Sheena Rose Yoga and Herbals

12/07/2025

The symbol of the Wise Woman tradition is a spiral.
A spiral is a cycle as it moves through time.
A spiral is movement around and beyond a circle,
always returning to itself,
but never at exactly the same place.
Spirals never repeat themselves.

The symbol of the Wise Woman tradition is the spiral.
The spiral is the bubbling cauldron.
The spiral is the curl of the wave.
The spiral is the lift of the wind.
The spiral is the whirlpool of water.
The spiral is the umbilical cord.
The spiral is the great serpent.
The spiral is the path of the earth.
The spiral is the twist of the helix.
The spiral is the spin of our galaxy.
The spiral is the soft guts.
The spiral is the labyrinth.
The spiral is the womb-moon-tide mobius pull.
The spiral is your individual life.
The spiral is the passage between worlds:
birth passing into death passing into birth.
The path of enlightenment is the spiral dance of bliss.

~ Susun W**d

Art by Elspeth McLean

10/07/2025

There are moments in our lives when the world feels still, but within that stillness something deeper stirs. The Capricorn Full Moon on July 10, 2025, is one of those moments, a high point of sacred witnessing where our soul’s steady efforts are illuminated under the silvery glaze of the Full Moon.

This lunation asks us to pause and look back at how far we’ve come in order to integrate all we’ve learned on our path thus far.

Capricorn reminds us that maturity is not found in hardness or rigidity, but within the cultivation of inner resilience. It’s not about wearing a mask of strength, but revealing the earned wisdom that comes from enduring.

This particular Full Moon is calling us to check in with our sacred vows, both to ourselves and to those whom we walk beside. What promises are we ready to renew, and which are we finally ready to release?

We are invited to cross a karmic threshold – a space for endings and beginnings. This Full Moon is a wise elder, inviting us to sit beside her – to listen, to reflect, to renew our sacred vows.

Themes:
Integration of the Past and Embodiment of the Future
Sacred Commitments and Wisdom
Soul Evolution
Dreaming new worlds
Caretaking

Saturn retrogrades in Pisces on July 12th until the end of November, creating a deep emotional body clean up. The ancestors are asking you to show up, pay attention, and do the emotional work necessary for lineage healing. This is a powerful time to strengthen your relationship with your ancestors and do your grief work. Have you grieved enough? Retrograde Saturn encourages clean up of bones, spine, structure, old and ancient things, grief. Saturn loves yoga, meditation, physical body strength, all things that come from the earth, and integrity. Put in the work and you will get the results.

Mercury retrogrades in Cancer on July 18th until August 11th. Mind and emotions ask you to awaken your boundaries, heart wisdom, and emotional body intelligence. There will be another layer of emotional body clean up taking place in tandem with Saturn retrograde this month.

These two water signs are creating an invitation to feel more. Use this cycle to listen to your emotional body and let it move, release, flow. Mercury loves to clean up matters of the mind, nervous system, communication, creativity, and abundance.

This Full Moon and Guru Purnima occur in Purvashada nakshatra and Sagittarius. This constellation is ruled by Apas, the water goddess. The Full Moon brings a special blessing of wisdom, nourishment and protection. Guru Purnima, the “full moon of the guru,” honours all teachers, gurus and guides, as well as the inner guru within your heart.

On this Full Moon, take a moment to remember whatever has guided, nourished or protected you in your life journey.

Purva Ashadha, the “Invincible Star,” is symbolised by an elephant tusk. This area of the sky is connected to the elephant-headed god, Ganesha, who is revered as the Remover of Obstacles.

This Full Moon brings a positive momentum and is a good day to make plans and launch projects. A direct aspect (dristi) of Jupiter brings an extra blessing to this expansive Full Moon, however, action must be paired with discernment, as the days following the full moon introduce a complex web of planetary shifts.

Use the coming weeks to tap your resources, and transform darkness into light. Allow yourself to be washed clean. Purify, awaken, seek transformation and renewal through your emotional body.

Allow your inner waters to wash your heart clean, your inner temple. Clear and organise your home space, your outer temple.

