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Stillness Sanctuary

Experienced Ayurvedic consultant, yoga therapist and yoga teacher. I invite you to come and enjoy a unique healing experience ✨💫💛🙏🏼
Ayurveda ~ Yoga therapy

We invite you to come and enjoy a unique healing experience. We offer:

~ Ayurvedic Consultations

~ Deep Ayurvedic Detox Retreats in India (Panchakarma)

~ Ayurvedic Massage

~ Yoga Therapy

~ Rejuvenating Facial Massage - a non-surgical face lift

~ Bemer3000 - electromagnetic therapy

~ Private and group custom-made retreats

18/09/2025

You are invited to the awesome Southern Drakensburg retreat 💚

Through the ages mountains have been beckoning folks to draw themselves closer to the Divine within and connect with the powerful forces of nature.

Dharmagiri and the majestic Drakensberg is one such sacred place.

Join us in supportive sangha and feel the power and mystery of this sacred mountain, whilst seeping ourselves in the elemental nature of Ayurveda.

Walking, sitting on the earth, bathing, cleansing in the clear water rivers, inhaling the vast ocean of pure air.

This is a retreat that explores the elements within and without.

Contact Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat for bookings.

I hope to meet you there 🌿💚

29/08/2025

I have been reflecting on

What our gardens offer us?
So much!

🌿 Daily intimate connection with nature
🌿 Joy and beauty
🌿 Moments of ease and reflection
🌿 Bring us into rhythm with the seasonal cycles
🌿 Nourishment
🌿 Organic food to table
🌿 Health and wellbeing
🌿 Enhances the value of our properties
🌿 Spaces to pause and play
🌿 Personal green spaces for you and our world

Have you been wanting to redo your garden or simply improve and enhance your surrounding green space?

It could be a tiny unused area, a large make over or a creation from scratch.

Each garden is a reflection of
each person and their home
and it is unique and personal.

With Spring around the corner
I am offering 3 free garden consultations 💚

Drop me a message on WhatsApp
083 7902780

🌿💚🌿

18/08/2025

The reason I have been so quiet is simply because I have been living in a field in a tent surrounded by the most exquisitely magical ancient English woodlands.
No electricity, no plumbing ~ seriously unplugged and deeply immersed in these magnificent trees and clear water streams.
Connecting and aligning with the elemental world.
Upon waking cold and stiff in the mornings, the warmth of the sun’s rays thaw my bones and bring light, renewal and new beginnings to each day.
I bathe my eyes and face in the little stream and fetch my hot water from the fire.
Living in sangha, living in dharma 🙏🏼
Unseen forces guide me.
Beyond gratitude 🙏🏼✨💛🌿

10/07/2025

Bowing down in immense gratitude to all my spiritual teachers ✨🙏🏼
Today on this full moon is
Guru Purnima
A day to celebrate and remember our gurus and mentors ✨💫⭐️
The wise, profound and compassionate beings that have kindly offered their guidance and support along this journey of life ✨💫⭐️
I am deeply grateful for their compass, without which my life and the world at large would be much the poorer.

May the light of your gurus always guide you towards wisdom and peace.

May your life be blessed with the grace of fine mentors.

Let us honour our teachers who shaped us.

🙏🏼✨💫⭐️💛

04/07/2025

Bringing our awareness to our breath is one of the simplest and most direct ways to harmonise and calm our body, minds and hearts.
Our breaths are like bridges integrating our various koshas ~ layers 🌀
creating a state of ease and harmony.

Try this simple fun hand breathing 🖐️
your children and grandchildren will delight in it 🙏🏼✨⭐️

18/06/2025

Little mini brains 🧠…
I tend to listen to my body. So I started buying walnuts and eating a handful before going to bed. Really don’t know why I was doing that.
Then I checked and turns out

‘Eating a handful of walnuts before bed may improve sleep quality for women due to their melatonin and healthy fat content. Walnuts are a natural source of melatonin, a hormone that regulates sleep-wake cycles, and their healthy fats can also contribute to better sleep. Additionally, walnuts offer various other health benefits for women, including improved bone health, reduced risk of heart disease, and potential benefits for brain health and mood’ AI

As we age our melatonin production decreases, so there we have it ~ listen to your cellular intelligence.

14/06/2025

What does it mean to move from the inside out?
Something I have been exploring for many years and feel closer and more aligned to this way of yoga practise.
It’s not about performance, imitation or over-extension but rather a shift towards a cellular intelligence, a visceral sensation within every cell,
a dropping and softening into;
particularly in the deep,soft tissues and fluids.
With this comes a deep connection with one’s own essence.
A way of exploring somatosensory presence that is creative and connected with the flow of a larger life fore that is ever changing and moving through us.
It beckons me into the inner breath ✨💫💛

07/06/2025

What if we viewed getting sick differently?
What if getting sick is actually getting better?

It is our bodies language telling us what is wrong and giving us signals of how to repair, rebalance and rectify.

This is the essence of healing.

03/06/2025

Moisture rising, rain falling …
With a thick heavy head and blocked nose, I explore Ayurvedic ways to attend to dissolve this excess kapha which is thick and heavy and moist in nature.
My first port of call is steaming to dissolve and soften the congestion.
Next comes washing;
Warm salt water with the neti pot sniffed and poured rinsing clean and lastly oiling and lubricating my nostrils.
Instead of spending a week all bunged up, hopefully it will be cleared out with 48 hours.
Ayurveda is not complicated and can easily be integrated into our daily lives 🌿✨🙏🏼

16/05/2025

What is Ojas?

It is an energetic principle in Ayurveda which refers to our deepest inner strength, resilience, resourcefulness and immunity and a thriving of our vital forces.

‘The main function of Ojas is to protect against imbalance and disease. Ojas also protects the body from aging and general decay and maintains the health and stability of the seven dhatus (body tissues), three malas (channels of waste; f***s, urine and sweat), and three doshas (Vata, Pitta and Kapha).

On a more subtle level, the type of superfine Ojas, of which each individual is said to only have 8 drops residing in the heart, is said to stabilize consciousness in the physical body. It helps to keep the heart beating and maintains the span of life. Without Ojas, there is no life.’
Ayurvedic Institute

Certain foods enhance our Ojas
eg. ghee, avocados, dates, figs, almonds, honey and organic cows milk
They are deeply nourishing

Include Ojas rich foods in your foods 💛

09/05/2025

Yoga and Ayurveda are like 2 hands of my body.
They work together, in conversation.
Traditionally both disciples come from the same source ~ the ancient Vedas.
In my practise, I draw from both ancient arts in the healing process ~ including Ayurvedic lifestyle shifts and dietary changes, Ayurvedic herbs as well as therapeutic yoga somatic practices and specific breathing techniques.
When these two disciples are interwoven together as part of the healing process, the effects are deepened and more effective.
Our physical bodies, our emotions and our mind streams are woven together.

04/05/2025

Be extremely careful and compassionate with your body, speech and mind. A stone dropped into water will cause a ripple to move outwards in all directions, continuing on long after that stone left the hand. Likewise, a single action can cause a ripple effect within the interconnectedness of all phenomena, continuing on long after that action was carried out or forgotten.

~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

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