Roisin Santin Yoga

10/10/2025

Mindful or mind full?// modern living has us racing through days, battling incessant demands, digitally distracted and living on autopilot. If we don’t pause, the weeks just merge into one another- a series of indistinguishable tasks, to do lists and events. When one is completed, there’ll be another few to take their place. It can seem that rest, stillness and peace have become luxuries that have to be earned once we’ve done enough.

Mindful moments support us to be fully present whatever we’re doing; fully aware of our thoughts and feelings without getting caught up in them. In doing so, we develop moment-to-moment awareness which helps us to be less reactive and gives us a chance to notice, to pause and to breathe. Being mindful won’t eliminate life’s stresses or challenges but will allow us to be more thoughtful in how we respond.

Here’s a quick guide to mindfulness:
1: take a comfortable, seated upright position. Close your eyes.
2: notice your breath, the inhales, the exhales, the pauses in between
3: dont control, just observe. If you get distracted, just come back to the sensation of the breath

21/09/2025

Beginning// Yoga is not for the flexible, but the willing! We all begin right where we are; simply focus on the journey of exploration instead of perfectionism. Every breath is a chance to start over. True practice is about becoming more self aware and letting go of expectations in order to grow and experience real freedom.
There is a practice for everyone. Jump on the mat and see!
Monday and Wednesday 6pm Torrent Complex Donaghmore
Thursday 7.30 Caledon Community centre
Friday 8pm NIDRA Torrent Complex

05/10/2024

SAFE BIRTH// pregnancy and birth rightly give us a dose of anxiety- so much is unknown and for most we hope and pray that it all goes as best as it can. We expect that what ever way we decide to give birth, that we will have access to all the medical care, professionals, medicines and post natal resources so that our babies can be safely delivered and cared for. But what happens when you are in a war zone? When there is famine? When there is mass displacement? When the medical supplies are being blocked and the hospital facilities lie in bombed out ruins?
Pregnant women and new mothers in Ga*a have been living through hell for the last year. Since the violence in escalated in October 2023 pregnant women are now three times more likely to miscarry. And if they carry their baby to full term, women are now three times more likely to die in childbirth.

Due to the decimation of available healthcare and the significant restrictions on the work of aid agencies, pregnant women and new mothers have not had access to the basic health and nutrition requirements as per international standards.

Please come along to our donation classes on Sunday 20 October in aid of

31/01/2024

Rest // resting in stillness can be a challenge; sometimes it can feel more arghhh than ahhhh!

You’re not alone if you’ve been lying in savasana and all of a sudden you’ve got an uncomfortable itch that you just need to scratch; or the monkey mind starts grasping from thought to thought because it suddenly has nothing to ‘do’.

In Savasana, the body and mind get a chance to absorb and integrate the effects of the practice. It’s also an important practice for the nervous system to recalibrate and reset. When we give our weight to the floor and allow gravity to hold us, we allow ourselves to release everything we are holding onto – physically, mentally and emotionally.

There is a reason why savasana is paradoxically the most challenging yet rewarding part of your practice!

24/12/2023

Heartfelt gratitude to everyone that showed up on a mat, supported me, taught me and kept me going through 2023. Wishing you all the wonder and magic of Christmas x

07/11/2023

Solas// lean towards your inner light during this 4 hour self care workshop to help nurture and guide you through the darker winter days.

The soothing sensory morning includes:
Yoga 🧘‍♀️
Light meditation 🕯️
Nidra ☮️
Sound bathing 👂🏼
Lunch 🥗

Details:
Venue- Caledon Courthouse
Date: Sunday 26 November
Time: 10-2pm
Investment: £45*

DM
f: thebewellclinic.ie

24/10/2023

Humble warrior// I taught a sequence in my class yesterday that I had been practicing as I drafted it and thought it was really ‘great’. Without a doubt the ‘greatness’ of this class ebbed away as it didn’t translate to a class that ended up facing in all different directions. Fortunately we were all unified in laughter. It was a humbling experience and a class where I learned that reality and expectation are two different teachers.

The class concluded with these beautiful words by Erin Hansen; so as the saying goes “all’s well that ends well”

27/09/2023

Agnes soundscape // when life throws you a weather warning, have a natural soundscape for your practice. Thank you to everyone that made it to class this evening, Agnes is not half as fierce as you guys 🙏

26/09/2023

Svadhyaya // All yoga leads to Svadhyaya or self-study; this Sanskrit word, like many, has a richer history than can easily be captured in one or two English words.

The aim of Svadhyaya is to bring our experience of consciousness into awareness. This is a process of self-discovery, of learning and unlearning and it requires honesty and discipline.

In paying attention to the Self, we become more aware. We notice the impact of the ego on our actions, the things that we do to harm ourselves. We recognise what serves us and helps bring us closer to our true Self.

Svadhyaya on and off the mat helps us discern between habits that come from the ego and habits that come from the true Self.

Practice taking a step back. Observe and question your actions without self criticism or negative self talk. Allow the process of Svadhyaya to reveal yourself.

Walt Whitman illuminates the concept of svadhyaya in “Song of Myself”:

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. . . .

Myself moving forward then and now and forever, Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
Infinite and omnigenous. . . .

I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth, I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,(They do not know how immortal, but I know.)

17/09/2023

07/09/2023