Michelle Teasdale

✨ Opting Out with restorative yoga, nidra and community
🐢 Co-Resting
🎵 Online Sound Baths
Ayurveda Health Counselling and Feeding Your Demons shadow work

23/10/2025

Some Ayurvedic advice for autumn...

To counteract the cold, dry weather in autumn, bring in the opposite. Oil the skin, eat warming foods and add in more grounding movement practices.

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21/10/2025

I'm sharing a real treat of a class today with my paid subscribers over on Substack. We have a delicious yin sequence with lots of lateral stretches and shoulder openers, and then side-lying savasana with a crystal bowls sound bath!

You can sign up for a free 7 day trial to see if it's for you. Subscriptions are priced inclusively at £6 per month, or less if you pay annually.

What's included?
* One pre-recorded restorative or yin and restorative class each month
* One yoga nidra audio practice
* Slow Reading Group
* Reflective articles
* Plus my weekly weekend mood board of what I'm up to and what's inspiring me.

Link in the usual places...

20/10/2025

Today I step into the last year of my forties, and instead of making a list of things I want to achieve before I turn fifty, I’m making a list of what I’m leaving behind. A conscious shedding, an opting out.

Here’s what no longer has a place in my life:

Feeling rushed

The cult of “productivity”

Anti-ageing rhetoric

Hair dye

Endless self-improvement

Comphet

FOMO

Turning away from difficult emotions

Traditional gender norms

Alcohol (I stopped drinking socially over 8 years ago)

Immediate replies to emails

Cosmetic foundation

Avoiding conflict

Superficial conversation

Energy vampires

The attention economy of the Algorithm

Coffee

People-pleasing

Saying “yes” too quickly

Burnout

Background TV

Worrying about what other people think

Doubt

Self-pity

Fast fashion

Over-scheduling

The 9-5 grind

Black Friday

The hard sell

Unethical marketing

The “wellness industry” (*vomit emoji)

Influencer culture

Instagram Yoga

Toxic hyper-individualism

Anything that aggravates my nervous system

“Dressing for your age”

Dancing to the beat of someone else’s drum

Blame

Keeping the capitalist machine turning

Culture wars

Othering

“You” statements

Harsh movement practices that don’t honour my almost-50-year-old body

Negative body image

Guilt

Fitting into a neat little box

Urgency culture

Performative positivity

Measuring worth by output

👉What's on your list?

18/10/2025

If you're dreading winter and want to do things differently this year, why not join Wintering Well, an online wellness journey....

Across five months, we’ll follow the slow rhythm of the season - grounding, nourishing, and gently preparing for renewal through Ayurveda, yoga (restorative, yin and slow flow), sound healing, and rest. There will be playlists, reading recommendations, journalling prompts and an optional community space in which to share..

Here’s your invitation to soften into the wisdom of winter and emerge restored… we start in November.

By donation.

https://michelleteasdale.net/wintering-well

13/10/2025

On Opting Out today, guest posts about how to handle your inner critic, so that you can actually rest.

"It’s in the quiet stillness that the thoughts we’ve been avoiding feel safe to come up. As soon as they do, the inner critic swoops in to play it’s well-rehearsed role: it tells us we’re lazy, worthless, self-centered, and a bunch of other mean things to get us up and doing things again. The inner critic is mean, yes, but it’s also serving a much deeper purpose.

At one point in your life, the inner critic was a necessity to keep you safe. Now, that you’re an adult, it’s not needed as much, but it’s still hovering around, ready to spring into action.

It’s in periods of rest that we discover what we truly need, but this could threaten our status quo.

The truth is that your inner critic is trying to protect a part of you that it thinks can’t handle your current reality. By swooping in with insults to get you up and moving again, what it’s really doing is keeping you from discovering a sad, small part of you that is hurting and needs attention."

✨Rey gives practical tips on how to work with the inner critic, and how to listen to the sad part of us that wants to speak.

Free for everyone to read 😊

Link in bio / stories

09/10/2025

🌙 Wintering Well: A 5-Month Online Journey of Rest, Ritual & Renewal

As the days draw in, Wintering Well invites you to slow down, soften, and turn toward the quiet beauty of the season.

Through Ayurveda, yoga, sound, and ancient seasonal wisdom, we’ll tend to body, mind and spirit, learning the art of true restoration.

As the world grows quieter and darker, Wintering Well offers a sanctuary of warmth and reflection.

Across five months, we’ll follow the slow rhythm of the season — grounding, nourishing, and gently preparing for renewal through Ayurveda, yoga, sound, and rest.
Here’s your invitation to soften into the wisdom of winter and emerge restored…

Each month, you will receive:
❄️a weekly email with recipes, rituals, reading recommendations, journaling prompts and playlists
❄️ Two live online yoga classes (slow flow, yin, restorative)
❄️ One live sound healing journey
❄️ One exclusive yoga nidra audio
❄️An optional community space for sharing and reflection, away from social media

If this sounds like what you need, check my website /stories... We start in early November.

08/10/2025

It's starting to look a lot like Autumn! 🍁

Click through to the last pic for the humongous fungus!! Boot for scale!

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06/10/2025

As we experience the turn of the seasons, moving away from the light and towards the dark, it can throw up lots of challenges, perhaps even grief about the loss of daylight, or the general state of the planet. If we can nestle into the body through the darker months, it might give us some comfort, might help us to look inwards for solace, rather than outside of ourselves. This yoga nidra practice is intended to help us feel that whatever is going on in the world around us, which is all beyond our control, that we can come home to the body.

This is a FREE practice today on my Substack blog, Opting Out. Link in my stories / bio.

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23/09/2025

Your favourite bi couple celebrating Bi Visibility Day, today and every day 🩷💜💙

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