Active Wellbeing by Stardust Natasha

02/01/2026

Welcoming 2026 😁
Celebrating 2025

🌟Firstly
As ever. Open door policy- Just ask!
Fitnessandwellbeingwithnatasha@gmail.com

🌟Secondly
An overdue greeting post
I asked AI for grounding quotes to accompany this pic.

Wanting to express myself as a person & as a part time business that has successfully, surprisingly, gratefully survived the lockdown & (solo parenting some of you may relate to) by using the very same teachings delivered throughout wellbeing sessions and talks that I’ve been privileged to run during 30 years working and volunteering in social inclusion via integrated wellbeing. This post sends greetings, smiles, winks and blessings for your healthy focused targets and fun times ahead.

🌟What’s on offer?
Yoga Kid’s Parties/Zen Dos and specialised wellbeing talks and workshops for the pre-post natal group, family yoga and supporting independence for the frail and elderly.

My offerings still
include singing, guided mindful movement and sharing circles for all ages to nurturing peace, open hearts and positive mindsets. All of which naturally provide nervous system regulation and are trauma informed based on my own lived experiences. Happy to help!

🌟The January-March diary is full. You’ll find me continuing to bob up and down like a happy apple. I’ll keep you posted on progress.

🌟Rumi wisdom for you
Rumi's grounding quotes emphasize finding inner truth, connecting to your essence, and trusting the process, often using nature as a metaphor, with key themes including listening to the inner voice, being present, finding light in wounds, and understanding you are the universe, urging us to seek within rather than externally for fulfillment.

Here’s three favourites with life long relatability & poignant notability-

"Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots."

“Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence."

“The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth."

🌟The healthy tip bit
Workout your tension spots after the holiday sluggishness, over Indulgance (and like me the sleep hangovers) by stretching slowly, mindfully instead of mindlessly rushing and begin to untangle the muscles and facia.
Read more about fascia here https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17spTihQiZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Follow along to this simple routine for fun’s sake to get the body going! https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=children%20teaching%20yoga&udm=7&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5 =ive&ip=1&vld=cid:3efe7a50,vid:Luzy017rIFA,st:0

Music to inspire by Emile Sande You’re an Extraordinary Being’
Singalong / read https://youtu.be/ZuS3jH_GEvE

Music vid
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NnYsk7jfUTE

23/11/2025

In three weeks you could be going to this event!

When Saturday 13th Dec 6.30-8.30pm
Where 16 Trinity Square Llandudno https://www.16trinity.co.uk/

So this couple's yoga is designed to encourage nervous system co-regulation. What does that mean? It means realllllly taking care of each other!

Click to book here 😊-https://bit.ly/CosyChristmasCouplesYoga

If you’re looking to regularly cultivate your own yoga and try new ways to understand each other without distractions. Or you just want to try a different kind of fun together. These events don’t disappoint.

Event insight:
Explore the power of the five senses

Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch are the primary ways the body perceives the world by using specialized organs to detect external info

Sight uses the eyes to see, hearing uses the ears to listen, smell uses the nose to detect, taste uses the tongue and mouth for flavours, and touch uses skin to feel textures and temperatures. These senses provide a comprehensive understanding of our environment and can be used in fun ways!

What will happen in the event apart from partner poses to ease tension, breathing practices, music and quality time together and time for a cuppa?

Share relationship goals together with a simple written love letter pen & paper exercise

Learn immediately effective techniques to care for each other when you need to relax

Enjoy the magic of mindfulness practice of noticing and allowing and building trust

Click to book here 😊-https://bit.ly/CosyChristmasCouplesYoga

02/07/2025

A behind the scenes post
Today I got into something new. Using AI on Canva I had a go at making a video.

Step 1
Add pics

Step 2
Add a note about what the video is about

Step 3
Click to start the process.

Tadah!
AI generated the overlay text by reading what it saw. It also put the pics in a story telling sequence!

09/01/2025

An insight post into Wellbeing in the care setting

What a privilege to bring joy, health and happiness to people

On Monday one of the residents where I deliver twice weekly wellbeing. Who is 93 years old, requested the song Shotgun by George Ezra to workout too!

