Yoga with Suzanne

10/10/2025

& all the bits along the way

Remember there's always peace within the imperfections....

Embrace your experience
Peace by peace

🕉️

Today is World Mental Health Day and I would love to take a moment to remind everyone that your perfect is not needed here.

It’s in the breaks of this life that we grow into our true selves and every time you share that with another, you are spreading not just hope but power.

Do not fall for the hype my friends, you are not on this planet to plod perfectly every day.

You are here to feel. And you are here to love. And you are here to grow. And you should very much feel broken sometimes, if you are doing all of those things.

Love to you all.

We do good work here and you are very much a part of that web of sharing.

Donna x

(And this isn’t grammatically incorrect, this page always confuses people 😘😘)

This poem is in Joy Chose You :

https://amzn.eu/d/adtkTz0

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14/09/2025

https://allpoetry.com/Only-Breath

This past week, our practices have invited us to gently open into the body as we transition through late summer to autumn, stimulating gut health too.

Our breath enquiry and meditation completed with this poem - selected for its link to the practice.

Yet today, c.800years after the poem was written, the words seems ever more relevant.

I hope it resonates well with you too. In Yoga,

OMs, Suzanne x

Only Breath by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
With thanks to the allpoetry.com website for featuring this, and to the translations of Coleman Barks.

21/08/2025

Thanks Ruth Nichol for sharing this post ...

A clear description of the essence of yoga,
a meditation deep within,
beyond all the practices themselves,

The journey back to the Bliss we carry within us, always 🙏🏼

🦋

22/06/2025

Yep! That's me too x

21/06/2025

Yoga to Cool and Soothe

Indoors, Outdoors,

Seated, Standing, Supine

You might like to try some of the practices shown below,
whilst shaded from the current hot hot hot weather

Have you a favoured yoga practice to Cool and Soothe?

"Legs up the Wall"
( or Chair - or Tree in one of my favourites adaptations ! )
features in all my classes this week 🌴

19/06/2025

Cool, Calm & Contented

That's the way we do it!

Make peace with life as we find it,
Surrender to it.

And as we approach the Summer Solstice
with a heatwave too,
Invite cooling practices and spaces within

Let's Lift our Spirits to the Sun
as it reaches to its peak,
from cool, shaded spaces

(& don't forget the sunscreen ...)
🎶

Also reflecting words from Baz Luhrmann's
"Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" -
you may recognise some of the following invitations we yogis offer

🪇 " Look after your knees "

🎵"Stretch [gently] "

🥁 " Don't worry about the future "

🎸 don't worry about the past

🪈" Enjoy [& honour] your body ..... "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfq_A8nXMsQ&t=3s

11/06/2025

"... you are not the pose ..."

Gorgeous x

08/06/2025

Always, ...

https://www.facebook.com/share/19G92CZQEf/

07/06/2025

Sunday morning yoga last weekend, we ventured outdoors for a Mindful Stroll, with the excited Pippa and her buggy! 🐾🐾

We enjoyed a mostly Silent, Mindful Stroll amongst nature with moments of conversation, sharing light & love with others passing by
🚶🏿🚶🏼‍♀🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏼‍🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏻👥🐇🪺🦆🕊🦅🪶🪱🕷🦋🐞🐛🐜

Thanks for leading us along peaceful pathways, Nicole.

Tomorrow morning, yoga will return to our indoor Northallerton venue

04/06/2025

🌻

For any parent of an anxious child, I am here…

“We can’t fix one another’s path in life, but we can light them. One honest share at a time…”

Before my son’s diagnosis,
life felt like walking a tightrope in a hurricane.
Each day, I braced for the school’s call—
another incident, another heartbreak.

He was overwhelmed.
I was crumbling.
And the guilt of not knowing how to help him
gnawed at my soul.

I searched endlessly—
for books, tools,
gentle ways to teach empathy, courage, calm.
Anything to reach him
without triggering defence or despair.

We were floundering.
And when the diagnosis finally came,
it felt less like an answer,
and more like a bomb dropped into our lives.

How do you detonate something
so powerful,
so life-altering,
safely?

But we did.
Bit by bit.
With love. With patience. With understanding.

And now—
life is beautiful.
Not perfect,
but real,
and strong,
and filled with light.

So I created what I desperately needed
when he was 7 to 11.

Not just a book for him—
but for other children too.
His classmates, his friends.
The ones who needed help understanding him,
so they could accept him.

Because children are incredible,
but if we don’t give them the information,
how can they find the ways?

This book is a gentle spark.
A page a day.
A safe way in.
To conversations that matter.

It’s for every child—
navigating change,
loss, friendship, fear,
big emotions and brave hearts.

Two days until launch.
Order today and it’s in your hands Thursday.

With every copy sent,
my gratitude comes with, you’ll literally feel it when you open the cover. 🤩🙏🏻

Donna

x

04/06/2025

Wonderful Ways through yoga 🙏🏽

Emma Nicholson received a community award for helping improve the mental well-being of boys in prison.

03/05/2025

Taking time every day to experience how you're held by the Earth

One leg, Two feet, Four paws or more - Be still, stable and secure.

We're continuing to explore our connection to the Earth element in the week ahead.

In the past week, have you noticed how the Earth element :-

- Helps to keep you grounded
(especially through the recent May Day transition,
spring's mid-point of 'Beltane')

- Offers a place of safety - and beauty - to rest and restore

- Feeds your inner and outer worlds

- Allows nature, souls and spirits all around to grow

What, if anything, has arisen for you this week, that you're grateful to the Earth element for?

Reflections welcome, in person and online, as you continue to
"Kiss the Earth with your foot" (Thich Nhat Hanh)
thankful and free
as we journey through the week ahead.