Bring more sattva (lightness) to your environment. Allow Spirit to be a resource for gathering clarity, wisdom and support while setting intentions for your health, life and soul’s purpose for the coming cycles.

Go slow, be gentle with yourselves and others. Relationships are a powerful source of healing in the cycle ahead- especially the relationship with yourself. Love yourself enough to tenderly care for your inner and outer needs through respect, clarity and intention.

Despite any challenging planetary influences, Guru Purnima Full Moon is a window of expansion and hope.

To those who have been a beacon of light for others:
Guru Brahma,
Guru Vishnu,
Guru devo Maheshwara,
Guru sakshat, param Brahma,
tasmai shri guravay namah.

Guru is the creator, sustainer and the destroyer.
It is the transcendental divinity,
the timeless life-principle, the very essence of the creator.
I make my offering to the Guru, the auspicious remover of my darkness and my ignorance;
My salutations of gratitude for that glorious teacher.
— A prayer from the Guru Gita
in the Skanda Purana (6th-15th century AD)

We have been moving through an extremely transformative passage and whatever experiences have unfolded for each of us they have brought us to a new place…
Capricorn embodies our elder wisdom which guides us to stay in alignment with our Soul….

There are seeds of love taking root, slowly unfurling within us - and so our task is to keep grounding in the rich soil of our earth, our bodies and our rituals, so that we can fortify our nervous systems and strengthen our channels of light…

Bowing to the feet of the Guru

25/06/2025

The New Moon in Cancer June 25th is part of a longer becoming. A collective initiation. This New Moon is a rare moment in the eye of a storm. As collective skies darken and the winds of change accelerate, this new moon calls for clarity.

The Cancer New Moon arrives, feeling like a soft exhale, a much needed invitation to return to self, to stillness, and to the quiet wisdom of the inner world.

The Sun and Moon meet Jupiter and Mercury in Cancer, drawing us inward—at a moment where many of us may feel raw, uncertain, and overwhelmed.

This Moon asks us to listen from the inside out.
To feel what’s beneath the surface.
To tend to what’s been left unseen.
Grit, grief and grace.

The call to grow, to rebuild, to forge new structures of care, first within ourselves. And then in the world at large.

If you’re tired, unsure, or searching for a sense of safety - let this be a moment to feel held.

Any discomfort arrives to shape you. To help you build capacity.
To name where care is needed.

The new moon falls in the area of the sky called Ardra Nakshatra—”the star of storms,” that has the shakti to stir up storms. Ruled by the wild form of Lord Shiva, Rudra, Ardra awakens an inner tempest of feelings that must be witnessed and honoured. Symbolised by a teardrop, Ardra New Moon can bring tears, but also bring nourishing rains of resolution and peace.

This New Moon is a unique opportunity that could give a rare glimpse into your heart, your truth and your future. Listen carefully.

A tricky combination of planets pushes the edge of reality as we know it - secrets, censorship, and backdoor manipulations.

This New Moon is a powerful time to turn within and face what divides, whether collectively or on a personal level.

After a series of astrological high tides, this lunation is a balm, reminding us that safety is not something we chase, but something we cultivate and establish within.

Cancer is the archetype of the womb, the hearth, the heart that remembers who we are when the world feels noisy.

But this New Moon is more than an offering for emotional renewal, it is a threshold that is marked by its exact conjunction with Jupiter in Cancer, and its square to the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries; a rare and potent cosmic meeting that challenges us to embody spiritual leadership, emotional maturity, and the courage to surrender what no longer nurtures us.

We are redefining what it means to be “home” - in our bodies, our relationships, our creative expression.

This lunation is not a passive journey, it’s an active reclamation. A remembering. A cosmic invitation to choose softness as strength, devotion as direction, and sensitivity as sacred power.

We are stepping into a new paradigm, one where truth is gentle, care is normal, and softness is not weakness. We can allow the waves of this New Moon wash over the parts of us that have been yearning to be held.

Reflections
• What does it feel like to come home to Self?
• can I soften into flow?
• What does “being held” feel like in my body?
• What would change if I believed that slowing down was sacred?
• What messages have been whispered through my intuition that I’m ready to honour and to envision?

