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Anam Pilates & Wellness, Kildare (2025)

23/12/2025

A little pop up class to keep us going over the festive period and take us from Christmas to New Year.

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21/12/2025

Grianstad an Gheimhridh 🌀⚖️

Usually the winter solstice brings a sense of relief, the light is finally returning. This morning though, I felt a sense of reluctance in my body. I have been enjoying these darker days this year. I made a promise to myself at Samhain that this year I would embrace the darkness and the opportunity to spend more time in stillness and presence and it has felt sacred.

The solstice and that incremental return of light is not an invitation to jump back out of my cocoon. Instead it is a threshold and a very welcome reminder that the light will return, but it will do so in it's own time. There is still time to rest.

And so I will stand at this tairseach for a little longer, to be with all that has been this year, one of deep transformation. I know that the time will come when the light will overcome the dark and that leaves a flavour of hope in my cells. Dochas sa dorchadas. And for now that is enough

📹 Solstice sunrise
📷 A chain that Eoin gave me a number of years ago, the design inspired by the beam of sunlight that enters the chamber in Newgrange on solstice morning. The spiral always makes me think of the constant movement of us, through life, bringing with us the wisdom of the past into the future. I loved the piece so much I had it tattooed on my wrist

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19/12/2025

Do you know the feeling of love in your body? For me, it feels warm. My heart feels like it can stretch so much, it is close to bursting like a firework. It's a feeling of such expansion, everything feels more open and brighter. I love sharing love. I feel so lucky every single day when I think of the love that I have been lucky enough to know.

One of the biggest shocks I have experienced so far in my life has been what it feels like to still have so much love but nowhere for it to go. That is what I have heard grief described as. It holds all of the same intensity but now it feels anything but warm and expansive. It feels suffocating and oh so painful. When I think about my Dad, it's like, for a split second my brain forgets he is gone. Then, just as quickly, I remember and the shift is excruciating. I never knew something could hurt so much, on so many levels. My heart no longer feels like it is stretching but like it is hard. It starts to crack like the land along a fault line at the start of an earthquake. Little cracks that travel until eventually it shatters. There is, what feels like a solid, heavy mass in my chest, that catches my breath. I feel like I will never breathe deeply again. I never, for a second thought I would struggle to believe or accept that he is gone, forever. It's been a year now and I still can't. It's been a year now and there are still times where the pain is so intense that I feel like all of my skin has been removed and there is nothing to protect me from it's rawness. It's been a year now and still everything feels cloaked in a dullness. Life for everyone else is moving along as normal and I wonder can people see the blanket of grief still around me. Sometimes it's like a light mist, swirling gently and other times, like a winter coat, it's pockets weighted with rocks.

It's been a year now and my heart still aches to look into his loving eyes, hear his voice, to hold his hand or touch his soft face, one of the greatest loves of my life. It's been a year now and all I can do is keep reminding myself that the intensity of the pain is because of the intensity of the love.

Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann
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15/12/2025

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Pop up class in aid of Focus Ireland. At this time of year more than ever, the thought of being without a home seems even more unimaginable. As most of us gear up to spend time with our loved ones in our homes let us not forget all of those that are not as lucky as us.

This class will be a combination of very gentle, mindful movement followed by guided mediation. This is your invitation to press pause for a short time and take a rest amidst the increasing demands of the Christmas season.

Please send me a message to grab your spot
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09/12/2025

Wintering ❤️

I have always struggled with the darker half of the year. I have just tried to get through it, always longing for the light to return. The dark days brought, an almost constant, bubble of anxiety. They make me even more aware of time passing.

This year I made a promise to myself to embrace this season and it has been so beautiful to allow myself to sink into the darkness and drop wholly into myself.

Being in my body has been a game changer. I realise how much time I have lived from my head, this continuous stream of, often, disconnected thoughts. I can't even know if they are my own or ones I have picked up from others and made them mine. This means I have always felt out of alignment. My body is where my truth is and this sacred time of Winter has gifted me the space to recognise that.

The practice of daily meditation, has felt so deeply nourishing. I have been reading the work of Staci Haines and have committed to her centering practice daily. It is so incredibly profound and the habitual nature of it means it is landing in my cells, making it more easily accessible. This practice allows me to get a sense of dignity, belonging, safety and purpose and it offers me the chance to ensure I live in a way that never forgets that those pillars shoud also be accessible to everyone else too.

I have practiced alone but also, my gorgeous friend has been guiding us through 21 days up to grianstad an gheimhridh (winter solstice). I have sunk fully into it whether in the stillness of my home or in the middle of the city, as the world starts to speed up around me.

