Choose You - yoga studio and wellness hub

05/10/2025

Sunrise Yoga on Playa Flamenca Beach. Found my tribe. 🕉️✨

03/10/2025

In ode to Miss Taylor Swift and her new album I want to talk about one of my favourite lyrics and how it can be related to your nervous system 🤓

I love it when my two favourite worlds collide.

The lyric is from a song on her last album. The song being “I Hate It Here” Absolute mood given the current political climate. Anyway… I digress.

So let’s break down the idea that comfort is a construct and see how it relates to your physical and mental wellbeing.

The physical reality is that comfort is way more than a social construct. Our nervous systems are hard wired to avoid pain, seek shelter, warmth, food and physical ease. Safety is a primal instinct that will always be our body’s top priority.

Psychologically and socially comfort is shaped by culture, conditioning, memory and personal preferences. Your ultimate chicken soup recipe will probably differ from your neighbours, just as your idea of a cozy night in will be different.

When it comes to trauma and the nervous system, what we have been trained into thinking of as a comfort or as something from home, may be something that is damaging to us. Our environment, conditioning and understanding of shared meaning are crucial to this, as is emotional comfort. Emotional comfort can come from certain words and rituals designed to soothe.

Nervous system regulation gives us a foundation to build our own ideals of comfort on top of. We can create a sense of home within our bodies.

In short, comfort is both physiology and a social construct. Think of the biology part as a mighty tree and the constructed layers are a treehouse built on top of it for true shelter and safety.

I am teaching breath work and Somatics this Sunday evening! It would be lovely to have some of you in the studio with working on your own sense of cozy-comfort 🤗

You can book through the link below 👇

https://sirensomatics.as.me/schedule.php

03/10/2025

🪑🌿 Chair Yoga – Gentle Movement for Everyone 🌿🪑

Come along and join us Wednesdays between 2–3 PM!
✨ A welcoming, supportive class perfect for all abilities – stretch, relax, and boost your wellbeing from the comfort of a chair.

💷 Prices:
• £26 for a block of 4 sessions
• £7.50 per individual class

No floor work required – just simple, accessible movements to ease the body and calm the mind.

🌸 Take time for yourself – feel stronger, more flexible, and deeply relaxed.

01/10/2025

Had a great afternoon teaching chair yoga at 2-3pm today. The feedback was that they felt a lot more flexible and energised after practice. One member commented that she felt her brain fog had lifted. Some spaces left. Book your space now. Contact me on the details below…. Feeling very grateful to be doing this job that I love ❤️… 🙏🥰🪑🧘‍♀️🌻

01/10/2025

Pause, Breathe….PROCESS
This is what breath work allows us to do, it gives us those minutes and space to process. How often do you find the time to really do that?

Your sh*tty work day.
The car that almost caused you to have an accident.
The kids making noise.
An unexpected bill that leaves you short for the month.
An argument with your spouse.
Taking care of a sick parent.

These are all stressors that your body, mind and spirit are having to cope with.
Breath work gives you the time and space to process that stress. This class is designed to give you compassionate connection to your emotional body so that you can gently process life.

I am teaching this Sunday evening at Choose You Yoga Studio 😮‍💨
Sunday 5th October
7pm
Choose You Livingston

You can book the class by following the link and selecting Sundays at Choose You.

If you don't gift yourself some time to process the stress then the stress will process YOU. I'll say it again for good measure....PROCESS. If you want a fancier word... ✨ALCHEMISE✨

https://sirensomatics.as.me/schedule.php

01/10/2025

This lady is an absolute powerhouse. Put this super impressive resource together while she was pregnant herself. And only recently consolidated all her offerings around pregnancy and beyond into motherhood. Now invited to the House of Lords to receive her accolade and award. The sky is the limit for this one. Well done Meghan!!! 👏👏👏👏👏

Meghans post natal classes are Tuesday daytime and ante natal are Tuesday evening. Contact her directly for more information or to book.

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29/09/2025

New chair yoga class Wednesday 2-3pm starting on the 1st of October. Contact me for a space on 07763885654 or DMYoga By Serena

28/09/2025

A week to go until it’s breath work class time 🥰😮‍💨

This month the theme is FREEZE so let’s dive into what a freeze response is and how the class will help ❤️‍🩹

Physical signs:
* Feeling paralyzed or unable to move/take action
* Shallow or held breath (almost like you're holding your breath)
* Muscle tension or rigidity
* Cold hands/feet, numbness, or tingling
Slowed heart rate (sometimes racing at first, then dropping)
* Blank stare or "zoning out"
* Feeling disconnected from your body (dissociation)

Emotional/mental signs:
* Feeling "stuck," helpless, or powerless
* Difficulty speaking or forming words
* Sense of detachment or disconnection from surroundings
* Numbness rather than panic or fear
* Brain fog, difficulty making decisions
* Time distortion (feeling like things are moving in slow motion.
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* It's basically your system putting on the “brakes" to survive when it senses danger but can't escape or fight.

The class itself will be very gentle, we aren’t looking for any massive break throughs or to push too far out of the comfort zone. Just a gentle coming home, back into the body, with a softer mouth breath that will be optional. It’s more about feeling soothed, present and most importantly…safe.

Sunday 5th October
7pm
Choose You Yoga Studio

Book here ⬇️⬇️

https://sirensomatics.as.me/schedule.php

27/09/2025

A wee facelift for the studio today. I think it suits soft peach. 🍑 The light was fading by the time we finished.