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Forest bathing // Sound // Pregnancy + postnatal yoga // meditation. Nurturing connection & community
through nature and sound.
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15/01/2026

The end of last year was challenging for a number of reasons, so I’ve had a longer break than planned.
Softly I’m making my way back to routines and offerings, yet remembering this is still very much a time for resting and wintering. Not rushing - declining busyness for now. I hope you can be gentle with yourself too.

Lovely to offer the first sound baths of ‘26 at last weekend.
This week I was back to sharing weekly pregnancy and postnatal yoga with sound at - nurturing pauses for mums in a busy world with many demands.

A newsletter is being written (slowly) and more offerings for January, February and March are landing softly like snowflakes into the Bookwhen schedule.

I’ve also added a birdsong sound bath for the end of this month, in case you feel called to rest and the restorative sounds of nature. It’s been asked for a lot so I hope it will be supported, even though it’s short notice.

Forest bathing is paused until March, my annual rest from outdoor sessions.

May you be well friends, may you lean into the softness and beauty of a spacious schedule. Bare branches, acorns and seeds buried deep in the wintering earth. For now simply answering the call to rest as we journey through the remaining winter months.

24/12/2025

With much gratitude and love, I’m signing off this platform for a few weeks.
May your festive season be filled with rest, cosy moments and lots of self-compassion.

I’ll take one final look at emails today and respond to all I can given current illness and in line with what my limited energy permits.
I’ll then be totally offline until 7th Jan.

For any enquiries during this time please send me an email as this will be the first place I will work from in January and not messages on this or other platforms please.
With thanks 🙏
Sending you all warmest festive wishes,
Nicky

21/12/2025

Winter Solstice is with us.
The ever steady turning of the wheel of the year.
This weekend I have been blessed to offer three celebrations in honour.
Solstice forest bathing at where the morning was truly a celebration of golden light and winter’s invitation to rest.
Friday evening yoga nidra at for soulful enquiry within and tending to our wintering inner earth.
Culminating with this evening back at High Lodge, for our celebration. Yuletide crafts, a very special magical lantern light folklore walk in the forest and a reflective sound bath after.
It’s been blessings upon blessings.

I’m tired. My winter den is calling, for now I’ll be tending to my hopeful embers in the grate - nurturing flickers of hope, faith and joy while simultaneously tending to heavier emotions.
Sending you heaps of gratitude and may your blessings abound.
The sun stands still for now, but light will surely return.
Love,
Nicky

Deer Mother // Mothers Night // Yule // Winter Solstice // Thetford forest // Seasonal celebrations

12/12/2025

This month is slipping by faster than I could imagine in a heady mix of awe, anticipation, slow afternoons, preparation, planning, candlelight and a mild fraying around my edges…
It’s normal to feel more tired than usual at this time of year. Sometimes it’s genuinely hard to lean into that, I hope you can find some grace to do so - especially when the to do list seems somewhat infinite.

I’m late posting this midway through the month, so I’m only sharing details of what remains. Please join if you feel the call to a conscious pause before the festivities begin. Most probably we could do with one. I’m taking 4 days off next week to do just that, to recharge ready to share Solstice celebrations with you ✨

Available offerings…
2 spaces - Festive sound bath special - Sunday 14th December

3 spaces - Forest bathing for Winter Solstice - Saturday 20th December
Both at

Fully booked…
Winter Solstice celebrations on Friday 19th and Sunday 21st.

Sessions for sound baths, yin yoga, pregnancy and postnatal yoga and a mini evening retreat in January and February are also trickling into my schedule, some are filling up already so worthwhile checking if you know you’d like to join me early next year for a practice.
Sending you my warmest, cosiest, candlelit festive wishes (and a big plate of cookies)
Nicky

11/12/2025

A softly restful and joyful end to a year of postnatal yoga for mums and babies this morning at

We enjoyed a nurturing practice with a festive twist, lunch together in the cafe and then a lovely group stroll through the forest in the afternoon sun.

Postnatal yoga pauses now for a few weeks over the holidays. Returning to Oak Lodge on Thursday 8th January.
If you’re a mum local to Thetford / Brandon looking for a friendly weekly class that’s welcoming, nurturing and will offer benefits for you and your baby, this could be for you.
Available to book now.
Hugest of thanks to all mums and little ones who joined me today, and additional thanks to those who feature in these photos and consented for them to be shared here 🙏

04/12/2025

Feeling the need to unwind as the end of the week draws near?
Join me tonight or tomorrow for a sound bath.
Last minute availability due to late cancellations - I would be delighted to play for you and not to empty mats.

