Akhila Yoga & Ayurveda (2026)

05/06/2021

Shifting into Summer ☀️
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This drink works like magic when you’re feeling overheated physically or emotionally!
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Cucumber and Coriander 🥒🌱
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According to Ayurveda, cucumber and coriander together contain many many benefits, including:

🌿Anti inflammatory effects
🌿Alkaline and Sattvic properties
🌿Soothes the body to help with migraines, as well as skin conditions like eczema, psoriasis
🌿Perfect recipe for allergies and heat exhaustion
🌿Cleans the liver and honestly just tastes really good!
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I also add, fresh ginger, a squeeze of lime, Triphala powder and Neem powder.
Please don’t add ice! As tempting as it is in Summer, to keep this recipe true to Ayurveda and easy to digest, just add a splash of room temp water. 💧 Best time to drink it is when the sun is highest in the sky, around noon! 🙏🏼
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Give it a go and Happy Weekend! 🌈
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02/05/2021

*ERICEIRA! I am teaching in person again!*
So excited/emotional/nervous? To be able to share yoga again in real life with no screen between us! 🙏🏼😱
I’ll be teaching at the beautiful new space birthed by starting tomorrow at 6pm. It’s a tranquil and welcoming shala that will be hosting a mix of yoga, different healing therapies and workshops. I’ll be available for Ayurvedic massage bookings as well. 💆🏼‍♀️😊
Find us at -
📍Rua das Alfazemas 32, Ericeira
Class spaces are still limited so for bookings DM myself or 🙏🏼
So looking forward to sharing space, energy and real connection again in a safe and loving way. ❤️
Check out my stories for a little look at the place!
Lots of love,
Nic
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10/05/2020

Happy Mothers Day (in some countries!) 😊🙏🏼✨
I love listening to my grandmother talk. I love hearing my mums stories of when she was a teenager, the dreams she had as a young woman and watching the stages in life she has so gracefully gone through.
Before my story was my mothers story. Before her story was my grandmother's.
I honour all of the women who came before me and all of their stories. Mothers, grandmother's, key keepers of wisdom and deep, deep wells of love.
Today I also celebrate women who have birthed careers and businesses. Women who have brought up other peoples children. Women who have lost, terminated or chosen to not have children in this lifetime. I honour you.
And to my own wonderful mum, I love you! ❤

07/05/2020

Who are you without anxiety?
Who are you without back pain?..

Did you know that you are practising Ayurveda every day? 🌿 And it's in more ways that drinking fresh juice in summer or craving potatoes in winter! 😊 Although this is a simple way of demonstrating how our bodies are always naturally seeking balance. 🙏🏼..

Ayurveda was introduced to me in India, at the same time I took my first yoga teacher training course. It has helped me in dealing with digestion problems, depression, anxiety and many more imbalances. Most of all my studies into this healing system encouraged a general sense of empowerment within my own body and lust for life. It spoke to me as I felt I'd finally found a language that treated food and lifestyle practises as medicine 🙌🏼 and offered me real, workable tools to apply to my daily life and take care of myself and others in a meaningful way.
If you are feeling called to go deeper with Ayurveda, discover your dosha, (mind, body, soul type) working out a unique yoga practise for yourself or simply have a talk about rituals, routines and recipes that will help you re-member your true nature and who you are WITHOUT pain or dis-ease - reach out to me to set up an online consultation. Online calls and consults are a new way of doing this work for me but it translates well and honestly I've been enjoying the process, feeling very grateful to be able to connect with you all! 🙂
It has been so beautiful to see many friends and family members holding their health and wellbeing in higher regard recently. As a collective we are being called to enquire and see the value in real self care right now. Opening up to new ways of moving forward that mutually benefit us and this planet we call home. Let's keep it going...❤😊🌍
🎥- podcast 💛
Love,
Nic

04/05/2020

So many quick life changing decisions have had to be made recently and at the same time... stillness. So many work plans have been shoved to the side for later and yet, at the same time... stillness. Allowing what is truly important to be revealed to you in this period of collective pause seems to be the point here.
I liken this time to an earthy, knees on the ground, hands in the dirt, frantic search for water... looking for clarity or meaning in it all.
Allow whatever is falling away to go. Welcome in all the feelings, however unpleasant. See them as doorways. Stay as curious in your grief and as inquisitive in your fear, as you are in moments of joy and happiness.
This is all an invitation to remember. ❤
☆LIVE YOGA TOMORROW☆
45 minute Vinyasa class here on IG live. Suitable for all beautiful bodies. 🙂 9AM UK TIME. 🙏🏼
📸 - taken last year at Mini Adams Peak in Ella, Sri Lanka. Endless mountain views for days. 😍
See you tomorrow! 🧘🏼‍♀️
Love,
Nic
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26/04/2020

I was supposed to be in Bali at the moment, working with a wonderful organisation 💛
Let's Imagine Inc. is a registered non-profit organisation in Lovina, Bali. They partner with global NGOs to reach underserved youth and communities with their free yoga camps.
The students come from remote communities that already suffer significant poverty. Many families survive on remittances from their employed children. Now under these circumstances thousands are out of work, without any social services safety net.
Since I can't be there in person right now and the camps have been placed on hold, as an ambassador I wanted to offer live classes here on Instagram as a way to raise some funds for the families affected. 🌈

SO!

