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Explore your body with slow flow yoga, restorative and menopause classes, workshops and retreats.

Yoga Therapist in training.

15/11/2025

“The practice of yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.” Sri Aurobindo

Yoga invites us to explore these layers with compassion rather than judgment, on and off the mat.

To witness our inner world with curiosity and yoga therapy is a beautiful practice in which to do this. We can honour the gentle, intricate complexity that makes us who we are.

In this soft noticing, healing begins. 💛 I’d love to hear from you if you feel this therapeutic experience is for you x

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12/11/2025

So….. feeling like a right old 🍌putting this up, but hey-ho! A life lesson in not taking myself too seriously.

However, the ‘serious’ note behind it is the importance of taking time to FEEL into your body, how do you actually FEEL? Physically and emotionally?

Can you take 2 minutes to experience a smile (even at my expense), invigoration and a sense of wellbeing?

The breath of joy can be energising for the body and nervous system, fabulous if you, like me, are feeling a little sluggish or glum. This practice circulates your prana (energy) and stokes your internal fire (agni).

*Please avoid if you have high blood pressure or if you suffer from any kind of head or eye injury, like migraines or glaucoma.*

Let me know how you get on and an eclectic mix of clothing is optional!😉

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11/11/2025

I offer you a metta prayer of loving kindness:

May I be happy. May I be well. May I be safe. May I be peaceful and at ease.

May you be happy. May you be well. May you be safe. May you be peaceful and at ease.

May all beings be happy. May all beings be well. May all beings be safe. May all beings be peaceful and at ease.

Metta is first practiced toward ourselves, as it’s often difficult to truly love others if we struggle to offer that same kindness inward.

In a loving-kindness meditation, we begin by connecting to the intention of wishing ourselves or others happiness.

There’s no need to force emotion or sentiment, just rest in the simple wish.

If feelings of warmth, tenderness, or love begin to arise in the body or mind, gently connect to them. Let them expand, soften, and flow — a quiet reminder that compassion begins within. 🌿

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09/11/2025

🌿 What is Yoga Therapy?

Yoga therapy uses the elements of yoga; movement, breath, relaxation and mindfulness, to support healing and wellbeing. It can also sit alongside other therapeutic modalities that you might be using.

✨ I can’t do yoga!

Unlike a general yoga class, yoga therapy is personalised: together, we explore your unique needs, experiences and goals. This might include gentle movement to ease pain or tension, breathwork to calm the nervous system, or guided relaxation to help manage stress, anxiety or emotional overwhelm. No pretzel shapes!

🌿 How can it help me?

The Healing Mat offers a safe, compassionate space for you to explore self-healing at your own pace. A chance to enquire and connect to your own body’s wisdom.

✨Curious?

Pleae get in touch to find out how this gentle therapy can support you and the start of your recovery. 💛

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06/11/2025

“The power of the heart is to be connected with who you are at the deepest level.” ~ Eckhart TOLLE

When we pause long enough to listen, we can hear the quiet wisdom that lives beneath the noise of daily life.
The softness of our breath, the stillness between movements and the quiet space we create for ourselves.

Yoga helps us return to that place.
To the heart.
To who we truly are. 💛

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04/11/2025

When we bring our hands together in the sacred gesture of ‘anjali mudra’ and our fingers touch, it is believed to bring balance to the five elements (fire, air, space, earth and water) within our body.

When in balance we can experience physical, mental and emotional harmony; an opportunity for increased spiritual presence.

By bringing an inward focus to our heart centre, this humble gesture can encourage peace within our hearts and souls.

How do you bring a sense of balance to your life? What do you notice when you gently draw your hands together?

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03/11/2025

“Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.” ~ Lao Tzu

The healing power of stillness and silence, understanding that we are not separate from nature but park of its rich circle of life. Being able to value nature as a teacher and the interconnection between the natural world and all beings, we are one. What we do affects and effects our environment and each other, our actions, our words and our thoughts.

Notice where your energy is directed and the intention behind it.

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27/10/2025

Can you hear the earth?

Connecting with nature and engaging with all your senses, tune into the precious gifts it has to offer.

Our busy lives mean we are often disconnected to the earth and to her natural cycles. The natural rhythms remind us to stay in tune with our needs for activity and rest throughout the seasons.

When we’re in nature we:

🍁Can lower our stress responses by reducing cortisol

🍂Reduce our blood pressure.

🍁Increase our feelings of happiness by releasing endorphins and serotonin.

🍂Support our immune systems with the exposure to sunlight.

Win! Win!

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24/10/2025

It’s easy to appreciate the brilliant colours of autumn and crispness in the air. It is harder to enthuse over the soggy leaves, plants dying back and encroaching darkness.

This ‘composting’ phase of the year is an essential part of the cycle of life, providing the nutrients and necessary elements for new growth and colour in the Spring. We can reflect on our own relationship with the cycles of the year, our own aging process and the attachment we have to grasping and resisting the letting go. I have a fluctuating relationship with aging; sometimes I can completely embrace it and other times, look in the mirror surprised by the reflection!

Like the rotting leaves, we need periods of dormancy and softening to recalibrate, plan and consider our growth, to bloom and radiate in the Spring.

The lotus cannot flower without being rooted in mud and their partnership is intertwined.

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Thank you to Yoga through the Year- Jilly Shipway for the inspiration this week.

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16/10/2025

Healing is most powerful when we include the body in the process and feel, really feel.

Yoga therapy integrates movement, breath and awareness to reconnect mind, body and your true knowing.

We can tune back into the stories the body has to tell, rather than what we have been conditioned to receive, or what we have been told is ‘wrong with us’.

Yoga therapy can support your process towards improved health and well-being.

You also DON’T need to be able to ‘DO’ yoga to access yoga therapy!

Thank you to my lovely case study .moule1

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Please do get in touch if you’re curious about yoga therapy and how it can support your healing journey.

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20/07/2025

Alone one may begin the journey, but together the path deepens and transforms.

Eknath Easwaran

This beautiful quote was shared this morning by a lovely soul. It seemed so poignant this afternoon connecting deeply as a group, finding peace and serenity through gentle practice and rest.

Through all of this, remaining ever conscious of the deepening crisis and how grateful I am that we can come together in freedom and peace.

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