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Esme Winterflood Yoga & Embodied Trauma Therapies

Certified Yoga Therapist | 200HR Yoga Teacher | TCTSY-Facilitator | Havening Practitioner | Reiki Practitioner
Sessions available online and in person, located at Hertford's The Secret Space 105 Fore Street, SG14 1AS.

23/02/2026

Two special beings in my pack 👦🐶

As we age I can’t help but feel more and more grateful for all the challenges and joys.

I rehomed little Pepe when he was 3, 14 years ago! And we’re still lucky enough to have him around.

They love us because we protect them, feed them and house them. Animals have a regulated nervous system and help us to feel calm and loved. So get stroking!!

🌸🌻🌍💫

11/02/2026

It's on!

If you’re living with trauma that still shows up as tension, numbness, hyper-vigilance or feeling disconnected from your own body — this Trauma-Sensitive Yoga course could be for you...

"Trauma Sensitive Yoga - 10 week course with Esme, at The Secret Space.

A 10 week group trauma sensitive class led by Esme, who is a trained TCTSY-F (Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator)

TCTSY is a specialised body-based practice to help treat complex PTSD.

This body-based practice has its foundations in neurobiology, hatha yoga, attachment and trauma theory to create a safe framework with which participant and facilitator explore ‘having a body together’. This in turn, can help to cultivate feelings of safety, embodiment and empowerment within oneself, and ultimately better mental and physical health."

Starting Tuesday 14th April 2025, 2-3pm. 🌱🩷🥰

If you live in Hertford or the surrounding areas, are curious to learn more about this practice, or would like to book your place, please follow the link here:
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=41366&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000234&date=04/14/26

08/02/2026

Only 2 spaces left for this month’s Nervous System Reset 🤍

If your body feels tense, tired, or wired for no clear reason, this is a gentle place to land.

A slow, trauma-informed session focused on breath, sensation, and restoring a sense of calm and safety in the body.

No pushing. No fixing. Just space to soften and reset.

Learn tools to help you find a more regulated you.

📍The Secret Space, Thursday 12th 5.30-6.30pm
🕊️ Small group, choice-led, restorative
✨ Suitable for anxiety, stress, overwhelm, chronic tension

DM me to reserve your place or book now at www.thesecretspace.org.uk— once these two are gone, that’s it for this month.
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24/01/2026

Havening is a psychosensory therapy originally developed for trauma.

It uses gentle touch, attention, and distraction to support trauma depotentiation — helping reduce the emotional charge held in the nervous system.

But it’s not only for processing the past AND you can use the technique yourself.

Practised consistently, Self-Havening also helps establish a calmer baseline in the nervous system — so you’re less reactive, recover more quickly from stress, and live from a steadier place day-to-day.

This is how resilience is built:
• Through repetition, not force
• Through safety signals, not reliving
• Through regulation becoming familiar

You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from the his method.
This is about creating capacity for a calmer life.

We explore Self-Havening gently and accessibly in my monthly Nervous System Reset — a space to learn practical tools, down-regulate stress, and reconnect with your body in a trauma-informed way.

✨Starts Thursday 12th Feb
✨ 5.30-6.30pm
✨Class Pass welcome

If you live near or in Hertford, and your nervous system could use a little help finding calm and regulation, join us 🤍

22/01/2026

When stress stacks up, and Lord knows our modern day existence can be a strain as it is, your body can get stuck in survival mode.

That’s when you feel wired but exhausted, tense, foggy, or unable to fully rest. Sleep isn’t enough.

This Monthly Nervous System Reset is a gentle, trauma-informed drop-in designed to help your body slow down and feel safe again.

You’ll feel rested, have more energy and able to feel more present.

No pushing.
No fixing.
Just practices that support regulation, rest, and resilience.

✨ Drop-in session
✨ Class pass welcome
✨ Come exactly as you are
✨ Starts Thursday 12th Feb , 5.30pm
✨ @ The Secret Space, 105 Fore Street

Your body knows how to reset — it just needs the right conditions.

15/01/2026

Has your nervous system been working over time?

Feel like you just can’t switch off?

Join me at for this new monthly session offering a slow, soothing evening reset.

This monthly gathering holds a safe space to be held, move gently and focus on down- regulation and rest.

We’ll include:
✨Self Havening (a gentle technique to help lower your Nervous System baseline and create calming brainwave states)
✨Calming breathwork
✨Restorative yoga shapes
✨Long nourishing savasana

Gentle music and a cosy space to help you find balance each month.

🙏Monthly Nervous System Reset
@ The Secret Space, Hertford
🕠5.30-6.30pm

Plus- you can your Class Pass to drop in!
All levels welcome 🙏

03/01/2026

🌕✨ Full Wolf Moon Magic ✨🌕

Tonight, the first full moon of 2026 — the Wolf Moon. Full moons are a good time for releasing what no longer serves you, setting intentions for the coming month.

As Einstein said, “everything is energy”. Humans are cyclical, our bodies transform and grow in cycles. Once you start paying attention to the energy around you, you can connect with its alignment and flow through life with greater ease🌙💫

31/12/2025

I’m knackered 😂😂 I don’t think I’ll be staying up til midnight but I will be reflecting on this year. Never plain sailing, never boring, always changing. Grateful for another year on this incredible planet. 🙏🙏🙏 #2026

29/12/2025

Christmas 2025! Family, friends, dogs and football. The next few days will be long quiet walks and slow yoga. Exhausted and grateful 🙏 🎄🥰🐶

04/12/2025

Balasana (Child’s Pose)

I come to this shape every day. I’ve always loved being close to the ground…. It’s so grounding!

The gentle compression of the abdomen and chest, combined with slow, calm breathing, sends signals to the body that encourage relaxation, lower heart rate, and reduced stress—classic “rest and digest” effects of the parasympathetic system.

We can use these postures as daily tools to come back to balance, not just in class.

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06/11/2025

The science of getting outside!!

When you walk, especially in daylight, your brain gets flooded with signals that reset your internal clock, balance cortisol, and boost dopamine — all helping you feel alert, calm, and focused.

Neuroscientist (who’s great and unpacks the science behind so many interesting human aspects) explains that morning sunlight on your eyes triggers serotonin release (your mood stabiliser) and sets the timer for melatonin (your sleep hormone) to kick in later. Combine that with gentle movement, and you’ve just told your nervous system: you’re safe, you can breathe. 🧘

If you suffer with ptsd, anxiety, depression, moving and getting outside is a crucial component of healing. The rhythm of your steps and the light in your eyes literally rewire your circadian and emotional systems.

So if you do one thing for your nervous system today — walk outside for 10 minutes, no sunglasses, before 10 a.m. Even in the rain!!! ☔️ ®️

09/10/2025

It was a pleasure to attend this event the other week, hosted by who was brilliant.

Bessels work in the field of trauma has brought to light the importance of somatic methods, community and connection in healing from trauma. Elements that are arguably not present in the Western medical system. 😕 The ‘third pillar’ of healing include methods such as yoga, somatic therapies, , acupuncture, dance therapy ….etc are JUST as important to heal! Trauma is an epidemic that causes so many illnesses ….. So let’s explore other methods, connect to the energy of being human, talk to others. The drugs will just mask what really needs healing ❤️

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105 Fore Street
Hertford
SG141AS

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	2pm - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://www.embodiedtraumatherapies.com/, http://www.yogawithesme.co.uk/

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