Should cost genuinely be the only barrier to you joining us and unwinding into a softer way of being, please reach out in confidence and we can create a pathway for you to be there.

All other remaining sound offerings for 2025 are at capacity so I hope this invitation reaches you if you’re seeking and craving the nourishment of rest and sound.

These sound baths are both indoors, in cosy intimate spaces nestled within Thetford forest.

Head over to Bookwhen to book your space or message me for a link.
Warmest wishes,
Nicky

24/11/2025

Without wishing to sound like a well known retailer…
This isn’t just pregnancy yoga.

It’s a weekly reset.
It’s your reminder to tend to yourself, and that in doing so you’re tending to your little one too.
It’s movement, empowerment, threads of yoga philosophy to help you take your practice off the mat, it’s birthing knowledge, tending to your nervous system, a sacred pause. You’ll find a strong emphasis on rest and mindfulness- needed very much during pregnancy. It’s support, community, dedicated space just to honour your pregnancy journey.
It’s a mini sound bath each week.
It’s many things but it’s definitely not just pregnancy yoga.

So don’t wait until your third trimester, or a few weeks before your “due date” - join us from 13 weeks onwards and see for yourself the difference in your body, mind and heart as you navigate this most precious chapter.

19/11/2025

I’m aware I haven’t been very present on this platform lately,
Why?
On a practical note, we recently moved home so there are still plenty of boxes to unpack and a seemingly never ending to-do list.
But living closer to the trees, one cannot help but fall more closely in step with the pace of nature.
Each footstep in the forest is a step closer to doing less.
Each leaf gathered in the garden is an invitation to let go of productivity.

I’m definitely slowing down now toward the end of this calendar year. Weekly pregnancy and postnatal yoga continues. There will be fairly minimal sound bath offerings available from now until Winter Solstice as I prepare for these celebrations. I’ll highlight any remaining spaces for all offerings in stories in case you feel drawn to join me before the year closes.

Meanwhile…
You’ll find me lingering over bowls of homemade soup, snuggling with the cat, seeking warmth and softness everywhere I can. Filling my cup with rest so I can pour out generously to you dear clients, friends and family.

Are you feeling similarly? I hope you can embrace Novembering too. May you remember that rest is productive and essential preparation for the Winter ahead.

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Thank you all for your beautiful and inspiring art 🫶

06/11/2025

Pregnancy and postpartum are times when every moment of self care is like a little love note to your baby.
These seasons of life are incredibly beautiful and precious, yet also can be challenging and lonely for some.
For these reasons I created my weekly offerings of pregnancy and postnatal yoga with sound.

Movement for the body, mindfulness for the mind, sound for the soul and a welcoming space where you can feel heard and supported on your journey from 2nd trimester to 4th trimester and beyond.

🤰 Prenatal yoga - Wednesday evenings, suitable from 13weeks up til birth.
👶 Postnatal yoga for mum & baby - Thursday mornings, suitable for young babies until they are crawling.
📍Oak lodge, with beautiful views out to the forest. At in Thetford forest on the Norfolk / Suffolk border.

05/11/2025

In the forest, a cosy cocoon like space in the woodland yurt. An intimate session within a circle of sound. The tall trees around stretching their branches skyward toward the full moon above.

The full moon this month of November is grounded, patient and strong. An invitation to firmly root into the earth of autumn with what nourishes and sustains us in preparation for the winter ahead. To make peace with the darkness and fall in love with the mysterious beauty that can only be seen within the folds of its velvety cloak.

I hope you’re able to get a glimpse of the beauty of the moon in the sky tonight. 🍂🌕

31/10/2025

Samhain blessings and happy Hallowe’en.
However you choose to celebrate or honour today, may you appreciate the regeneration that darkness offers.

Spirals, endings, decay, beginnings…
A time to remember our ancestors and their wisdom in how they used to live more closely with the rhythms of the natural world.

As the days shorten, remember your part in the wonder of nature. As you see the trees and all else in nature draw down for Winter you might feel this within as you feel more tired, this is nature reminding you that you are part of it.

On this last day of October I wish you wonder, cosiness, warmth, an early night and just a little spookiness… 👻 🎃

29/10/2025

A beautifully autumnal day with the pumpkins at
Nature’s reminder that beauty comes in all shapes, colours and sizes 🎃 we love the pumpkins for their irregularities, quirks, lumps and bumps. Don’t forget to extend this same kindness to yourself 🫶

P.S I’m still ‘off work’ this week and sound baths etc resume on Sunday with a full schedule Forest bathing, yoga, meditation and sound in Thetford forest across November and December 🙏🏻

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http://www.soundandground.co.uk/, https://bookwhen.com/soundandground

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