I cannot recommend, taking some time during these winter days to embrace our innate cyclical nature. Take time to be still, to settle into your body and welcome the wisdom that is revealed in there.

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06/12/2025

You are so warmly invited to land in this soft place, to be held in a cocoon of care.

Maybe you are in the midst of something big, grief, heartbreak, overwhelm, change or confusion. Perhaps you are feeling worn out in every sense. Or, it could be that you are just feeling off, not like yourself, but you can't quite put your finger on what it is. Reiki healing will meet you where you are with compassion and love.

This is a space to come and press pause on the almost constant demands of trying to survive, even thrive in a capitalist soceity that seems obsessed with productivity and striving. Who is benefitting from you ignoring your body and soul and refusing to allow yourself to be cared for?

This is a space full of care, a space where you can connect back to that magical ember, that spark of life that is you.

This is a space to remember all that you are connected to and all that you came here to do.

Send me a message to chat about coming for a session. I would feel truly lucky to hold you as you heal.

Grá mór
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29/11/2025

Two years marching! Swipe to see my daughter who came with me to my first march. Other than one march for Repeal the 8th, I had never taken to the streets. And now here I am two years later still having to put my body into action to shout for the lives of others.

There was such dissonance present today. To walk through the city that was twinkling with Christmas lights, the streets full to the brim with shoppers laden down with bags. The air of Christmas excitement was there and yet my heart felt so heavy watching it all as I walked with my Pals. I am not saying that these people are not so deserving of joy, we all are, BUT, so is everybody else.

I could see these people, so full of unearned privilege watching us march past. We were singing and calling out the messages that occupation is a crime. It was a crime when it happened to our people and it is a crime now. We shouted that Palestinian lives matter, and I found myself wondering what has gone so wrong that we even need to specify that. All lives matter! And yet, many of the shoppers looked on us, at times, with a sneer on their face, or a roll of their eyes, some even laughing, only stopping short at pointing along with it. Some people even looked confused, like they had no idea what we were marching for. I felt more and more saddness settle within me. How can this be? How do you become so shut off from the suffering of others? How can you reach such a level of apathy? I will never understand. Apathy is exactly what allows these war crimes to continue.

Every time I march it usually feels so uplifting, it fills me with hope. Today felt different. I felt so sad and, to be very honest, hopeless. Two years taking to the streets and nothing has changed. People are still being bombed, starved, denied the care that they need, denied basic human dignity while our governments refuse to take any meaningful action. All the while, they continue to gaslight the people that put them in power.

We are deserving of a joyful and dignified life AND so is everybody else. It is our responsibility to keep fighting for them. That is Love!

We are the people
We won't be silenced
Saoirse don Phalaistín
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28/11/2025

Reiki 🌀

This life force energy that exists within all living things. An energy that does not discriminate between life, it just seeks to sustain us all. It is beautiful and profound and when we tap into it we can be in no doubt of how deeply the connections between us run.

Reiki healing can be sent across time and space to try and help to restore a sense of balance and remembrance of this undeniable interconnectedness. I have offered distance healing the past two Friday mornings and it has been very beautiful. I have invited people to send me the names of people or an intention to be held for healing. As I sit within the energy the names and faces of many others came to me too. My heart felt so full of love.

It becomes clearer with each passing week, particularly as I choose more time in stillness, where I can listen to my heart, that the reason I am here in this time is to hold space for others. My Dad was gifted at doing this and it now feels like I will carry on his legacy. What a gift! I will continue to send distance healing each Friday morning but I also want to remind you that I offer 1:1 healing sessions. To physically hold others in momemts or turbulence or turmoil feels like the greatest honour to me.

Please feel free to reach out if you would like to chat more about the magic of Reiki

Grá mór
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23/11/2025

If you have never done Pilates and are not sure if it is for you, I would really love if you would come and give it a go. I really believe that everyone should be doing it. The physical beneftis are plenty. With regular and consistent Pilates, you will get stronger, your flexibility and mobility will improve, as will things like your balance and co-ordination.

As someone that has been diagnosed with a significant bulging disc in my lower back Pilates has been at the centre of keeping me pain free. I was due to have surgery on my back on 7th October but didn't need it and, in fact, I managed to complete the marathon at the end of October. Pilates was all I had really done to help with my back.

As well as all of this however, what I highly encourage in every class is to take the opportunity that the space provides to really drop down into your body. Don't think about what the movement looks like, feel it in your body. Allow yourself to enter into communication with this living, breathing, wonder that is your body. Maybe consider what wisdom you might be able to tap into when you gift yourself a short time away from the constant demands for your time, attention and energy.

The classes are suitable for absolute beginners with options offered that make things more challenging if that is what you would like. You are strongly encouraged to meet your body where it is at.

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