Michelle Teasdale

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✨ Opting Out with restorative + yin yoga, nidra and community

Spiralling - a year-long elemental journey

Ayurveda Health Counselling and Feeding Your Demons, Mandala Method shadow work

10/03/2026

The early-bird discount on online annual memberships at TEND is ending tonight. If you sign up now, you can save £50 (the offer is one year for £150, normal price is £200). Six monthly (£108) and monthly (£20) memberships are also available.

Accessibility and inclusivity are among my highest priorities. Every body is welcome here. If you require financial assistance, nobody will ever be turned away due to cost. Please DM for a chat.

What’s Included?

weekly 90 minute yin yoga + meditation (+ somatics + restorative) class (recorded)

monthly gathering, either a seasonal wisdom sharing circle, or a reading circle (not recorded, but journalling prompts will be shared)

monthly yoga nidra audio

access to the full library of practice

community Discord space

I hope that you can join us.

09/03/2026

In TEND, one of our monthly gatherings is a reading circle. In April, we will come together online to discuss 'The Hidden Life of Trees'. Trees are, for instance, “social beings”, communicating with each other through their roots, thanks to the fungal wood wide web that permeates the forest soil, even sharing nutrients in hard times. Wohlleben’s book will change your view of the wooded world.

What is a reading circle?

It's similar to a book group but there's more emphasis on sharing from our own experience, how material in the books relates to our lives. There will be gentle questions to consider, and each book is chosen according to its connection to the Taoist element of the current season (in spring it's the wood element).

What is TEND?

TEND is an online sanctuary for seasonal embodiment and community. We gather weekly for yin yoga and meditation (peppered with some somatics and restorative yoga), and monthly for either a seasonal wisdom circle or a reading circle. There is also a monthly yoga nidra audio practice.

Everything is themed around the Taoist five elements and the seasons, to allow us to connect more deeply with the natural world, and embody the positive qualities of those elements.

In spring, the element is wood - a healthy tree flourishes, has strength and flexibility and is well rooted, so how can we cultivate this in our own lives?

There is a growing library of practices for you to explore, and our live weekly sessions begin on 24th March.

Early bird pricing ends tomorrow.

🌳Would love for you to join us.

More info in my bio / stories / highlights.

06/03/2026

All about TEND...

A gentle online membership for seasonal embodiment and community.

Early bird discount runs through to the end of 10th March. I hope that you can join us.

02/03/2026

Are you looking for affordable online yoga and wellness?

TEND is an online gentle membership with a 90-minute weekly live yin / restorative / somatics + meditation class, themed around the Taoist five elements of the year. Each class is recorded and added to our growing practice library.

We also have a monthly sharing circle:
- alternating months, there will be a seasonal wisdom circle, where there may be a simple ritual or embodiment inquiry, time for journalling or reflection, and space for those who wish to share. The emphasis is on listening, witnessing, and staying close to lived experience rather than analysis or advice.

- these will alternate with a reading circle. Our first book will be The Hidden Life of Trees. The books are usually non-fiction and are chosen for their resonance with themes of seasonal living, nature connection, contemplative practice, rest, relationship, and how to live with integrity in a fractured world. Each book is explored over two months, allowing time to read slowly and reflect without pressure. These circles are conversational rather than academic, and you are welcome to come even if you have only read a little, or not at all.

TEND is offered with a spirit of care and inclusivity. Membership pricing is designed to make this work accessible to as many people as possible, and inclusive pricing is available for those who need it. If you would like to enquire about financial assistance, please DM me. All messages are met with care and absolutely no judgment. Nobody is ever turned away.

There are different ways to join - you might try for a month, six months or take advantage of our early-bird offer and get £50 off an annual membership.

Details in my bio / stories / highlights.

01/03/2026

Recently, I chose not to undertake a solo week-long Buddhist meditation retreat that I had been planning for some time. The decision did not arise from a loss of faith in the teachings, nor from disillusionment with the tradition, but from a simple and honest recognition that I was depleted and that my body was asking for something quieter and less demanding.

In another season of my life, I might have overridden that knowing. I might have told myself that retreat would restore me, that more meditation, more discipline, and more immersion in practice would steady whatever felt out of balance. There is a familiar narrative that suggests that when we feel spiritually thin or emotionally stretched, the solution is to add more practice, to intensify our effort, or to deepen our commitments. Diligence is one of the ‘six perfections’ of Buddhism, after all.

As I sat with the decision, I began to notice that my impulse to attend was not entirely grounded in devotion. There was an undercurrent of urgency and a subtle belief that I should be accumulating something, whether merit, insight, purification, or progress along a path that can so easily resemble another ladder to climb. In that moment of recognition, I felt the quiet presence of consumerism entering my spiritual life.

