Marie Williams Yoga

16/04/2026

Ended up reflecting on the last 8 years (the ‘career’ edit) and thought I’d take you with me… 💭

Feeling grateful to my teachers & mentors, and all the students who have been part of my evolution over the last 8 years - whether you’re here now or you’ve been and gone when things got whacky along the way 🤪 I love you 🫶

At the start of last year I said I ‘wasn’t going to do any more training’… by the end of the year I had started *another* advanced teacher training and have recently started *another* experiential anatomy course 💁‍♀️

I wonder what the next 8 years will hold…

Recently held a full moon circle and told us that in numerology a ‘1’ year had just begun, meaning a new cycle was starting again - for the next 9 years! So I’ve been feeling reflective on potentially what’s only just the beginning… 🌱❤️

06/04/2026

‘Natural Alignment’ is a principle I work with within somatic movement & yoga facilitation.

It’s rooted in the understanding that the body is self-organising.

Alignment is not a static concept, but a dynamic responsive synergy of relationships within the body, and in relationship to space, ground, and gravity.

When we shift our facilitation or practice to one of embodied awareness, alignment begins to emerge rather than being imposed - movement becomes more efficient, more integrated, and more alive.

Your body is a living expression of life itself.

🧠 What do you think? How does natural alignment show up in your own facilitation or awareness practice?

These are some concepts we’ll be exploring in my Embodied Anatomy workshop this weekend:
Part 1 - The Container
Anatomy as lived architecture; the structures that hold, support, and shape us.
• Bones • Muscles • Connective Tissue

*last couple of spaces left*
https://www.mariewilliamsyoga.com/workshops

02/04/2026

Final few spaces left for next weekend’s workshop at Happy Om Yoga Studio ~>
A 2 part series of Embodied Anatomy explorations for yoga teachers, curious students & embodied movers 🫀🌀

Experience anatomy not as information to learn, but as innate intelligence available and accessible to listen to. As a living conversation, rather than a fixed map.

An embodied, explorative approach through movement, imagery, touch, and felt-sense perception and presence.

These workshops are less about ‘learning more’ and more about remembering how to listen 👂

Each workshop can be taken individually, though together they offer a richer, more integrated experience of the body as both form and living process.

Lunch included! We will end our morning of movement with a delicious & nutritious lunch bowl from Vicky's Kitchen 🥙

More info & booking here:
https://www.mariewilliamsyoga.com/workshops

01/04/2026

A room has just become available on my fully-booked Scotland retreat this May!

Join me in the Scottish Highlands for a 4 night retreat 18-22nd of May. Daily somatic yoga practices in our woodland tipi, plenty of outdoor time soaking up the forest an taking in the incredible views of the Cairngorm mountains ⛰️ Delicious food and amazing company to enjoy it all with - what more could you want? 🥰

One private en-suite cottage now available.

More info here: https://www.mariewilliamsyoga.com/yoga-retreat-scotland

26/03/2026

Final few spaces left for this month’s Shake the Dust class at Happy Om Yoga Studio - moving with the transition into Spring 🍃🌸

This Saturday 28th March, 9.30-11AM

https://www.mariewilliamsyoga.com/book-a-class

01/03/2026

Awareness, Śiva, is the entire existence of everything. In any given moment, we can choose to notice, or not notice🪞

Like right now, our breath is breathing us… 🫁 life is always moving through. We can notice, or not.

There’s nothing ‘bad’ about not noticing - and we’re not ‘getting it wrong’ when we don’t.

‘Sometimes awareness vibrates predominantly as awareness, sometimes awareness vibrates predominantly as contraction. It’s just a sliding scale of predominance.’ Some lovely resonant words from 🫶

To remember, to be in recognition - this is the practice 🌀

We practice to build our capacity to move into relationship with ourselves, with life itself; to know when we know, to become aware when we’re aware.

Our real nature is never not present. Sometimes we just need help recognising it 🌺

I always return to Śiva when life gets a lot and I need orientation towards recognition, towards the quiet ground beneath it all ❤️

Love this Shiva Shambo melody, also shared from the wonderful 🎶

28/02/2026