Ruby Colley Yoga

26/06/2023

Goodbye blessings! x 💫💖

This Thursday 6.30pm will be my last class and it will be held at the Victoria Hotel, Burton suite.

It'd be lovely to see you if you can make it!
I'll be leading a playful vinyasa to bring us towards the summer break.

If I don't see you, sending you all blessings and thanks for your pressence in class,
Ruby x

21/06/2023

Happy summer solstice.. from a meadow on my favourite hill. Felt like Heidi. Listened to the wee beasties in the long grasses, birds overhead as I did my own little solstice meditation.. leaving space for the new seeds to grow.. 🌞🌾

13/06/2023

This weeks class & important news x

Good morning everyone, I hope you had a wonderful sunny weekend!

I am writing with some news..
After much soul searching, I have made the descision to step back from teaching for a while.
This is due to a number of factors, including my other line of work (Music) is demanding more of my time & energy, as well as class numbers being very quiet for a while now. This has meant it's become increasingly difficult to run due to costs.

This hasn't been an easy decision to make… 💔
I have been so so grateful for every single person who has shared their practice with me over the past 9 years, the passers through, regulars & dear souls who continued through covid & beyond with all it's madness.... THANK YOU x ❤️🕉️🙏🏼
However, sometimes, the universe tells you that it's time. 🪐✨

Classes will continue to the end of June.
15th - Azur - Coral & Bistro room!
22nd - Azur
29th - Azur

I hope to see some of you before I go, and if you'd like to see what I'm up to in music land, you can follow me .

Sending much love & blessings,
Ruby xx

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05/06/2023

Wild & playful 💚🌾🌼🪻🌱

I have been spending most of my time in the garden of late, which has been joyous & nourishing. Cultivating areas of wildness, along with the planted areas have created a beautiful, tall landscape of colour.
Nothing in life needs to be tightly controlled and nature is always riminidng us that if we let it do it's thing, it'll show us how to let go a bit too. I thought it would be lovely to cultivate a bit of lightness and play in our class this week. Letting go of our expectations & allowing in a bit of wildness in to the flow. Play is so easily lost in adulthood with all our responsabilities, so this will be be our permission to tap back into a space of exploration without agenda!

This Thursday we will be at the Victoria Hotel due to an event at Azur.
See you there!
Ruby xx

09/05/2023

Thoughts on practice x

Good morning yogis,

I hope this finds you well.
I've been thinking on practice lately and my tendancy to avoid it. (Yes even yoga teachers can do this!) Practice avoidance can come in many forms and I think for me, it's something I'll always have to work with as being part of 'my way'. Sometimes, it shows up more than others and part of this obvervation is to ask myself what I'm avoiding! The practice continues....

So this week, I thought it'd be pertinant to explore how we can show up even in the smallest of ways for ourselves and recognising this as part of the practice. It is ever evolving and there is no destinantion. I am still learning after practicing for 13 years. Journeys will have peaks and troughs, and our ability to observe and trust this process is key.

Showing up and allowing for the variation within can bring some truly wonderful moments in yoga, where we can be, move and simply enjoy the ride.
Ruby xx
Thanks to for this pensive shot ❤️📸

22/03/2023

Flowers - conduit between Earth & Sky

Good morning friends,
I hope this finds you well. After the Spring equinox on Tuesday, we are now officially in spring! This has felt like quite a relief. I have so enjoyed watching all the spring flowers emerge from their wintery beds this week. As well as this, last night was the New Moon, bringing another transition into our week, adding to the sense of new beginings with the Spring energy.

Reaching for this new awakened surge of energy, I've been musing on how flowers are often such a symbol of reslience and hope at this time and how, despite being rooted to the Earth, reach with all their might towards the Sun. Staying grounded yet, reaching, and striving with the optimism of a child.
This thursdays class will work with finding balance with the Earth & Sky, as we invite grounding with lightness and playfullness that comes with spring. This translates to back bends, bandhas for stability, leg stregthening and balance postures. Rooting to rise with each flow of breath.
I look forward to seeing you this Thusday,
Ruby xx

Please note, this Thusrday 6.30pm, we are at The Victoria Hotel, Burton Suit!

02/03/2023

Great news regarding our classes at Azur! We live to flow another day 😃🙏

For all of you following the current plight of Azur and St Leonard’s studio we are happy to say we survive another day. The result of the court hearing Wednesday leaves our classes safe for now though the case continues. Thankyou to all who wrote to show your support for us to the council and Seachange. Let’s keep up the efforts to show how much we need this community space and continue coming to class as usual. 🙏❤️

14/02/2023

My goodness this spring energy is feeling very yummy indeed.. 💐🌞💚

Along with the suns rising energy, valentines day can be an opportunity to think about what it means to us.. which can be many things! I don't often fall in line with the commercial preassures of it these days, but I do enjoy being reminded of the Heart space (Anahata Chakra) and how working with it can open us up after a long period of hibernation of winter, which can leave us feeling stuck and or 'closed'.
In Sanskrit, “anahata” means unhurt, unstuck and unbeaten. This can enable connection and expansion to others and our true selves.

So this Thursday will be a yummy practice to work with the expanding energy of Spring 🌷and the Heart💚. This will hopefully give us a bit of lightness in our spirits to carry into the weekend. 💚

Blessings,
Ruby xx

02/02/2023

“May the stirring of life underground,
stir new dreams into life within you.
May the flames of inspiration and new growth
be ignited within your Being.”

~ Imbolc Blessing 🌿🔥

Happy imbolc to one & all! This translates to “in the belly”…

I don’t know about you, but I was definitely feeling the January blues this past week or two. Even with the awareness of these cycles in our seasons, work patterns etc, I still struggled to muster energy! The lack of light really does have a culmative effect on ones internal batteries..
So now that the sun is shining and I can feel a little more warmth in air, it has done a wonderful job in reminding me that Spring is in the post! I feel the seed in the belly stirring 🌱🌞
With this in mind, our class this week will have some lightness and humour (hopefully!) to see us through the last of the winter months.
I look forward to seeing you on the mat,
Ruby xx 📸

12/01/2023

Important information about classes at Azur! Please read full post from St Leonards Studio x

Azur winter hours mean you may find the top doors closed. But our classes ARE on as usual. Please go to the beachfront doors or evenings and if the shutters are closed your teacher will meet you at the West side doors. #2023

02/01/2023

Good morning dear friends and Happy New Year to you!
I hope you had a restful break over the holiday season.

As our minds turn to New Years resolutions at this time of year, but nature is telling us it's still a time for contemplation and rest. However, the reality of our lives and their structure, means that we're being called to 'get going' now that the holiday season is over.
So what to do?
In terms of 'detoxifying' we can start gently introducing some dynamic elements in class to match the lives we live, whilst making sure to balance it out with plenty of grounding and fluidity to keep us nourished for the remainder of Winter, and maintain some presence & vitality.

Classes return this Thursday 6.30pm at AZUR. I can't wait to see you all!
Ruby xx

28/11/2022

Hello dears, how are you all?
Just a short one to let you all know that for the next 3 weeks, classes will be held at the Victoria Hotel (accross the road from Azur) due to xmas events taking place at the Azur.

I also wanted to acknowledge that times are tough financially for many, and to remind you that concessions are available for those who need it.
Please feel free to message me x
Ruby xx

Thursday 6.30pm