Yoga Live schedule this week - All livestreams are UK time but I will also leave the classes on my stories afterwards so that you will be able to access them for the following 24 hours if this time doesn't suit. Flows suitable for all levels. 😊

☆ MONDAY 27th 9AM - 45 min Vinyasa flow.
☆ TUESDAY 28th 9AM - 45 min Yin/Yang flow.
☆ THURSDAY 30th 9AM - 45 min Hatha class.

If Bali has nourished your journey, and/or if you have the means to give anything at all (A few pounds or euros helps to feed a family for a week,) please feel free to share and circulate to help. Thank you to for welcoming me into the family and for the beautiful work you do. 💫
Click the link on my page to make a direct donation. ❤
Thank you and see you tomorrow on the mat!
Love,
Nic

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@ Lovina, Bali

19/04/2020

Today I have decided I am in Portugal...
Yesterday I was in India. 🙏🏼
I have fully realised over the years, throughout all the movement in my life that freedom is a state of mind. Right now I am here, at home in Scotland. Fully. I am very much present don't get me wrong, sitting with it all and feeling all the things... but we all wander off sometimes, right? My travelling mind is in no way curbed by this physical stillness. She is as active as ever. ✈
Where have you been floating off to recently? 💭
Let's see where tomorrow takes me. Maybe I'll go back to Morrocco, or perhaps Sri Lanka? 😊🌍
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Tonight is the launch of a video call I filmed last week with for our Virtual Retreat- Reset, Renew, Recharge. I talk about Yoga and Ayurveda practises that have immensely improved my wellbeing mentally and physically. If you haven't signed up already you can still click the link in my bio to join for FREE! ❤
Also this WEDNESDAY 22nd 6.30pm UK TIME there will be a live Q&A where you can ask me anything! 😅 Excited to see how that goes and would love as many of you there as possible!
Happy day of Sun.
Sending love,
Nic
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15/04/2020

Been feeling into all sorts of directions this week. Like an odd wee sock inside the washing machine. Up. Down. Sideways. Inside out. Outside in. Stretched out of shape and generally kinda soft and a bit frazzled. 🧦💥
Aren’t we all?
I went for a drive today and found an empty field so of course I had a play around and enjoyed a moment of solitude (there are 3 of us in a small apartment right now - alone time isn’t really a thing.)
I closed my eyes and saw myself free of limitations and remembered my power. I do not belong in this reality and neither do you. YOU ARE POWERFUL AND SACRED. You exist beyond the cycles of waking, eating and sleeping. It doesn’t serve any of us to play small.
My yoga practise has been saving my life more than ever on a daily basis right now and I know it’s doing the same for a lot of you. Movement is my medicine but also, there are times when a whole day of rest is needed. Whatever you are gravitating towards right now, pay attention. Quiet the external noise, feel into your power and be fierce about it.
If a yoga practise is one of the things your spirit is calling for join me tomorrow 9AM UK & PORTUGAL ⏱
It will be a 45 minute Vinyasa flow. Theme is💧Balance🔥
See yourself and be empowered.
Walk in your fullness.
See you on the mat!
♡
Love,
Nic
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09/04/2020

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🎙 So excited to finally be sharing this lovely conversation with 💛
I first met the founder of Self Care Vortex last year while I was teaching yoga workshops at a retreat space in Sri Lanka. She was a beautiful energy to be around, so when I was asked to be a part of her podcast I didn't hesitate to jump in! 🙏🏼
We talk about my life pre and post India, all things yoga and ayurveda as well as some challenges and life affirming experiences of travelling solo all these years. I loved the experience and I'm grateful to have been given the space to share. Curious to hear what you all think! 😊💭
Listen to the full episode by clicking the link in my bio or here :
www.selfcarevortex.com/blog/ep-42-remembering-your-inner-wisdom-with-nicola-paxton-and-melissa-kiss
The podcast can be found on The Self•Care Vortex Podcast ™ Spotify, Apple music, Soundcloud, YouTube among many other apps and platforms. It's an amazing collection of beings on there, sharing their stories and light with the world. Check it out! 💫
Hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed talking! 😂
Also thank you to those who joined for Yin class this morning. Back to Vinyasa next week starting Monday 9am. 👌🏼
Love to you all ❤

08/04/2020

Yin yoga flow tomorrow morning from the comfort of your own home. ♡
Join me here on IG Live 🤗 Be ready with your mat and as many cushions and pillows you can get your hands on! 😄
Make it as indulgent and comfy as you like! Think jumpers and warm socks. 😍
☆☆☆ 9AM UK & Portugal⌚☆☆☆
We'll be moving slow and holding beautiful, healing positions that will help us release any heaviness in the mind and body, as well as easing any of those small aches and pains! 🙌🏼🙏🏼
Let's embrace this potent lunar energy in the atmosphere and within ourselves. 🌕
Class will be around 50 minutes. I truly love this practise and can't wait to share it with you all. ❤
ALSO - for the lovely people who have signed up for the 6 week virtual retreat that started on Sunday - Reset, Renew, Recharge - there will be a live Zoom Q&A with the wonderful and the rest of the team this evening 6.30pm UK TIME - be sure to tune in. 📞 For those who would still like to join ... you can! Click on the free sign up link in my bio for access to all calls and content.
See you in the morning!
Lots of love,
Nic
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