these words from my students.

When we truly listen to our bodies, our breath, the world around us, we begin to give ourselves exactly what is needed. This is the essence of practicing with the seasons rather than despite them.

In autumn, nature begins her gentle descent. Energy that once reached upward in summer’s fullness now softens, turning inward, drawing down to the roots. The trees release what they no longer need, and we too are invited to let go.

Our practice shifts to mirror this natural rhythm.
🍂 When energy is descending, we might stay closer to the ground, seated, prone or supine shapes that connect us to the earth.
🌬 We might hold postures for longer, allowing the breath to deepen, the nervous system to settle.
🍁 Our transitions may slow, emphasizing steadiness over effort.
💨 Pranayama can become softer, more exhale-focused, supporting release and grounding.
🪷 Meditation might center on gratitude, reflection, or the art of letting go.

This is the simple wisdom of seasonal practice. We don’t need to push, force, or guess. We simply observe what nature is doing and mirror her. 🧡

09/11/2025

☀️ Just some light I want to share today.

🌙 November has given us the most stunning golden sunrises, sunsets, and luminous moons so far.

💫 Seeing the two of them together always reminds me of the meaning of Hatha yoga.

💛 The union between the sun (heat, energy, action, and strength) and the moon (calm, rest, intuition, and reflection).

🌞🌙 Both are needed. Both are sacred.

06/11/2025

🍂 Autumn & the Metal Element 🌬️

As the leaves fall and the air turns crisp, we move into the season of Metal — a time of refinement, reflection, and letting go. Just as trees shed their leaves, we’re invited to release what no longer serves so our true essence can shine through. ✨

When Metal is out of balance, we may feel emotionally heavy, perfectionistic, rigid, or stuck in old stories. The breath shortens, the chest tightens — we hold on when the body longs to exhale.

To restore balance, return to movement, breath, and softness:
🌕 Heart-opening yoga poses — Melting Heart, Supported Fish, gentle backbends
🌬️ Slow, somatic movement with the rhythm of your breath
💨 4-4-6 breathing — inhale 4, hold 4, exhale 6 to release and renew
🍵 Warm teas, journaling, and time in fresh air to nourish the lungs and spirit
🛡️ Healthy boundaries

Autumn reminds us that there is beauty in letting go, strength in softness, and freedom in the exhale. 🤍

04/11/2025

The thing I love most about taking a break from teaching… is the coming back. 💜

Seeing your faces again.
Hearing your stories. The shifts, the challenges, the quiet transformations.

Feeling the energy of the room as we move, breathe, and land back together.

Every time I step back into the space, I’m reminded that this practice is never one-way. It’s connection. It’s exchange. It’s a two-way street. Heart to heart, breath to breath. 💚

I love my job. Truly. ✨🫶

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