Read the whole post for free on my beehiiv newsletter, link in bio / stories.

16/02/2026

TEND is a new a gentle membership with weekly yoga and meditation, and monthly sharing and reading circles for seasonal reflection.

It is a space to practice yin, restorative, mindful and somatic yoga alongside nidra and meditation, guided by the rhythms of the Taoist Five Elements and the unfolding seasons of the year.

Each week we gather live for a 90 minute practice that weaves together yin, somatic and mindful yoga, restorative and nourishing shapes, somatic awareness and embodied listening, meditation and contemplative inquiry.

There is also a monthly yoga nidra rest practice audio recording.

There will be monthly live online circles, where we gather for either a simple ritual, journalling reflections and sharing, or a reading circle, inspired by the energetics of the current season. Our first book will be The Hidden Life of Trees.

The emphasis is not on doing more, but on listening more closely. You are invited to arrive as you are, practice at your own pace, and stay in relationship with yourself and the group across the year.

Doors are open now. Our first live class will be on 24th March to explore the spring equinox and the wood element.

A special recorded class for the incoming year of the fire horse will land this week!

01/02/2026

January!

Lots of walks, rainy days, art galleries, online sessions for my Wintering Well folks, new hair and learning Norwegian...

30/01/2026

So excited to finally receive my Q***r Crow Death Magic tarot! In love with it already 🖤

27/01/2026

TEND is a seasonal live, online sanctuary for people who want to slow down and practice embodiment and self-care in community.

It is a space to practice yin, restorative, mindful and somatic yoga alongside nidra and meditation, guided by the rhythms of the Taoist Five Elements and the unfolding seasons of the year. We move gently, return often, and allow practice to meet us where we actually are.

TEND is not about self improvement, optimisation, or keeping up. It is about tending ourselves and one another with care, over time, throughout the year.

What is TEND?
TEND is an ongoing gentle membership for people who are longing for depth, embodiment, and connection without pressure or performance. It offers a steady weekly rhythm and a shared container, so practice does not have to be carried alone.

Each week we gather live for a 90 minute practice that weaves together yin yoga, restorative and nourishing shapes, somatic awareness and embodied listening, meditation and contemplative inquiry. There is also a monthly yoga nidra rest practice recording.

The emphasis is not on doing more, but on listening more closely. You are invited to arrive as you are, practice at your own pace, and stay in relationship with yourself and the group across the year.

All live sessions are recorded and members have the full archive of practices available to revisit.

The Shape of the Year
TEND follows the Taoist Five Elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water as a way of listening to the natural rhythms of growth, fullness, integration, release, rest, and renewal. These five elements map on to specific pairings of energy meridians in the body, according to Chinese Medicine, which will inform our practice.

Rather than rigid dates or sharp transitions, we move seasonally, allowing spaciousness, exploration and time for integration. Each element forms a chapter of the year, shaping the tone of practice, reflection, and inquiry.

More info: https://michelleteasdale.net/tend

We begin just after the Spring Equinox with the energy of Wood.

24/01/2026

Love my new pixie mullet! Thanks .shears 🙏

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20/01/2026

Something new is forming.

In April 2026, I’ll be hosting a year-long series of monthly online sharing circles called
Spiralling - An Elemental Journey.

This is a slow, relational passage through the elemental energies of human experience, not as a linear path, but as a spiral we move through together. These are the five elements in the Tibetan Buddhist mandala.

Each month includes:
• a sharing circle within the structure of a closed cohort
• exploration of each element in its shadow and light forms, through contemplation, journalling and sharing
• space to share and be witnessed around each particular elemental theme

We move through the elements twice:
first meeting their encumbered or shadow expressions (confusion, anger, inadequacy, craving, busyness), then returning to those same elements to explore their wisdom qualities (spaciousness, clarity, equanimity, discernment, all-accomplishing wisdom).

Nothing to fix, no bypassing, everything belongs.

There’s also an optional “choose your own adventure” path: monthly 1:1 sessions with me for those who want to explore the Mandala Method more personally alongside the group journey.

The full invitation is now live.
If something in you resonates with this work, you’re warmly welcome.

✨ Link in bio
🤍 by donation, pay what you are able
🌀 Starts April 2026
💻 Online | limited group

19/01/2026

I love to practice restorative yoga at this time of the year, when the voices on social media etc about how we should be setting goals and targets can be LOUD!

On my Substack today, I'm sharing a full-length restorative yoga class. Subscriptions are £6 per month (but if finances are a barrier then do reach out).

Link in bio/stories...

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Brighton And Hove

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http://michelleteasdale.net/

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