This is the rebirth of self-trust rooted in intuitive knowing and gentle boundaries.

This lunation teaches us that faith is not passive; it’s an inner alignment that guides our steps with grace.

This is a Portal of Quantum Change - something new is being born through the cracks.

In a world that feels like it’s cracking open
Let the waters hold you.

loving U ###

11/06/2025

The Sagittarius Full Moon arrives like a call from the future, an inner fire flickering in the direction of expansion, truth, and infinite possibility. This moon is not quiet. It is searching, stretching – our beliefs, our idea of Self, and our willingness to rewrite all we thought we knew.

There is a profound honesty in this Moon. A wild beauty. The future is calling through intuition, imagination, and trust. There is a tension between where we have come from and where we are destined to travel.

Called “Strawberry Moon” which comes from Indigenous North American traditions, marking the season of harvesting wild strawberries. This is a moon of abundance, celebration, and full-hearted expression.

Sometimes illumination comes from movement and flow. Sometimes it finds us mid-dance, heart pounding, mind open, our soul free.

Jupiter is moving into Cancer just before this Full Moon. A new cycle of leading from the heart. Dreaming bigger, feeling more deeply, learning how to follow our inner compass. Growth comes through deep roots. we welcome the blessing of these healing energies that are here to support us in moving toward what feels most authentic, nurturing and true…

The Sagittarius Full Moon reminds us that we are not meant to stay small, safe, or silently aligned with outdated dreams.
We are meant to expand, to express, and to evolve. Through purpose. Through asking more evolved questions. The journey ahead is not linear. It’s soulful. It’s spiralling. It’s filled with wild grace.

This Full Moon is a threshold. A bright, brave one. And the only thing it asks is that we tell ourselves the truth.

Themes
The Quest for Personal Truth: This lunation asks us to claim a truth that is truly ours, not the narrative we were handed.
A karmic crossroads: softness, trust, release.
• What truth have I been circling around?
• What belief no longer belongs to the version of me I’m becoming?
• What part of me is longing to explore, create, or express, even if it doesn’t yet “make sense”?

Our Self is like the phoenix and is the beautiful shape of us that remains as we are forged through the fires of our lives… it is what is most beautiful about us because it is what’s most tender and real…

This full moon of June 11th 2025 ignites courage, clarity, and inner strength in the face of chaotic change. Themes of respect, authority, and freedom burn brightly now, as this Full Moon casts a bold light into the shadows of oppression, self-doubt, and suppressed truth.

This Full moon Falls within sidereal (in Jyotish) Scorpio, a sign of deep emotional intensity and transformation. Scorpio is ruled by the red planet, Mars, which is now transiting sidereal Leo, sparking creativity, will power, and courage to rise after a fall.

The Full Moon is in the area of the sky called Jyestha, the star of the elder queen, a revered goddess of power. Over time, Jyestha Devi has been misunderstood as she fell from her position as queen. Consider, in what ways you have felt disenfranchised, or where you’ve perhaps internalised a lack of self-worth because of age, origin, or identity. Jyestha full moon is a call to reclaim what has been exiled within you.

There is also a chaotic influence called Kala Sarpa Yoga, an alignment called the “serpent of time” which continues to stir up collective karmic storms. There’s a sense of a squeeze within the serpent—a collective karmic pressure that can awaken, but also overwhelm.

In 2025 and 2026, Saturn is aligning with the nebulous planet Neptune, signaling an important historical turning point. Old structures are dissolving and large-scale social shifts are approaching. This Full Moon casts a revealing light on shifting ideologies.

It’s an auspicious time for travel, learning, and meaningful exchange. Let this full moon guide you to a deeper connection with your inner wisdom and voice.

In ancient cultures, those who embodied the original spark of spirit – priests, visionaries, mystics, creators – were held in the highest regard.

Why? Because they tapped into the primordial fire – the source code, the living intelligence behind all form. They were the intention-setters. The architects of possibility.

So it begins with a spark, a sacred fire – it all begins in the light. This is you, the path is revealed …. The deep knowing of you

Keep walking in Beauty

Always loving ###

02/06/2025

Hello dear ones

Firstly, Palestine 🍉 because how can we pretend otherwise

And, I have one space in each of my weekly classes this June, Monday and Friday mornings and Wednesday evenings.

