Sunflower Yoga with Nicola

24/05/2026

Yoga Nidra for your Period| Deep Rest & Nervous System Healing

SAVE for a good nights sleep -

Yoga Nidra for your Period. Get ready to invite deep rest & nervous...

06/05/2026

I’ve just started a NEW Yoga YouTube Channel dedicated to all things Menopause Yoga.

https://youtube.com/?si=3FZu7_5igl7pX2GT

I am a qualified Menopause Yoga Teacher and this channel will be sharing 10 Minute Yoga Flows to help you feel calmer, stronger, better informed and more empowered as you travel each stage of Menopause - whether you take HRT or not.

Please pop over and take a look and consider Subscribing and Sharing with your friends.

I’ve scheduled some Shorts to run this week and then hope to have our first Free 7 Days of Menopause Yoga Challenge starting soon.

Welcome to my Channel. I am a qualified Menopause Yoga Teacher and currently navigating my own Perimenopause. I share short yoga practices to support your changing body as you move through midlife and beyond. Covering all stages of Menopause - Perimenopause, Menopause and Post Menopause. Yoga for Me...

30/04/2026

FULL MOON YOGA 🌕

“My mind is like an internet browser - 20 tabs are open, 3 are frozen and I have no idea where the music is coming from"

This quote from Kirsty Gallagher about this week's Full Moon, perfectly sums up how I am feeling under this week's Full Moon 🌕 in the watery and emotion packed sign of Scorpio. ♏️

This 🌕Moon peaks at 6.23pm on Friday and she is here to really pack a punch and shine her brightest light on all of your shadows.

➡️What are your patterns of self-destruct?

➡️How do you keep yourself playing small?

➡️In which ways do you self-doubt and always play it safe?

I invite you to carve out some time for yourself over the next few days to slow down and give yourself some time to sit with and process some of the emotions that are coming up.

The Sun ☀️is in Ta**us ♉️ during this Full Moon, bringing with it the themes of nurturing, self-care, safety and security.

Taking some time out on your 🧘‍♀️yoga mat this week could be just the tonic you need.

I have crafted a beautiful medley of yoga practices for you to create your own at home Full Moon in Scorpio Ritual.

4 recorded practices offering over an hours worth of content for you to mix and match to give yourself just what you need.

BOOK HERE only €8

Please share with any like minded friends 🙏

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14/04/2026

M O O N. M A G I C .Y O G A. R I T U A L S

Cosy at-home 🧘‍♀️yoga rituals to fill your 🩸heart, nourish your body and soothe your mind 🧠in this crazy 🤪 world that we find ourselves in right now.

Time just for you. To make choices that are aligned with your body. To take what you need. What your body is calling out for. 🤗

Our practice opens with a short meditation to land.

You then chose which path to take next.

A Waxing Yoga Flow (highlighted in the video) if you are feeling a gentle rise in your own energy or;

A Waning Yoga Flow if you are feeling a dip in your energy.

There is no right or wrong way to feel.

Please take the option that feels best for you (and you will receive both flows so you can take the other when that feels aligned for you.

Follow this with the 15 Minute Yoga Nidra Meditation (included), Journaling, Oracle Cards, Cacao, Crystals or whatever you else fancy.

Do you like to work with the Moon? What draws you too her?

Join our rituals for this new 4 week cycle starting with Friday’s New moon 🌑 in Aries.♈️

€15 for 2 x practices at the New and Full Moon plus 2 x Yoga Nidra meditations

13/04/2026

During perimenopause the rollercoaster 🎢 that is your hormones can also affect your joints.

Is there anything it leaves alone?

Changes to your hormones leads to changes in the amount of synovial fluid available to oil your joints.

So if you are waking up feeling a bit like the tin man in the wizard of oz try a few of these gentle stretches to lubricate your joints and get you moving a bit more smoothly in the morning.

Follow for helpful tips to support you with your menstrual cycle and stages of menopause.

09/04/2026

Yoga 🧘‍♀️ for the Last Quarter Moon 🌗

Start in standing gently swinging the arms from side to side inviting a gentle twisting motion to the body.

