Anam Pilates & Wellness

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.

Drop me a message to join in
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18/11/2025

📣 New Class Alert - Please share!
Starting Friday 28th November

I really do believe that everyone should be doing Pilates.

🌀I love the opportunity it gives me to really drop from my head into my body.
🌀 I love the way it challenges my beliefs about what my body is capable of.
🌀I love the way it makes me stronger in body, mind and soul.
🌀I love the feeling of space it brings to me, all parts of me
🌀I love the impact it has on how I move through my day

The benefits are many and multifaceted. I adore guiding people through this way of moving

Send me a message to join us on the mat

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17/11/2025

Let's gather before the sun rises.
Let's take time to be still and with what is
Let's move our bodies gently to welcome the day, to hear the whispers from our centre.

DM to join

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14/11/2025

Samhain 🧡

As much as I have always promised myself I would embrace this darker season, I have never quite mastered it. I have often spent it, wishing it away, pining for the brightness. This year has been so full of so much that the call to sink inward and allow myself to be wrapped in the cloak of The Cailleach could not be ignored. I have sunk into daily meditation and writing, slower movement at times, immersing myself in the words of wonderful Manchán Magan, connecting deeply with the land and offering myself Reiki.

The practice of this has been a gift. It has been a chance to turn down the noise and reconnect to my heart and to the wisdom of my body. I realised how disconnected from myself I have been. I have not been able to discern whether what I have been putting out has been truly me, or has it been what I thought might please people. I want to be sure that what I am sharing or offering is a valuable contribution and is rooted wholeheartedly in love. Time is passing, and it feels important to me not to waste it.

I would love to invite you to share in embracing the potent energy of Samhain with me. As much as practising on my own holds its own magic, I adore sharing space for mindfulness and movement. I would love to facilitate an online space on Friday mornings 6.45-7.15am from Samhain to Solstice, and you are so warmly invited.

This will be a space for slowness, presence, gratitude, reflection, and connection. What do we need to shed, to allow to to die, decompose, compost in order to rebirth.

Comment or send me a message to join this container

Bigí linn

03/11/2025

30/10/2025

Samhain sunset over Lough Ennell 🧡

I sat, as the wind whipped around me, staring at such beauty, letting the sound of the water wash over me. Totally present, ready to surrender.

I always struggle with the shorter days. I get more anxious as the darkness settles around us. This year however, something feels different. I feel myself being drawn into the cloak of the Cailleach.

So much has happened this year. I want to sink inward and examine the multitudes that exist within me. I am ready for darkness and want to be enveloped by it so that I can re-emerge when the light returns and Brigid's fire roars, full of the wisdom gifted to me by winter.