Classes take place in my private yoga space in BS16. All equipment is provided, plus warm herbal tea. We begin each class with herbal oils and essence to help settle the nervous system and prepare us for practice 🌺🌿

I work with a combination of hatha yoga, ta**ra, Chinese 5 elements philosophy and Ayurveda, weaving a practice to balance the outer seasons of the year with the inner seasons of our bodies

As we enter summer days we’ll be working with grounding and heart opening practices, bringing in the warmth and honouring our journeys through the year so far 💛🌼🌞
Heart opening requires preparation, so we’ll welcome the holding of the Earth, listen to the voice of the heart and move in the way that our inner wisdom guides us - each person at their own pace

This term we’ll be working with the energies of Lakshmi and Mary Magdalene - come along to find out more 🌹

As we prepare for the summer break and all the adventures it brings, this nourishment of Earth and heart ♥️ helps us hold our centre and open to joy with a greater sense of ease

*Mondays and Fridays* 9.30-10.30 for 5 weeks
*Wednesdays* 7.45-8.45pm for 5 weeks

£45/50 as you are able

Please be in touch if you would like to find out more

I’ll be here, devoting my practice to peace ☮️ 🍉

With big heart love

Sheena
♥️

01/06/2025

During June I have some appointments available for specialist abdominal massage, from my private therapy space in BS16 in east Bristol. These sessions can be booked on Mondays, Wednesdays or Saturdays on a sliding scale of £50-75 for an hour and a half treatment.

This form of abdominal massage weaves together rebozo rocking and wrapping, and hands on massage using handcrafted herbal aromatherapy oils.
The treatment helps bring focus to your entire abdominal and pelvic area, increasing circulation of both blood flow and energy.
If you are in a postnatal period, the treatment will also include specialist postnatal recovery massage 💗

Abdominal massage can be a wonderful support for pelvic health, helping us connect to our deep inner organs, and easing symptoms relating to hormonal health, gut health and lower back pain.

Treatment begins with rocking of the pelvis with a rebozo, a special cloth woven for both strength and flexibility, to help relax the muscles around the abdominal area in preparation for massage. After the massage we wrap the pelvis with the rebozo and take time for a guided relaxation, allowing for the benefits of the treatment to be absorbed and integrated.

I have been practicing massage therapy since 2007, with a special focus of female health since 2013. Working with herbal oils helps to bring an added layer of depth to the treatment, our plant friends bringing their own special wisdom 🌿

It is an honour to share this potent healing practice with you

If you have any questions please reach out to me,

Sheena 🌹
namasteyamyoga@gmail.com

27/05/2025

Belly all wrapped up after abdominal spiral massage 🔻
day 2 of the Womb care challenge 🔶

Feelings of deep nourishment and rest, self care, love and support... What a beautiful practice 💜

My deepest gratitude to for this sharing 🙏🏼

27/05/2025

Amisha is one of the teachers I return to every year, her offerings are so rich. If you feel called I recommend reading out 🌹

I have found the past five years to be full of intensity - grief, betrayal, illness, genocide and more. Although the circumstances we all find are different - there seems to be a thread that many people I speak to have felt pushed during these years - to face themselves and society - to deepen their capacity.

You might wonder what does a goddess like Lakshmi offer in times of crisis - there is a softness and grace - a strength and hope - to create something more beautiful, to appreciate the sweetness we have - to bring an anchoring of generosity, ecology and justice into the way we live.

When times are harder, it’s easy to put up walls, and go into fight or flight. Some of you know I have been caring for my mum for five years, although the past three have been the most intense. People often tell me I need to go live my own life, and speak of the burden. I don’t relate to that as this is my life to tend to what is here - and what I have found is that rather than see it as a burden, I see it as an opportunity to deepen, in my capacity for love and patience, in my capacity to be with things that are challenging and horrendous, in my capacity to anchor the sacred in the small moments. I am allowing myself to be transformed in beautiful ways through the challenge.

