Karen Pullan Yoga and Wellbeing

20/12/2025

Merry Christmas, happy solstice. Enjoy your celebrations how ever you celebrate. 🍾

19/12/2025

After a week of full on classes, community parties and volunteering. It’s time to take a break. Have a wonderful break everyone. Xx

18/12/2025

"Surround yourself with strong women, women more beautiful than you, smarter than you, and don't envy them, admire them.
Surround yourself with good women who know how to listen, who know how to care, from whom you learn to relate to the world, women who teach you their power.
Surround yourself with women to weave an invisible web, a web for other women, so you don't let them fall, so they feel the collective hug, so they don't feel alone or crazy.
Surround yourself with women who embrace their shadow, who don't apologize for being light, who are aware of their beauty and that they are alive.
Surround yourself with irreverent and brave women, women fighters who open the way and tear down walls, women of reference, women who do not ask for permission, who build their homes with the same hands, with which they cradle and caress.
Surround yourself with women who help you live as you are, who give you confidence and affection, who remind you that they are all one."
Roy Galán

17/12/2025

This! Who is with me?

16/12/2025

14/12/2025

When so much of the green world has gone underground, when roots are deep in their dark work, dreaming leaves and light, dark,
rosemary stays green.

Winter moves through them differently,
green, resinous, alive with warmth.

Rosemary is a remembering plant, used to strengthen memory and sharpen recall.
They carry old stories of mourning and devotion,
used to remember the dead and hold the living steady, trusted to keep the mind gathered
and clear as light thins and days grow short.

In the body, they warm what has grown cold.
Moving blood toward fingers and toes,
eases winter stiffness,
stirs digestion slowed by darkness and heavy food.
They lift fog from the head, gently encouraging clarity, not just of facts, but of self.

In the nervous system, rosemary brings warmth, courage and clarity, encouraging focus and aliveness without strain.

A sprig in hot water is enough.
The scent alone is medicine, resin and pine,
sun-held hillsides, rising with the steam.

This is the tea I reach for on dark mornings.
When I need to gather my thoughts, warm my hands around a mug, and remember who I am beneath the layers.

Even now, when the land is resting, rosemary stands green and giving, a small act of generosity in the heart of winter.
Brigid Anna McNeill

13/12/2025

Don’t keep wearing the mask.
The world already has enough women pretending they don’t feel.

That smile you force when you’re breaking…
the “I’m fine” you say when you’re exhausted…
the strength you hold when your soul is begging for rest—
that mask is heavier than any real pain.

Taking it off doesn’t make you weak.
It makes you honest.
It makes you human.
It sets you free.

Yoga teaches us what no one else ever did:
healing begins the moment you allow yourself to be you—
without disguise, without armor, without fear.

Breathe.
Let the mask go.
Return to your truth.
It’s lighter than you imagine. 🌿

13/12/2025

What a wonderful, wonderful time we had this afternoon in our mini pre Christmas amble through some deeply relaxing yoga and sound bath with a little break for refreshments. It was truly joyous for Michael and I as the teachers and we hope you all had a wonderful afternoon too.
Howden Clough Community Centre