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I curate & hold space for all kinds of meaningful experiences…

From hen party’s, birthday celebrations, workplace wellness, ladies getaways to collab events.
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Always meeting you & your party exactly where you are 🫶🏼

05/03/2026

Turns out feeling rich has less to do with money and more to do with doing whatever I want with my life.

No rulebook.
No timeline.
No one asking when I’m going to ‘settle down.’

Just me… travelling around running yoga experiences for wonderful groups of friends/family who mostly say things like:

“I’m not flexible.”
“Is this going to be hard?”
“Wait… do we keep our socks on?”

And honestly? I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Hen parties.
Birthdays.
Girls’ weekends.
Workplace wellbeing days.

A space full of women laughing, moving a bit, relaxing a bit and realising yoga doesn’t have to be serious to feel good.

Turns out choosing your own life can look like teaching yoga in living rooms, gardens, beaches and Airbnbs with brilliant groups of women.

And I’m definitely not wasting that privilege ✨

If you’re organising a hen, birthday or group weekend and want something relaxed and genuinely fun for everyone…you know where I am…

Book a chat today 📞 …DM me 💌

03/03/2026

Organising the hen party always sounds fun…
until you’re suddenly the project manager of 12 opinions and a very loud group chat.

I genuinely love these bookings because they’re never about ‘perfect yoga.’

They’re about creating a moment where everyone can land, laugh, breathe, move a little and feel good.

No experience needed.
No flexibility required.
No pressure to be zen.

Just something that feels good for your group.

If you’re in charge of planning and want it to feel easy, let’s chat 🤍

28/02/2026

48 hours ago, I was waiting to hear back about a job.

On paper? It made sense.
But in my body? It didn’t.

And I’ve learned something recently, if it’s not a full body yes, it’s a no.

One hour after that door closed, a new event opportunity landed.

Aligned. Exciting. Expansive.

Yesterday I was doing work that lights me up.
Next week, I’m travelling for another event.

This is why I choose this path.

✨ Freedom
✨ Travel
✨ Energy
✨ Fun while earning

Event work makes me feel alive. The people, the atmosphere, the connection - it never feels heavy.

Alignment isn’t loud.
It’s calm. Clear. Certain.

Have you ever had a “no” turn into something better? 💫

Planning a hen party, friends’ getaway or special celebration?

Bring yoga to your celebration and turn it into something truly memorable.

I travel to your location and create a session tailored to your group, your vibe and the energy you want to feel, whether that’s relaxed and grounding or fun and uplifting.

Let’s make your celebration unforgettable ✨🧘🏼‍♀️

25/02/2026

Somewhere along the way, we started designing our entire lives around our jobs.

We choose where to live based on commute time.
We book holidays based on approval.
We ration our energy like it belongs to a company calendar.

We plan our time, our peace, even our personalities around a title.

And then we call that ‘stability.’

But… it’s a little backwards, isn’t it?

Your career was never meant to be the main character.
It was supposed to be the supporting role.

Instead, we’re out here saving our real personality for annual leave.
Counting down to two ‘allowed’ weeks of freedom like it’s a reward for good behaviour.

The job was meant to support the life.
Not become the life.

The dream.
The flexibility.
The peace.
The version of success that actually feels good in your body, not just impressive on LinkedIn.

Design the life first.
Then build work that fits into it.

Get clear on what you actually want your life to feel like.
And start taking small, aligned steps toward that.

Because you shouldn’t have to wait for annual leave to feel like yourself. ✨

23/02/2026

If you died today, your job would be advertised tomorrow and filled in a few weeks.

Take your holidays.
Take your sick days.
Log off when your workday ends.

Deactivate the notifications.
The emails will still be there in the morning.
No one is handing out trophies for burnout.

Put yourself first.
Because most workplaces won’t.

If your job is draining you, read this 👇🏻

You are not broken.
And you are not lazy.

You’ve just been operating in survival mode for so long that exhaustion started to feel normal.
Running on caffeine and calendar reminders.
Calling it ‘just a busy season’ for the third year in a row.

Burnout doesn’t only make you tired.
It disconnects you from your confidence.
Your clarity.
Your sense of direction.

That’s why decisions feel heavier lately.
Why replying to one email feels like a mountain.
Why even small choices, what to prioritise, what to say, whether to speak up suddenly feel overwhelming.

Nothing is wrong with you.

You’ve just been pouring energy into a role
that isn’t pouring back into you.

You are allowed to want work that supports your life.
Your nervous system.
Your peace.

And you don’t need to collapse to earn the right to choose differently ✨

22/02/2026

If you recognised yourself in more than a few of these slides…
it’s not “just stress.”
And it’s not weakness.

It’s your nervous system asking for safety.
Your body asking to slow down.

You were never meant to live in constant survival mode.

Strength isn’t pushing through everything.
Strength is knowing when to pause.

Your body doesn’t lie.
And you don’t have to keep pretending you’re fine ✨

If your body has been asking you to slow down,
I hold a gentle space for nervous system care.

Restful Yin
Wednesdays | 7:30pm

Spring Equinox Mini Retreat🌸ONE SPACE LEFT
Sunday 22nd March | 1pm–4pm

Rooted Beginnings
Sunday 19th April | 1pm–4pm

Women only. Safe. Slow. Supportive. 🤍
🪴 Studio17,

💌 DM to secure your space

17/02/2026

I am meeting my old personal trainer today, a wonderful lady that became my friend.