Come down to high kneeling - half camel pose

Child poses + side stretches

Lay on your back - figure of 4 (reclined pigeon)

End in Savasana

31/03/2026

🌕Full Moon - 🌻Inner Summer - Ovulation - ☀️Summer - Lover/Mother - 🩸Menstruating/birthing years

Repeat after me: “I am visible, I am seen, I am important”
➡️And again!

🧘‍♀️Yoga to work with the energy of this week’s Full Moon 🌕in Libra.

* Standing Warm Up to get the heart pumping

* Low Lunges with Bow + Arrow arms to work all around the heart and warm up the legs for Warrior.

*Child Pose to remind yourself to take time to rest for balance.

* Warrior Poses, Goddess Pose, Tree Pose for strength and balance.

*Winding down with Twists,Bridge Pose, Supported Savasana

⬇️What would you add?

⬇️Do you like to change up your yoga flow with the energies of the moon or your own inner rhythms?

27/03/2026

MARCH MORNINGS 🌷

Do you have a morning routine? I love to get up before the house fully wakes to enjoy a few minutes to set myself up for the day ahead.

When I rush into my day too quickly, this sets a tone of rushing and reacting for the rest of the day, so when I take time to move more slowly into my morning, this serves me so much better. I am calmer with the kids. I take care of my own needs better.

My 3 Morning Non-negotiables

1. My first drink of the day is warm water with lemon 🍋and ginger 🫚 to nourish my digestive system before eating.
2. A few minutes of either yoga 🧘‍♀️ movement or meditation. I have been favouring meditation this month and have been really enjoying recommended by
3. Doing my Menstrual Cycle 🩸Awareness Check-in.
4. Eating a balanced breakfast which includes fibre, proteins and healthy fats. 😋

How do you like to start your day? What is getting in the way of you starting the day how you really want to?

23/03/2026

7 days of Gentle Yoga to spring clean your practice as we shift seasons.

Links shared daily this week in my stories or visit my YouTube channel Sunflower Yoga 🌻

20/03/2026

CREATIVE TENSION

I had a breakthrough last night as I sat with my tribe sisters around the Next Stage Celtic Wheel Virtual Hearth Fire last night.

I have been feeling uncomfortable this week thinking that I have to have it all worked out, now that we are at the point of the Spring Equinox.

I had a deep winter dreamtime and have my fiery arrows poised to strike but I don’t feel ready yet to launch.

Can you resonate at all? Are you holding onto dreamtime and feel afraid to take those next steps?

But we don’t have to have it all worked out just yet. This next 6 weeks is the time for holding the tension, sitting with what is and trusting this cyclical process.

To feel into what is being called for tending, for nurturing, for strengthening as we head towards the growing season, we aren’t quite there yet.

This is uncomfortable. This can feel scary. We don’t know what is going to happen next.

This is the point where I can start to give up on my dreams, make excuses for not continuing on with projects. I don’t like this time of now knowing. I like to be in control.

But I am going to try something different this equinox. To sit with this feeling of creative tension. To feel into it. To trust my body to keep guiding me.

I’d love to know how you are finding this Equinox?

17/03/2026

DARK MOON PHASE 🌚

“I give myself permission to rest”😴

Fully hidden in the Earth’s shadow, the Dark Moon🌚 is your invitation to rest.

Mirroring the energies of the Void before Menstruation 🩸and Menopause.

Invite Child Pose, Extended Savasana and Yoga Nidra 💤into your yoga practice.

Take your journal 📝and reflect on this lunar cycle. What went well? What have you learned about yourself? What do you need to let go of now? What do you want to bring into the next cycle?

Thursday’s New Moon in Pisces ♓️invites you to start over. Begin again.

➡️Join me for a Recorded 45 Minute Yoga 🧘‍♀️Ritual to help you set your intentions for the new cycle ahead. 30 minutes of movement. 15 minutes of yoga nidra. Journal prompts + affirmations.

🌒This will be followed by weekly practices to help you work with and take action on these intentions at each of the 4 main phases.

😊Full details in bio or pop me a DM if you have a question.