Wise Hearts Yoga

06/07/2025

Feeling so so lucky to be waking up to this beautiful view of the Howgills for the past few days , then teaching early morning yoga outdoors on the deck , to the loveliest open hearted group of women . The deck is lovely and damp underfoot ( but so refreshing !) . I also led evening yoga nidra in the indoor studio . Yesterday we enjoyed the sauna and cold plunge too ! Gorgeous vegan food all weekend created by Nic 😋. What a place !
Thank you so much Lynette ( Bliss Moves) for inviting me 🌸🙏🏾🥰 .. it’s been wonderful to guest on your Chakradance retreat ###x

21/04/2025

Hi friends .If you are looking for a way to practice some beautiful heart centred yoga , there is now room for new class members at Tuesday Evening Yoga 7 -8pm on the top floor at UpCo in Otley. (access info: no lift and several flights of stairs)
We start up again 22nd April. Classes will run for 5 consecutive weeks up to the Whit half term break providing a lovely opportunity to explore our way along the rainbow journey of the chakras with our yoga practice. We begin tomorrow evening with stepping across the threshold to enter the body through the root support of Muladhara to explore the base through the element of earth and gravity from where we push down to rise up with prana.
It would be lovely to see you . Please book here if you wish to join tomorrow evening (drop-in basis/pay for one week at a time) :
https://bookwhen.com/yoga-with-chrissy/e/ev-s7l5-20250422190000

14/02/2025

❤️ All love to you
❤️ All love to our beautiful Earth 🌎

01/02/2025

Blessed Imbolc!
The light is returning, inch by inch, whispering the quiet promise of spring. Imbolc invites us to awaken from winter’s stillness, to stir our dreams like seeds beneath the earth, ready to break through.

This is a time of renewal, of cleansing, of tending the sacred flame within. Like Brigid’s fire, may your spirit burn bright with creativity, hope, and warmth. May you honor what is growing inside you, knowing that even the smallest spark can light the way forward.
Step gently into this season of becoming. The earth is stirring, and so are you.
✍️ Rivers in the Ocean

01/12/2024

🌌🕯️

Shine your light. 💫 In the Northern Hemisphere we are entering the darkest time of the year where everything in nature slows down, gets still and quiet and all life turns within. It is a time to embrace simple traditions and remind ourselves of the midwinter promise of the return of the light after the Winter Solstice. Even though we can't feel it yet, deep inside us there is an inner knowing that the dawn is close when the night is at its darkest…

In these longest nights of the year a daily ritual as simple as lighting a candle in the morning or evening hours can make a difference. A tiny beacon of light shining in the darkness, symbolising the hope of the return of sun, light and warmth.

Let our candle remind us to shine our inner light brighter and brighter each day into a world that might appear to be getting bleaker and darker… And let’s imagine all the many candles shining in our homes and in our hearts all over the planet, connecting us in a network of light, bringing more love, light, peace and healing into the world.

When you light your candle, we invite you to take a moment to connect to all the candles burning brightly within our global community — lightbearers uniting in the darkness. 💗

20/11/2024

As you know I love candlelight and literally could live by it and fire light all the time !!

I have noticed when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing - their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling ~ their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights, then I start thinking about projects, demands, deadlines, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to be done, not a background to thought.

Jeanette Winterson

art | The Night School, Gerrit Dou. 1660-1665

16/11/2024

…”the gentle voice at the heart of your life “ ..
listen ✨

When you take the time to draw on your listening-imagination, you will begin to hear this gentle voice at the heart of your life. It is deeper and surer than all the other voices of disappointment, unease, self-criticism and bleakness. All holiness is about learning to hear the voice of your own soul. It is always there and the more deeply you learn to listen, the greater surprises and discoveries that will unfold. To enter into the gentleness of your own soul changes the tone and quality of your life. Your life is no longer consumed by hunger for the next event, experience or achievement. You learn to come down from the treadmill and walk on the earth. You gain a new respect for yourself and others and you learn to see how wonderfully precious this one life is. You begin to see through the enchanting veils of illusion that you had taken for reality. You no longer squander yourself on things and situations that deplete your essence. You know now that your true source is not outside you. Your soul is your true source and a new energy and passion awakens in you.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (US) / Divine Beauty (Europe)
Ordering info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

15/11/2024

💛 HAPPY FULL BEAVER MOON 💛
Dear all of us around the planet who are united in our love and fascination for the full moon! Tonight we are all going to be united again under the light of the same full moon!

In the Northern Hemisphere the November full moon is also known as the 'Beaver Moon', as it is the time of year when beavers retreat into their shelters for the darker and colder period of the year. For all of us in the north - humans, animals and plants alike - it is a time to turn more inwards too.

Maybe we can use the longer nights leading up to the winter solstice to take stock of our learnings from this past year? Looking at what is truly valuable to us, what we would like to keep and take with us into the new year and what we would like to leave behind.

May we feel warm, safe, secure and nourished as we are going into the darker and colder season and may we be able to nurture the seeds we choose for our future while they are resting in our hearts over winter. May they take root and grow into the beauty we wish to manifest in our lives when warmth and light return in the springtime.

Let's invite all changes which want to happen in our lives right now to gently unfold under the light of the full moon.

07/11/2024

❤️🙏🏾

"Last night I dreamed
ten thousand grandmothers
from the twelve hundred corners of the Earth
walked out into the gap,
one breath deep
between the bullet and the flesh,
between the bomb and the family.
They told me
We cannot wait for governments.
There are no peacekeepers boarding planes.
There are no leaders who dare to say
every life is precious,
so it will have to be us.
They said
We will cup our hands around each heart.
We will sing the earth’s song, the song of water,
a song so beautiful that vengeance
will turn to weeping,
the mourners will embrace,
and grief replace
every impulse toward harm.
Ten thousand is not enough, they said,
so we have sent this dream,
like a flock of doves
into the sleep of the world.
Wake up. Put on your shoes.
You who are reading this,
I am bringing bandages
and a bag of scented guavas from my trees.
I think I remember the tune.
Meet me at the corner.
Let’s go."

~ Aurora Levins Morales
Artist Unknown any information greatly appreciated
Sisterhood connecting as one.