On the day we welcome the fire horse energy…bold, untamed, forward moving.
And under the Aquarius new moon, the sign of reinvention, courage and doing life differently.

I can’t ignore the symbolism.

When I first signed up with Charlotte, I was exhausted.
Stressed beyond measure.
Pushing through a career that was slowly burning me out even though I didn’t have the language for it at the time.

I just thought that was life.

One day into my journey with her, she said,
‘Why don’t you qualify as a PT?’
…I remember this as clear as anything.

I laughed, I said no.

But something shifted.

That one sentence lit a spark in me that I couldn’t ignore.

Six months later I was spending every weekend on a PT course, still working my old job Monday to Friday, running on fumes but fuelled by something new - belief.

Not long after, I handed in my notice.
Built my PT business from scratch.
Then a few years later immersed myself in training to become a yoga teacher.

And here I am.

Looking forward to a very overdue catch up with the woman who unknowingly reminded me of my power.

She didn’t rescue me.
She didn’t save me.
She simply reflected something back to me that I couldn’t yet see in myself.

And I chose to act on it.

I still go to the gym.
I still train.
I still build strength - physically and mentally.

But the real strength was choosing to change my life.

Never underestimate the power of one conversation.
And never underestimate the power already inside you.

🔥🐴✨

15/02/2026

✨ Rooted Beginnings ✨

Offered on Akshaya Tritiya, a day connected with new beginnings and lasting abundance, this supportive afternoon is for tired nervous systems…a chance to slow down while gently reconnecting with forward movement.

A pause.
A rooting.
Space to focus on what you’re ready to build, without rushing.

🗓 Sunday 19th April
🕐 1pm - 4pm
💷 £35

Includes:
🔅Gentle breathwork
🔅Symbolic journalling
🔅Stretch & Flow
🔅Yin yoga
🔅Guided intention setting
🔅Yoga Nidra

Light refreshments & space for connection 🤍

💌 Message me to book or nfrancisyoga@gmail.com

Would love to have you with us ✨

12/02/2026

Am I where I should be?
Have I done enough?

Why does everyone else look like they’ve got a mortgage, a perfect relationship, a five year plan and a vision board that’s actually working?

Meanwhile you’re just trying to remember if you replied to that email.

It makes you panic about everything you haven’t done yet.
It turns your life into a colour coded Google Calendar you feel permanently behind on.

And social media?
It’ll have you believing everyone else is ahead.
More settled.
More successful.
More certain.

But here’s the bit no one really tells you.

As you get older, something shifts.

You care less about whether people are impressed by you and more about whether you actually like who you are when you’re on your own.

You stop doing things because they sound good and start doing them because they feel right.

You notice how drained you feel around certain people and you quietly stop chasing them.
You notice how calm you feel when you say no you start saying it more.

You realise you don’t have to earn your place in the world by being smaller, quieter or easier.

You’re allowed to take up space.
You’re allowed to have opinions.
You’re allowed to live a life that makes sense to you even if it looks nothing like what you imagined at 25.

Getting older isn’t about suddenly having it all figured out.

It’s about dropping the performance.

It’s the shift from:
Do they like me?
to
Do I like me?

And once that clicks, everything changes.

So if you’re freaking out about turning whatever age comes next…breathe.

You’re not running out of time.
You’re shedding the version of you that thought she had to rush.

You’re getting closer to the version of you
who stops twisting herself to fit someone else’s idea of success.

Ageing isn’t the beginning of the end.
It’s the beginning of living for yourself.

Social media will have you fearing getting older… but honestly?

Twenties ~ survived.
Thirties ~ unravelled and rebuilt.
Forties ~ living it.

And it feels fabulous.

Get out there & create your best year yet 🔥🐴✨

10/02/2026

Come for the stretch.
Stay for the nervous system reset.

Every Wednesday
Restful Yin | 7:30pm
🌙 A slow, soothing practice of long-held poses, quiet stillness, and deep rest… an easeful way to soften into your evening.

This Wednesday
Yoga Nidra | 8:45pm
🌙 A guided yogic sleep practice to deeply calm your nervous system, release mental and physical tension and drop you into profound rest. No movement…just lie down, get cosy and be guided into a deeply nourishing state between wakefulness and sleep.

🧘🏼‍♀️ Ladies only
🪴 Studio17, Heaton Chapel

💌 DM to secure your space

09/02/2026

✨ Rooted Beginnings ✨

My last event at the garden studio until autumn, as my spring/summer diary is full with private event bookings 🌿

Offered on Akshaya Tritiya, a day connected with new beginnings and lasting abundance, this supportive afternoon is for tired nervous systems…a chance to slow down while gently reconnecting with forward movement.

A pause.
A rooting.
Space to focus on what you’re ready to build, without rushing.

🗓 Sunday 19th April
🕐 3pm - 6pm
💷 £35

Includes:
🔅Gentle breathwork
🔅Symbolic journalling
🔅Slow, steady fire flow
🔅Yin yoga
🔅Guided intention setting
🔅Yoga Nidra

Light refreshments & space for connection 🤍

💌 Message me to book or nfrancisyoga@gmail.com

Would love to have you with us ✨

05/02/2026

✨LAST 3 SPACES✨

If things have felt a little full lately, this is a gentle reminder that you’re allowed to pause 🌿

Details in the slides 🤍

🧘🏼‍♀️Ladies only 📍Studio17, Heaton Chapel

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