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BodyMind Holistics Holistic Therapist | Yoga Practitioner | Holistic Massage Therapist | Holistic Health & Wellness

🪷Mother’s Day in the UK prompted a moment of reflection for me — a pause to honour the women in our lives: mothers, daug...
15/03/2026

🪷Mother’s Day in the UK prompted a moment of reflection for me — a pause to honour the women in our lives: mothers, daughters, grandmothers, sisters, and the many women who walked before us.

🪷In many traditions this sacred feminine presence is known as Shakti — the living life force of creation, often honoured as Devi, the Divine Mother.

🪷She lives within the body. In the rhythm of breath. In the wisdom carried in our bones.

🪷In the instinct to nurture, create, protect and begin again.

🪷She has been carried through generations of women — through their strength, their tenderness, their resilience, and their love.

🪷While this day offers a moment to acknowledge her, the sacred feminine was never meant to be remembered on one named day alone.

🪷Shakti is something to honour in the everyday. In the way we care for our bodies. In the way we listen inwardly. In the way we acknowledge the lineage of women who came before us.

🪷Alongside honouring our mothers, we also bow gently to the deeper feminine presence that continues to live through us all. May we remember her. May we honour her. May we embody her.

🪷I felt to share an image of Durga, a representation of Shakti — the sacred feminine life force. To me she reflects the strength, wisdom and compassion carried through generations of women, and the deeper feminine presence that lives within us all.

Ive been sitting with this one for a while, trying to find some kind of words. Honestly I dont think any amount of word...
11/03/2026

Ive been sitting with this one for a while, trying to find some kind of words. Honestly I dont think any amount of words or pictures can really do this justice but im going to try anyway!

Stepping into the inner sanctum of the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple, I felt something far beyond language.

Temples are so much more than architectural structures. They are sacred energetic spaces, shaped by devotion, rhythm, and centuries of practice. Places where philosophy, art, ritual, and the human body meet.

Watching hundreds of devotees move through the temple — the chanting, the offerings, the quiet reverence — there is a living current moving through it all. At the centre is Nataraja, the dancing form of Shiva — creation, dissolution, rhythm, movement.

The architecture of the inner sanctum was nothing short of a masterpiece. It is not symbolic in a loose way — it is a direct reflection of the human body.

✨️There are nine gateways representing the nine openings of the human body.
✨️The Chitsabai (Ponnambalam) — the sanctum sanctorum — represents the heart.
✨️It is reached by five steps known as the Panchaatchara padi, representing the five indestructible syllables: Si-Va-Ya-Na-Ma.
✨️The sanctum is supported by 28 pillars, representing the 28 Agamas — the traditional scriptures of Shiva worship.
✨️64 beams represent the 64 forms of art and creative expression.
✨️Cross-beams symbolise the countless blood vessels of the body.
✨️The roof is laid with 21,600 golden tiles, representing the number of breaths a human takes in a day.
✨️These tiles are fixed with 72,000 golden nails, symbolising the 72,000 nadis — the subtle energy channels in yogic science.
✨️Above the roof sit nine sacred kalasas, representing nine forms of energy.

Standing there, it becomes very clear: the temple is not separate from the body.
It mirrors it.

Ancient traditions seemed to understand something we often forget — that the body itself is a sacred architecture. A living temple of breath, energy, rhythm, and awareness.

Chidambaram you are a divine masterpiece

ॐ नमः शिवाय 🔱

02/03/2026

What really goes on in-between massages 😂😉🏄‍♂️

thank you for this one as always Stirling work 😉🔥

There is a deep wisdom waiting to be heard 💚
27/02/2026

There is a deep wisdom waiting to be heard 💚

✨️This is something that comes up again and again in the wellness and holistic space.✨️So many people feel tired, wired,...
24/02/2026

✨️This is something that comes up again and again in the wellness and holistic space.

✨️So many people feel tired, wired, and disconnected from their bodies, yet unsure how to truly rest.

✨️Slowing down isn’t always easy — or even accessible. Life is full, responsibilities are real, and the pace can feel relentless. Over time, the body adapts, learning to stay alert, engaged, and moving.

✨️Resisting rest isn’t a failure and is often a nervous system response shaped by the world we live in.

✨️If it feels available, even a few minutes can become a gentle doorway —
a few conscious breaths,
a moment of intentional movement,
a small pause to meet the body with care.

