Birch Moon - Resilience and Well Being Centre

18/09/2025

Mantra as Medicine
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18/09/2025

JOIN ME TONIGHT...free session -

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18/09/2025

Tonight...tonight...
Come and find your Light...

Free Mantra as Medicine practice - 6-7pm. Zoom.

Mantra woven into all aspects of the class - Yoga, breathwork, meditation, Nidra...out loud, whispering, silent...

No experience needed - a gentle, simple practice to unwind after your day.

You can still join HERE - https://momence.com/s/122743248

14/09/2025

Free Yoga & Chant THIS Thursday - https://mailchi.mp/d32b657ee88b/free-yoga-chant-this-thursday

TOO MUCH WIND AND RAIN? Stay warm and cosy at home and join me for this lovely yoga & chant class to unwind, release and rest after your busy day. All welcome!

Sanskrit Healing Chant is an important and often overlooked aspect of yoga - Naad Yoga (the yoga of sound), pre-dates the physical asana/postures. So good for stress, anxiety, fatigue issues and emotional/mental wellbeing. Overall physical health is supported and it is known for improving self-confi...

03/09/2025

Just one day to go...come and join me for this Free webinar - exploring the beauty, power and sacredness of Sanskrit Healing Chant. Thursday 4th September 7-8pm.

For all curious minds, yoga students and teachers, and everyone interested in the healing power of sound and the voice.

Reserve your place here - https://momence.com/s/121977122

01/09/2025

✨ Unlock the Power of Sound: Free Vedic Chant Webinar -

For the Curious…those interested in healing through sound and the voice, and those seeking an authentic spiritual practise.

31/08/2025

Why Vedic Chant? Why chant at all?!

Chant has been practised for thousands of years for health, healing, and spiritual connection. Non-religeous, it guides and connects you to your inner wisdom, Truth and True Nature.

Free webinar Thursday 4th September - come and listen, learn, chant. Link in my Bio. 🙏

29/08/2025

September - it has that new term feeling!

I'm excited to be offering a free webinar. WHY VEDIC CHANT? Thursday 4th Sept 7-8pm.

Millions of people around the world chant daily - including here in the UK. Your voice heals, chanting heals, sound heals!

Curious? Click the link in my Bio and join me for an adventure in sound ✨️

28/08/2025

Are you still Summering? - https://mailchi.mp/3016bd28a6d9/are-you-still-summering

YOGA & CHANT THIS Sunday - and reflections on my recent Buddhist retreat

A very warm welcome to new people who have either signed up to this newsletter or joined me at a yoga or chant event in recent weeks. It’s great to connect with you.

14/08/2025

Hi everyone, a very warm welcome to those who have recently started to follow my page, and joined me at one of my mantra and yoga events. LONG POST WARNING! :-)

Here's a peek into my background, my journey with healing chant and yoga, and why I do what I do...

Although I'd dipped a toe with chant in London way back in the 80's (I was presenting at the Mind, Body, Spirit Show and met Jill Purce), it didn't actually make much sense to me at the time.

Fast forward to 1999 and I was led to my main teacher, Dr Patricia Cook of the Open Ear Center, nr Seattle, Washington State. As a family we'd moved there for my husband's job, but little did I realise that this was a life changing opportunity for me. Pat has studied cross-cultural healing chant for over five decades, and travelled extensively studying directly with indigenous healers in her home country of the USA, plus India, Nepal, Tibet, and Indonesia.

I was so lucky to train with her (Cross-cultural healing sound and chant) and completed her Advanced Practitioner training over a 3 year period. We learnt healing chants from the Hindu, Tibetan, Buddhist, Indonesian and Vedic traditions.

For me it was life changing. Like many healers I definitely came under the "wounded healer" label, and chant helped to change the vibration, the energetic pattern of long-held trauma, health issues I'd had some years previously, and shifted my mindset.

Chant and mantra have been alongside me for over 25 years now - through parenting, separation and divorce, struggling with ME/CFS, and during lockdown a diagnosis and surgery for breast cancer. It's been a challenging life (so far!), but mantra is always the first thing I turn to for a sense of comfort, grounding and inspiration.

Resilience has become more of a buzzword in recent years - but when we feel we can do something about our situation (internally if not externally), we feel more in control, that we have choices, and don't fall into a state of victimhood or helplessness. No matter how tough some situations were, I always felt chant would open doors for me (which they did).

Mantras are ancient, and are said to hold sacred vibrations. Used for health, healing and spiritual connection - they are as relevant today as they were thousands of years ago.

There is an art and science to mantra and it is important to me to share my ever-evolving current understanding to those who are curious, hear the call, or feel drawn to this authentic form of sacred healing.

We can't chant what we like...ie the sounds (words), melody and rhythm of the mantras all combine to create that healing resonance. Change something (from the original) without understanding what those changes mean, can lead you to chant gobbledeegook!! :-)

We have fun when we learn to chant. Laugh at our mistakes (and know we are forgiven), enjoy the challenge and MOST IMPORTANTLY can quickly feel how the mind becomes calm, the body soothed, and our outlook improves.

YOGA - I combine holistic yoga (rooted in Hatha) with healing mantra, making the chanting accessible, the asana/postures more meditative and overall our physical, mental and emotional experience of yoga deeper.

This just gives an overview of my journey with chant - there's way more (!), but thanks for reading this far...it will be lovely to connect with you (again) soon.

Watch out for new Vedic chant courses about to be launched, Mantra as Medicine retreat days coming up soon in Devon, and our much loved Sound & Silence retreats are a monthly treat again too.

Any questions? Pop me a message below or DM me!

05/08/2025

When I'm not teaching yoga and chant...art, nature, mixed media. Yoga reveals your true self and helps you to find your voice ...art is no different.