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40+ Yoga and Movement Teacher based in Bristol
Shake the Dust ✨ Yoga ✨ Somatics ✨Emotional Regulation
Helping women build healthy bodies, minds and nervous systems through movement, music and a splash of relatable philosophy

04/03/2026

NEW prenatal yoga series begins tomorrow
15 March
Windmill Hill City Farm

Find out more: www.sambullingham.com/prenatal

15/11/2025

Last night's Rhythm&Release was pure magic... with a touch of silly (thanks to The 🤖 Mash - you're welcome!)

We moved. We shaked. We returned to rhythm.

Because rhythm lives inside us:
Heartbeat
Breath
Cells

It's not something we do - it's something we remember

And when we connect with it - especially in community - something shifts. Energy releases. Joy returns. And yes... there's room for silly!

When you let your body lead... you become a living pulse of music and movement = medicine.

Missed last night? Don't worry.

You can join us for a weekly Shake - Tuesday 1930pm

Or hold out for the next monthly Rhythm&Release (AKA Rave&Rest) Friday 12 Dec or Fri 9 Jan

Thanks to everyone who showed up with open hearts (and wiggly hips). You bring the magic ✨️

Sam x

08/11/2025

I’m reading Disobedient by Emma Dabiri, and it’s hitting right at the heart of my work.

She writes: 'By becoming disobedient, my hope is that we can… take pleasure in the experience of our bodies, outside of the restrictions and demands of a system that insists we hate and punish ourselves.'

That’s it. That’s the rebellion.

It’s also why I left classical, dualistic yoga, the Patanjali path of transcendence, and found my place in non-dual Ta**ra becausee the body was never the thing to rise above; It’s the thing to come home to.

My studies in Christianity and Cartesian thought showed me how deeply we’ve inherited this split - body vs. spirit, matter vs. divine. But non-dual Ta**ra says otherwise:

'There is no state apart from this world. When the Self recognises itself in all forms, that is liberation.' Abhinavagupta

Disobedience is descent. Into the body. Into the world. Into the sacred mess of being here, fully.

If you'd like to explore this with me:

💫 Join us for Rhythm & Release on 14 Nov at The Wild Box. A whole hour and a half to embrace your wild!

💫 2 spaces left to explore Winter as a f@&k you to the capitalist, colonial mindset of perpetual growth and more-more-more

💫 Dive deeper into exploring the seasons and non-dual ta**ra with She Moves with the Seasons: A Year of Monthly Gatherings starting in Jan

⬇️ let me know if any of this resonates

Thank you for the absolute gold. Go read this book, my loves ❤️

06/11/2025

Wintering

I write this from my bed, with a virus, my body calling me inward. There’s something in me that’s always been comfortable going against the grain. While the world hums with busyness - always somewhere to go, something to achieve, I find myself leaning toward stillness.

I used to think I was a summer person. Out there with my big, bold ideas, obsessed with the sun, fuelled by light and possibility. But as I get older, I find myself more and more at home in winter. Not because I like it, but because I value it. I’m thankful for its quiet insistence that rest is necessary, that everything has its time.

Slowing down, saying no, doing less, feels like my rebellion. My gentle f**k you to a world that worships exhaustion, extraction, endless productivity.It isn’t always easy to resist that pull. But I’ve learnt the hard way to listen.

Change is the only constant, and nothing in nature resists it. Everything responds, adapts, rests, and renews. So I take my cues from nature.

As we move toward winter, I’ll relish what it asks of me (where I can): more sleep, slow-cooked stews, deep reading, long pauses. A time to turn inward, to learn, to listen.

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03/11/2025

My first yoga teacher training left me deeply uncomfortable.
A room full of women - 99%, all dressed in white - following the voice of a man who told us when to inhale, how long to hold, when to release.

Something in me tightened.
At the time, I couldn’t name it.
I just knew it didn’t feel right.

That moment planted a seed -
a quiet question about power, hierarchy, and the loss of agency that can hide behind spiritual devotion.

The spaces I hold are for women reclaiming agency, trust, and the quiet (and not so quiet) knowing of their own bodies.

No dogma. No fixed no. of breaths. No 'your body should look like this'. No advanced postures. No empty promises.

Upcoming Offerings this Nov

Weekly:
✨️ Shake the Dust
Tuesday 19:30-20:30
Southville Centre, Bristol

Monthly:
✨️ Rhythm & Release
Friday 14 Nov 19:30-21:00
The Wild Box, Bristol

✨️ November's Monthly Gathering // FULLY BOOKED
Sun 16 Nov 10:00-12:00
The Studio, Windmill Hill City Farm

Deeper Dives:
✨️ She Moves with the Seasons: Winter - A 6 week series for women - starts December (3 spaces avaliable)

✨️ NEW: A Year of Monthly Gatherings: One Sunday a month - New intake opens Jan 2026

I'd love to dismantle systems of harm with you ✌️

26/10/2025

As the clocks turn back and we lean into the darker half of the year, I'm excited to share that a second intake of A Year of Monthly Gatherings will open soon - beginning Jan 2026 at Windmill Hill City Farm

This offering was born from a longing to move at the pace of nature - not the system. To gather with the same group of women each month, move with the seasons, and explore what happens when we align our bodies and live with cyclical time.

Our first circle sold out in sept, and it's been such a beautiful grounding journey already. So I'm opening the door for a new group to begin in the new year - a fresh cycle.

We’ll meet one Sunday each month (2–4pm) at the Farm, journeying through a full year of movement, reflection, and reconnection.