Want a Wellbeing Activity in your community?
👍Why not call to chat about running a one off Wellbeing Event?
👍07919131516

Read on for more info or click this link to get nosey https://www.fitnessforwellbeing.co.uk/1-2-1s-and-exercise-rehabilitation/stroke-and-disability-fitness

Teaching Older Adult Classes is a blessing!
Nearly 20 years ago I began teaching Keep Fit using a qualification obtained in 2006 called ‘Exercise Referral’. Prior to that I was risk assessing, delivering and evaluating classes, coaching health and fitness via lifestyle consultations and designing gym programs for the general public and the over 50s. This took place in very posh private gyms in Watford, and Bromley and at the University Maes Glas Sports Hall Bangor and in leisure centres across Anglesey (sounds odd as I’m three months away from my own 50th!).

I always included balance work, games and big banter. My favourite type of workout. Lots of stretching and breathing exercises too. So chilled and so much 🤩 fun.

A few years later I took another qual called ‘Prevention of Falls for the Frail and Elderly’. During my ten years working part time contracted as an Exercise Referral Professional with Anglesey County Council. I developed massive huge respect for the elders who regardless of their medical considerations, levels of pain and limitations taught me so much about real resilience.

Its a kinda magic One of the ladies who was 80, blind in one eye, had double hip replacement and one knee replacement always, beat her personal best at wall press ups. I made sure she knew that most 20 year olds couldn’t do 60 in one set!Here’s some of the excellent effort put in by the resident’s chair based wellbeing.

After a warm up, tailored mobility exercises, breathing practices and some chatting. We also used soft balls to enhance mind body connection. Squeezing them in between the knees. These exercises are taken from the prenatal tool kit to not only work on the large hip and leg muscles but also encourage pelvic floor strengthening. They enjoyed the singalongs as always! We finished with some relaxing together before they got ready for their tea.

😊Want a Wellbeing Session for your residents in a care, community or nursing home setting?

Choose your musically inspiring chair based wellbeing:
⭐️Tai Chi
⭐️Yoga
⭐️Dance & sing with scarves
⭐️School Assembly Singalong
⭐️Memory Lane Radio Singalong
⭐️Physio Style Therapy
⭐️Fun tennis
⭐️Wheelchair based activities

I’ve two spots available on a weekly basis. Prices start at £80 per hour based on up to ten people taking part and vary according to type of residence, level of physical or mental health, number of attendees and location.

Get a feel for more here https://www.fitnessforwellbeing.co.uk/1-2-1s-and-exercise-rehabilitation/stroke-and-disability-fitness

✅ Enhanced DBS
✅ Manual Handling & First Aid Trained
✅ Fully insured & equipped to bring the person centred approach

Why not call to chat about your one off Wellbeing Event? 07919131516

07/01/2025

🔥 Family Yoga is back today yeaaa & every Tuesday 4:30-5.30pm during term time.

It requires no previous experience. Being yourself is essential. So bring yourself, your beauty.

Divided into two short 25 min sessions suitable from birth to 12 years of age for all abilities at Colwyn Bay Leisure Centre and funded by Ffit Conwy Leisure Development 🙏🏽

🧘🏽‍♀️Sharing this style of class/circle time free creative movement and musical space has brought so much joy into my life.

🧘🏽‍♀️As Youth Mindfulness Teacher and Children’s Yoga Teacher for nearly a decade. The pure unconditional act of play has presented bountiful opportunities to connect on a heart space level. Watching families do this is a gift.

🧘🏽‍♀️Through the eyes of the little humans we can find the answers to the bigger questions in life. They show us how to respond to our emotions without judgement or anxiety and with a free spirit.

🙏🏽Through observation we see they express their humanness in the way they move and engage with us when we hold sacred space for them. In Love.

I welcome families and their friends and caregivers. Suitable for anyone who wants to carve out family time during their busy back to routine diaries!

See you soon 😊

Family Yoga 👨‍👩‍👦

A family friendly class, suitable for children aged 2 – 12 and their parent/guardian.

It's free and no need to book.

*Funded by Actif North Wales

04/01/2025

Hello 2025 & HNY to All 😃
Banner update in the other group page I run voluntarily to help people meet their full potential. This is one of the ways I work towards my Core Values.

Conwy Fitness & Movement Based Wellbeing For Everyone is celebrating nearly eight years in action supporting Conwy residents, businesses and families 😃

My mission in the next two months is to create a Canva banner, or recruit a volunteer to do it. Get in touch if you’re interested! Team work makes the dream work 👌

Questions were asked
I also asked the teens in my circle to come up with ideas for the banner and considered the ideas put forward so far.

They suggested AI.. so I asked ChatGPT too 😄

We thought about using a map of Conwy and multiple images of the business logos. The previous banner showed random images of fitness styles. This time I’d like to show as many of the local businesses and groups as poss.

