Te Hine Ruru Retreat

16/08/2025

YOGIC CLEANSING TECHNIQUES-
SHATKRIYAS- are a combination of 6 purification practices designed to cleanse the body and mind.

One of these called JALA NETI supports the respiratory system especially in this season of colds,flus, sinus congestion or allergies.

A Neti pot like this one in the photo is filled with a warm saline solution.
Tip the head to one side and put the spout of the pot against one nostril.
The solution passes through the nose, clearing the passages and comes out the other nostril.

This helps with congestion when you are experiencing symptoms or as a regular preventative cleansing practice.

❤️YOGA for mind +body + spirit Health ❤️

10/08/2025

Join us for an afternoon of NOURISHMENT, CONNECTION and WELLBEING this winter.
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Sunday 17th August
2-5pm

Bookings:
https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=27617475&appointmentType=82071512

09/08/2025

A SACRED PAUSE
Winter is a perfect time with rain,cold and grey skies to lean into the essence of winter and find the gifts there for you.

Winter is a time of going inward, into longer nights, your spiritual self, reflecting, tending to the unconscious.

If you find this more yin, feminine time difficult to be in, difficult to stop and pause the doing self, then invite in the energy of FIRE to help.

It keeps alittle bit of energy alive for you, it invites you to rest not in a vacuum of emptiness, but a soft glow of warmth, tenderness, love and comfort.

Do you like or not like the season of Winter?
Do you find it difficult to stop in Winter?
Does winter make you feel sad or depressed?
What are you favourite ways of resting in Winter?
What are you trying to avoid by not being still?

Sometimes the doing and going (continual sympathetic state of being) is a way of protecting yourself from feeling sadness or feeling pain about something in your past. If you are continually busy you don’t have time or space to let other thoughts, feelings and sensations in.

And this can be protective to a point - until your health suffers because your body never rests for long enough and you are in constant pressure or stress.

Take baby steps- rest or do nothing for a short period, breath through the uncomfortable feelings in your body. This may also be a time to finally feel what’s beneath the busyness. You do not have to do it alone. EFT Emotional Freedom Technique is the perfect modality if you’re ready for a deeper dive with safey, genuine heart felt connection and nervous system regulation.

If you’d like to take a baby step into all the essence of winter has to offer you - then you might also be interested in
🔥WINTER WARMTH - an afternoon of wintering in, wellness in community.

Pm for details or leave a comment WINTER below

08/08/2025

REST in Winter like the Earth’s Seasons

•Do you find it difficult to stop doing?
•Do you find it difficult to say NO to
More things to do,
More events to go to,
More people to see,
More responsibilities to meet?

When what you really want to do is rest and be still.
But somehow you don’t know how to anymore?

Our culture is definitely part of the reason for this inability to stop and rest.
It’s “24 -7, must be productive and useful the whole year round” cultural norms in which we live.
TO REST IS TO DEFY NORMATIVE CULTURAL VALUES

We have also come out of sync with the seasons. If we were aligned with the energy of Winter we would naturally weave more rest, sleep and non doing into our year in this season.

If we honoured and respected our moon time, our bleeding time each month we would also regularly make time for rest and care of our bodies and spirit.

As women we are more likely to be the care takers in our families and communities, which makes it harder for us to prioritize our need for REST and stopping. There always seems to be something else we need to do for someone else.
REST prevents feelings of being BURNT OUT and RESENTMENT
Share with a friend who needs to hear this too ❤

If you’d like some support and help to make REST a priority in your life, help to say NO, especially around the time of PERIMENOPAUSE and MENOPAUSE when looking after yourself is vital to your health and wellness, then get in contact for a 20 min discovery call.
Sessions Available Online and In person

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=27617475&appointmentType=39630296

06/08/2025

Beautiful music and mantra for those of you working with the Lions Gate Portal at this time 🦁❤️✨

https://open.spotify.com/track/2VsKjfi6WMpvm1qfNOYTPl?
si=vPnc2jaaSL27OsoztjZ2Yw

Equanimous, Activation, We Saw Lions · Cellular Upgrade (We Saw Lions Remix) · Song · 2020

05/08/2025

Purpose Cancer patients frequently experience both physical and psychological challenges, including chronic pain and depression. While conventional treatments primarily rely on pharmacological interventions, complementary approaches such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) may help alleviate bo...