If you've been feeling the call to slow down, to meet yourself where you are, and to belong to something steady and nourishing, this is for you.

This is not a drop-in space. It’s an invitation into relationship with yourself, with a small circle, and with the wider rhythms that hold us all.
A gentle counter to the myth of endless growth.

Booking opens to my mailing list this week

Keep your 👀 peeled for booking to open to everyone or send me a dm to be added to my mailing list

16/10/2025

Reflecting on feedback from last month's Rhythm and Release as I curate the soundtrack for this Friday 🎶🫶

Of course, each practice is unique. Im different. You're different & what shows up to be moved through us and out into the world changes. This makes pre-planning a little challenging, as i like to sense into what feels authentic for me to share on the day. I'm not a planner - in life or when it comes to a movement practice.

I'll mostly plan tomorrow, but collating tunes in the run-up is always super fun! ✌️

If you're joining, send me your requests. What songs do you have on repeat right now? 🎶

Rhythm&Release
One friday a month
1930-2100
The Wildbox, Bristol
£25
Upcoming dates: Fri 17 Oct, 14 Nov, 12 Dec

🔗link in bio to join

11/10/2025

Moving back to a city in my 40s gave me the opportunity to question where I fit as a yoga teacher.

The studio model doesn’t quite feel like home - the pace, the structure, the expectation (i self-impose) to teach in a certain way.

I come from community spaces: fields, small halls, circles of people where movement, reflection, and conversation flow together.

I’ve realised that’s still what I value most - spaces that what I share has context and can therefore feel alive, cyclical, and human.

Out of that longing, She Moves with the Seasons was born - three different pathways to connect to the changing seasons through movement, connection, reflection, and honest conversation.

A Year of Monthly Gatherings is one of those pathways:

Twelve gatherings held across the year - the same small group of women coming together for movement, connection, reflection, and honest conversation around ageing, cycles, capitalism, and ta***ic philosophy.

It’s less about 'classes' and more about exploring cycles as antidote to burnout & capitalist bs - together

The September intake sold out and is an absolute joy.

The second intake begins in Jan.

If you’re also finding your own way of belonging - within yoga, within yourself, within this changing world - you might feel at home here.

✨ Send me a dm if you'd like to be one of the first to know.

03/10/2025

Day 1 of my cycle hitting me with some truths 🩸

Taken straight from my bedside notepad.

Are you looking to lean into seasons and cycles as a counter-narrative to perpetual growth, measured outcomes, and burn out? Come join us:

✨️ She Moves with the Seasons: An Autumn Yoga and Sound Ritual - Sun 19 Oct

✨️ Descent: A deep dive into Autumn - exploring descent as holy and rest as radical. Sun 9 Nov

✨️She Moves with the Seasons: Winter opens soon

✨️NEW intake for A Year of Monthly Gatherings starts in Jan and opens soon

All my offerings weave together my studies of non-dual ta***ic teachings, my lived experiences moving with the seasons, working on an organic farm, and my studies into sociology, politics and philosophy, and my passion for guiding somatic movement.

02/10/2025

Allotment appreciation post 💚

An appreciation post for this little plot of sanity in the city.

I moved to Bristol two and a half years ago. When I returned to the UK from KL in 2016, I promised myself I'd never live in a city again. Here I am! 👋

I owe this little plot of land so much

She keeps me in rhythm, reminds me to rest and nourishes my body (with joy, nutrients, and colour)

Thank f**k for communal spaces ✌️

28/09/2025

Without realising it, September was all about LOVE

Turns out everything is about love.

And freedom.

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About Me

I have been practicing yoga for over 15 years and have always been interested in how the body affects the mind and vice versa. I have been fortunate to travel extensively and learn about myself and the world around me through experience, this in combination with a degree in Sociology and Politics has taught me the beauty that lies in observation. When I returned from my travels I trained as a teacher of Religious Education and Philosophy and enjoyed learning more about spirituality, ethics and moral conundrums with the students that I taught. In 2016 I experienced a overwhelming desire to return ‘home’; I gave up my career as a teacher, left Malaysia and moved back to Stroud. Although at times this transition was more difficult than I had anticipated, yoga supported my transition and allowed me to listen to my body and what it was telling me.

I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn how to grow organic food in a way that supports soil health and vitality. I now work at Stroud Community Agriculture and feel privileged to experience the seasons so profoundly. When I feel moments of self-doubt it is yoga that reminds me that I am on the right path.

Although I have been practicing yoga since 2004, it wasn't until 2016 that I began to see yoga as an integral part of my life. In 2018 I completed The British Wheel of Yoga foundation course and in April 2019 I completed my 200 hours (Yoga Alliance Professionals UK accredited) teacher training certificate (TTC) in India. My approach to yoga is one of self-inquiry; yoga is not about creating the perfect shapes or indeed the perfect body, it is a tool to teach you to respect and support the body that you have been given. Yoga is a tool to show you how we can be both strong and supple, overwhelmed and grounded. Most importantly, it is way to help you accept exactly where we are; for that is where we are supposed to be.

All around us nature follows its regular rhythm: it has a time for energy, growth and vitality; a time for relaxation and plenty; a time for storing and harvesting and a time for withdrawal and solitude. In my classes we honour these cyclical rhythms which align us with the changing energies of nature and the seasons. Each class is designed to improve your physical strength and flexibility and bring balance and harmony to your life. In the word of Donn Farhi, ‘the practice is the reward - there is as much pleasure in digging a hole for a sapling as there is in admiring the fully grown tree’.