How can you help?
Please keep inviting new members or commenting on each other’s post in there and in here to boost them up. 🙌

Connect with me here
07919131516

fitnessandwellbeingwithnatasha@gmail.com

Fitnessforwellbeing.co.uk

I may not reply to your email immediately as I work solo but I will!

I’m still delivering -
Singing circles in care home & family settings

Yoga Parties & Zen Dos

121s prenatal post natal or older adult restorative training after a fall or for people with medically controlled conditions

Always happy to help & subject to location & availability 🌞

24/12/2024

So this is Christmas 2024🎄

I want to write a lil something. I love writing & this year 90% of my copy has been necessary, welcomed and reserved for specific audiences and so as such it’s not been suitable to post in all groups. Some of you may have noticed the quiet 😅 with this gear change.

At all times it’s been a learning curve & as eternal learning, unity, loving kindness and helping people reach their full potential are some of my Core Values, my Whys. It’s worked to keep alignment here at what I like to call Heart Centre HQ 😍.

So a hugeeeee thank you to everyone who has or is supporting my work in anyway. Be it a recommendation or a simple share or comment. I really appreciate it.

Thank you 🙏🏽
We’re contributing in our unique ways to connecting others and that in itself is enough and most welcome.

At the almost end of an epic year of personal achievements and self development. I find myself reflecting again on just how incredible we all are. The true beauty of us humans & animals here on 🌍 is in our adaptive capacity. Our resilience. Our long term survival. Our ability to restore balance.

Some quotes I’m using to capture some of this sentiment. To tip my hat to our individual power as it cradles collective presence. I like these:

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit combined with constant restlessness
Albert Einstein

A leader‘s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible
Simon Sinek

I’ve learned that making a living isn’t the same thing as making a life
Maya Angelou

Resilience is a choice It’s choosing to rise above your circumstances and become who You’re meant to be.
David Goggins

Through our work
Through our lifestyle choices we take action
How we show up for others

Ultimately it’s action that defines us isn’t it. The habits we chip away at. The dance of one step forward two steps back cha cha cha. The narrative we adhere to in our heads. The failings and how we respond to integrate them as they add up to overall success. That’s what makes us who we are and creates the interesting stories we tell.

As someone who finds a mini mindfulness meditation in almost every step of the day. I could write for hours. Talk for hours about life & the miracles we are. The suffering, mindsets, exercise disciplines, self healing, foodie stuff, my soul is in the sky blessings that we experience all of which informs the way I think each of us offers a part of who we are to what we do. (That could be the adhefghijklmnop. Or it could be personality 🤷🏽‍♀️). Either way. The study of spirituality as an academic field that explores the human spirit and its qualities, such as compassion, love, and patience combined with leadership and health studies poses some wonderful insights into our psychology and behaviour.

What I see is people really care
What I see is people really want to help people
What I see is that people are kind
What I see is that people want to connect be part of community

I’m inspired by you
Well bloody done sorting through another muddle of year!

I believe It’s our basic instinct. I choose to allow all emotions and feelings and celebrate positives because they alter biochemistry in this body and tint the lens through which I witness our lives. In acknowledging this. This message is a heartfelt, wish for you and your family to have a peaceful cozy Buddha belly laughing memory making endorphin fuelled time this Christmas & New Year ❤️‍🔥🤩🪷

Shanti Shanti Shanti
Peace be with you
Peace Peace Peace

Back here in 2025 till then if you are joining in this dance in spirit I am with you! 💃🕺

04/12/2024

🔥 FREE Family Yoga 🧘🏽‍♀️ last two sessions of 2024 are looking festive…next Tuesday 4:30-5.30pm. Colwyn Bay Leisure Centre.

🥳It requires no previous experience
😃Being yourself is essential. So bring yourself, your beauty

Divided into two short 25 min sessions suitable from birth to 12 years of age for all abilities. No booking needed. Funded by Ffit Conwy Leisure Development.

Why?
Sharing this style of class/circle time free creative movement and musical space has brought so much joy into my life. As Youth Mindfulness Teacher and Children’s Yoga Teacher for nearly a decade. The pure unconditional act of play has presented bountiful opportunities to connect on a heart space level. Watching families do this is a gift 🎁

Join us and bring festive outfits 🎅 Come and explore pose interpreting led by the little people. The Gurus. The experts.

Thank you to the beautiful families who have shared their family time together this year!