✨️We were never meant to live in constant motion.
The body holds both doing and being,
strength and softness,
masculine and feminine currents.

✨️When we begin to honour rest, the body slowly returns to balance.

As always huge appreciation thank you for allowing me to capture these moments 💚

📸 huge love for the beautiful shots 💚

Oh lord, my weekly series slowly turning into monthly🫠 life has been doing her thing, ebbs and flows but I do try to alw...
22/02/2026

Oh lord, my weekly series slowly turning into monthly🫠 life has been doing her thing, ebbs and flows but I do try to always keep it real 💚

Part 3 of the spinal series exploring breath awareness & the spine💚

In yogic and Vedic wisdom, prana is the vital force that sustains not only the body, but creation at every level. The breath is one of most direct ways we receive it — a quiet rhythm that supports the body, steadies the nervous system, and gently nourishes the spine.

So often, we move through our days rarely noticing how we breathe, or how the spine is responding to the pace and posture of our lives.

Bringing simple awareness to the breath can begin to soften things — creating space, ease, and gentle release where there may have once been holding.

This isn’t about doing more, fixing anything, or forcing change.

It’s an invitation into presence.
To meet the breath as it is.
To notice its natural rhythm.
But maybe a noticing of where can the breath soften, and where can it slowly lengthen?

💚

🔱🕉 Om Namah Shivaya 🕉🔱
15/02/2026

🔱🕉 Om Namah Shivaya 🕉🔱

🪷Lately, there’s been a gentle noticing of how often clarity is searched for, rather than allowed.🪷How quickly old patte...
12/02/2026

🪷Lately, there’s been a gentle noticing of how often clarity is searched for, rather than allowed.

🪷How quickly old patterns move into urgency —
tight breath, tension, looping thoughts, the need for answers.And how different it feels when things soften.

🪷Clarity doesn’t arrive as certainty.
It arrives quietly. A deeper sense of knowing, a sense of alignment.

🪷With Mahashivratri approaching, Shiva’s invitation into stillness feels especially present — a reminder that clarity doesn’t need to be chased, its asks for stillness amd surrender.

🪷What opens when we trust a little more, and push a little less ?💚🔱

🌊 Learning to surf has been equal parts learning technique and observing and learning how to regulate the nervous system...
07/02/2026

🌊 Learning to surf has been equal parts learning technique and observing and learning how to regulate the nervous system.

🌊Every session brings uncertainty, excitement, vulnerability with a sprinkling of fear! All within an environment that's constantly changing.

🌊It's shown me how deeply learning lives in the body and how much safety, breath awareness and presence shape our ability to grow.

🌊When we learn to work with our nervous system, rather than pushing through it, learning becomes more spacious, more intuitive and more sustainable and way more fun 😉

🌊And somewhere between falling, floating and finding balance, I'm learning that progress doesnt come from pushing harder, - it comes through presence, sensation and trust.

🌊 Less force
🌊 More listening
🌊 Less Control
🌊 More trust

📸 As always thank you for the crispy clean shots

💚And as always tooo much love and gratitude to my mentors and friends, thank you for patience and the energy you always bring 🔥🤙🏽vr

"Holding Space"Something I've been thinking alot about lately is the term "holding space", we hear it so much but what d...
26/01/2026

"Holding Space"

Something I've been thinking alot about lately is the term "holding space", we hear it so much but what does it actually mean? 

I thought I'd share a little about what "holding space" means to me.

Holding space isn’t fixing.
It isn’t saving.
And it isn’t carrying someone else’s healing for them.

To hold space is to create a safe, steady container where another person can meet themselves.

Staying present without rushing, rescuing, or projecting our own stories.
To listen with the body as much as the ears.
To allow what is arising — sensations, emotions, breath — without trying to change it.

As practitioners, we are not the healers, but conduits.
We offer attunement, regulation, and safety so the body’s own intelligence can do what it already knows how to do.

For me, holding space means:
✨️meeting someone where they are, not where we think they “should” be
✨️ staying grounded in ourselves so another can feel safe to soften
✨️ trusting the body’s wisdom over the ego’s need to intervene

True holding space is quiet.
It’s humble.
It’s deeply respectful. 💚

as always thank you for allowing me to capture these moments ✨️ deep gratitude to you my dear friend.

for the capturing what words cannot, I appreciate you 💚

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