We tend to think of wealth as money and material success, but the eight forms of Lakshmi, the Ashta Lakshmi, shows us that there are different forms of wealth and how we can understand the abundant nature of life. We will explore these more deeply in The Radiant Field. It starts today.

Comment Yes to receive the eight different forms of Lakshmi and to find out more about The Radiant Field. We start today (and there is even a little late bird offer there for you).

Love Amisha

12/05/2025

The Scorpio Full Moon of May 12th comes with a breakthrough in vision, purpose and courage. If you’ve been under the spell of uncertainty, this full moon brings in a wave of clarity. In this time of profound transition, everything is shifting – some things are crumbling, others emerging.

And no one knows this better than Scorpio - the sign that has ‘transformation’ woven into its DNA - transformation means we take something that is important to us and let it evolve into something else - something perfect for our next phase.

While we might be moving into completely new territories, we always carry the distilled essence of our past, our experiences, and our soul’s memory.

If we went on a journey and could only take a small bag, we would pack only what is truly of value to us, what we cannot live without. Everything else may be lovely, may carry memories and attachments but it cannot come with us.

Similarly, it’s the core, distilled truth of our identity that truly matters. Whenever we drift off course, it’s usually because we’ve forgotten who we are – that essential spark, the big why of our existence.

The Full Moon in Scorpio invites us to let go of the non-essential, while at the same time holding onto what’s deeply meaningful.

If you feel you have a foot in 2 worlds right now, then soon, very soon, we’ll be standing fully in a new world – birthing something new from the ashes of all that we’ve outgrown.

Embracing Shadow
Revolutionising our Values
Speaking Truth
Transforming our Minds

Before we plant something new, we must first break the ground.

Scorpio governs what is hidden beneath the surface - the secrets, the shadows, the desires we’ve buried just to survive.

And under this lunation, those roots stir.
A calling to break up what’s compacted.
To let oxygen in.
To make space for life.
It will ask you to plant something bold.
To take courageous action rooted in truth.
What lies deep within you is asking to grow
This is your moment to soften what’s gone rigid.
To loosen old identities, dynamics, and defences.
To trust that what’s decaying is not lost — it’s becoming compost.

The Full Moon falls in the area of the sky called Vishakha nakshatra, the star of purpose. Vishakha promotes clear focus and has the shakti (energy) to “achieve many goals.” The symbol of this lunar mansion is a triumphal archway. Indra and Agni both rule over this Full Moon. Together they burn away confusion and self-doubt by stoking a fire of courage and conviction.

This full moon is also celebrated as Buddha Purnima; the birthday and day of enlightenment of the Buddha who taught illumination through the steady focus of mind. Meditation can be enhanced on this full moon, as Vishakha amplifies one-pointed focus.

On May 14th, Jupiter moves us towards the evolution of philosophies and belief systems. And on May 18th Rahu and Ketu shift into Aquarius and Leo bringing a karmic turning moment.

Despite collective upheaval, the Vishakha Full Moon shines a ray of light through the storm clouds of recent weeks. This is a powerful time to re-centre yourself, reflect, and lay the groundwork for what is to come.

illuminating the unseen. There is a kind of magic occurring between A Scorpio Full Moon in a Ta**us Sun. You can sense something in the wind, a feeling of something, a deep longing. Scorpio is like fire water. Like a phoenix that rises up through deep waters, and the karmic wheels of samsara churn us from those depths, continually bringing us through death into new life…
It’s the depths beneath the deep, it’s the heart of the matter.

By facing our shadows, speaking our truth, and embracing change, we allow ourselves to evolve into more authentic and empowered versions of ourselves.

We must trust in the process, and know that from the ashes, the phoenix rises
Deep truths will emerge

Be gentle with our hearts and remember that beneath it all there is a river of love that continues to flow and carry us all…

The river is growing, flowing
Mother carry us

Loving ###

28/04/2025

A New Moon in Ta**us on 27th April 2025 arrives. Tender, emotional, a rebirth. What are you ready to reset? How are you connecting to your prana, your vital life force on the inside?

The Ta**us New Moon arrives like a salve for a deeply tender spot; a soft, steady pulse amidst the swirl of our deeper transformation.