05/08/2025

Delighted to be able to offer you several different types of energy healing.
Each from a different lineage,
Japanese, Indian and Irish.
Get in touch to chat about which one would suit you best or book here

https://tehineruru.com/energy-healing/

Cushla 🌺

01/08/2025

IMBOLC- HONGONUI BEANNACHTAÍ BLESSINGS
🌱Halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.
🌱First light, the stirrings of warmth and earth energy waking up.
🌱A return of life after the deep dark of winter. The continued choice to rebirth after death in our earths energy. A festival that imbues a sense of hope and trust in the future and the cycle of life.

This photo shows the intersection of the two seasons perfectly with the bare tree of winter with leaves shed, and underneath the first daffodil flower of springtime 🌱

A seasonal festival of light and fertility often marked by burning candles and in my Irish lineage by honouring the goddess and Saint Brigid.

NB Lughnasadh blessings for my northern hemisphere kin❤

23/07/2025

ARE YOU STUCK AND NOT HEALING?

Sometimes the healing needs to happen at a different level than the physical body.

🌀in the sensations and emotions of events, memories and habitual ways of being
🌀in the spirit, past lives, generational imprints or the stored energy in your aura
🌀in the mind, anxious, disconnected. Beliefs and thoughts that may have formed and changed who you are.

Sometimes physical health and healing is elusive until the other pieces of the jigsaw puzzle also heal- so that all parts of your wholeness - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual are aligned and well.

If you’ve tried everything for a physical disease maybe you need to work upstream in one of these other realms.

Modalities available which can help on these other levels of health are
🔺EFT Emotional Freedom Technique for emotions, sensations and thoughts.
🔺Meditation for thoughts and beliefs
🔺Yoga for all levels of health
🔺Irish Shamanic Healing, Chakra Healing and Reiki to help with spiritual distortions

Get in touch today for a free 15 min consultation online/ in person to discuss what you need ❤️

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=27617475&appointmentType=39630296

17/07/2025

🌀MY BODY TEMPLE 🌀
On holidays recently I did a 4 day hike in the mountains of Switzerland.

I had a previous knee injury from a 2 day hike in the Routeburn so I knew that I needed to prepare my body for this experience.

❤️ I did some physio therapy exercises in the 3 months before to strengthen my right knee that had the injury.

❤️As I was walking at altitude and ascending most days around 900 m I prepared my lung capacity by doing yogic kumbhaka - breath retention to help me get used to less oxygen.

❤️I prepped for a few months before by taking longer walks as my daily exercise and including lots of hills in these walks.

❤️I got some walking poles to support my knees on the descents.

❤️I brought a tumeric and ginger paste, strapping tape and a knee sleeve on my hike just in case I needed them.

I’m happy to say that with preparation, care and strength I was able to walk 4/5 hours each day. I had no major effects of the hike in my body apart from feeling a bit tired.
During the hike I felt good, at no stage was it too hard mentally or physically. And afterwards I felt great and would love to do more. I’m feeling super proud of myself and confident in my body’s ability.

The body is so amazing when we care for it and respect it. With a little patience, time and preparation my body really increased its capacity on so many levels and for that I’m super grateful.
In perimenopause the body really needs a lot of attention and care and it often feels like everything is on a decline. It can be a real wake up call for women to look after themselves after caring for everyone else in the past 20 years.
But that doesn’t have to be the end point. After the descent and body assessment- we can recover and make our bodies stronger and more resilient than before.

Being able to hike in the mountains with snow capped peaks, waterfalls, forests and beautiful meadow flowers was truly amazing and filled my heart to capacity too ❤️ Being that high on the earth was something special.

Walking upwards, the ascent felt like it was part of my rebirthing journey - into the next stage of my life. This walk became part of my rite of passage in a way-into the Queen years.