Yoga with Suzanne

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.

27/04/2025

More of our Earthly wonders at yoga this week,
as we approach the liminal period of May Day, Beltane.. and ensuing Growth

26/04/2025

The beauty of silence xx

We often search for answers outside of ourselves — in achievements, in validation, in constant motion. But the deepest guidance comes not from the world, but from within.

Solitude is not loneliness — it is a sacred space where you return to your essence.
In that stillness, distractions fall away.
In that silence, clarity arises.
And in that connection, the soul speaks.

It doesn’t shout. It whispers.

If your soul could speak one sentence to you right now, what would it say?

02/02/2025

I wonder if Charlie Chaplin was a yogi too? His words resonate throughout eternity x

Charlie Chaplin lived 88 years and left us with four profound statements:

1. Nothing is forever in this world, not even our problems.

2. I love walking in the rain because no one can see my tears.

3. The most lost day in life is the day we don't laugh.

4. Six best doctors in the world:

• The sun

• Rest

• Exercise

• Diet

• Self-respect

• Friends

STICK TO THEM AT ALL STAGES OF YOUR LIFE AND ENJOY A HEALTHY LIFE.

If you see the moon, you will see beauty.

If you see the sun, you will see strength.

If you see a mirror, you will see the finest creation. So believe it.

We are all tourists, and life has already mapped out our routes, bookings, and destinations. Trust the journey and enjoy every moment.

Life is just a journey! Therefore, live today—tomorrow may not be.