In the quiet of this lunation, we are called home to the body, to the earth, and to what we truly value, when everything else falls away.

This moment is not just a new beginning. It is a reclamation of grounded power, beauty, and a life built from devotion.

This New Moon is not only about resting, restoration and rejuvenation. It forms a potent T-square with Mars in Leo, and Pluto in Aquarius, creating tension between personal will, collective pressure, and the slow, sacred rhythms of our heart. There is a release point in Scorpio which asks us to go deeper, to transform from within, to trust that we are shedding so we can fully choose what’s next.

The path forward isn’t found through control; it’s felt through trust, softness, and love that flows from deep within our soul.

This is a moon for rooting into what matters most. For re-establishing our relationship with true abundance and gentle living. For remembering that the most fertile ground is the one that feels most like who we really are.

The Ta**us New Moon offers us a quiet kind of power, the kind that doesn’t need to prove itself, just to be who it is. It’s a reminder that our flow is allowed to be sacred, our worth is not up for debate, and our deepest longings deserve to take root in reality.

There are moments in life when we feel the tension - between who we’ve been and who we’re becoming, between what we want — and what the world is asking of us. Yet here amidst the tension, there lives a new sense of what we can fully commit to.

This Moon brings one of those moments.

You may feel stretched between the courage to act and the pressure to conform. Yet, freedom is there, held deep within your tension.

It’s here to awaken you.
To show you what truly matters.
To help you align your will with your deeper wisdom.
This is a new chapter of worth and Self-belonging
Tension can be a Catalyst
Rooting in Trust

It is essential for us to remember that each of us has things rising to show us what needs to be transformed, so that we can move into a new experience…

on some level this is happening for all of us

cutting some chords, opening the door to a new cycle. Trust in the growth process. The seed must die to birth a plant, a tree, and to fully to flourish.

Here, today, we embrace all of the earthly parts of ourself and we sink deeper into our Soul that is here, having a human experience.

Ta**us invites us to a gentler, more grounded connection with the Earth, our breath, our bodies…

we can see where things might be heading and realise we might need to choose another path, shift a pattern or commit to trusting what wants to be birthed through us… with experience and age, we learn to listen to our soul, to our heart. We learn to understand resistance as the voice of our soul guiding us. Awakening is about listening to and following our heart.

Now, under the dark sky of this potent new moon, seeds of a new beginning are being planted — even in the ashes of what has been. It’s a time to tread gently, stay grounded, and to stay present to the moment.

Falling in the highly creative nakshatra of Bharani — the star that symbolises the threshold of death and rebirth — this New Moon offers an opportunity for creative renewal, and inner transformation.

A new chapter of freedom, self-forgiveness, and emotional recovery is ahead, especially by late May.

Ritual:
Create, ground, and centre in your sacred space.
Light a candle.
Place your right hand on your belly, left on your heart. Breathe deeply, centring yourself. Allow your presence to flow in fully into the moment.
Whisper or write the following: “I choose to honour the sacred within. I root into my worth. I trust the path unfolding beneath my feet.”
Anoint yourself with an anointing oil.
Drink water to integrate.
I can create my reality slowly, richly, and on my own terms. My worth is not negotiable. I plant what is real, and I rise in devotion.

Feel into the vitality you experience when the right medicine meets your body.
The deep belonging you feel when you are truly supported.
The quiet strength that rises when you live in harmony with Nature.

Touching the Earth, feeling the gratitude, and the blessings of the Grandmothers

Look to your North Star

Be. Feel. And prosper.

Aho ###

12/02/2025

She’s in between worlds right now.
A part of her is leaving.
But it’s not like before.
She’s holding space this time.
Not sweating it, but breathing beyond her skin.
She’s good.
She’s even shape-shifting.
The raven.
The owl.
She’s unafraid of the bird’s-eye view.
And unlike all those other times, she isn’t scared of the unknown.
She’s present and neither timid nor bold.
It feels beautiful like the song of a blackbird.
And powerful like the rumble of an avalanche.”~

~Tanya Markul

art: Ingrid Tusell