Soul Moves with Jess (2025)

08/09/2025

“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Our feet are so incredible: walking, dancing, hiking, swimming, and adventuring are just some of the things that are made possible because of them. They carry us through life, step by step, often without us even realizing the enormous role they play. Not only do they allow us to move and explore the wonder of this world, but they are deeply connected to our entire body—think of foot reflexology, where every part of the body has a reflection point in the feet. They are truly a pathway to healing.

Feet also ground us. Literally. With every step, they connect us to the earth, anchoring us in the present moment. Walking barefoot, especially on natural ground like grass, sand, or soil, has been shown to calm the nervous system, balance energy, and restore a sense of harmony in the body. This practice of “earthing” or grounding is more than just poetic—it’s deeply healing.

When we care for our feet, we are caring for our whole being. Strong, flexible feet support healthy posture, protect our joints, and ripple upwards into the health of our knees, hips, spine, and even our breath. Weak or neglected feet can lead to tension, pain, and imbalance throughout the body.

Leonardo da Vinci said it beautifully:
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

✨ Simple ways to love your feet ✨
– Take a grounding barefoot walk on grass, sand, or earth.
– Roll a tennis ball or massage ball under your feet to release tension.
– Stretch your toes and ankles daily to improve circulation and balance.
– Soak your feet in warm water with salt or lavender for relaxation.
– Pause for a moment of gratitude—thank your feet for carrying you.

May your feet take you where your heart wants to go—and may you remember to show them love, gratitude, and a little tenderness along the way.

How do you feel about your feet? Do you walk barefoot to ground, stretch them, or give them the same care you give the rest of your body?

18/08/2025

✨ Aerial Yoga Workshop ✨
Come and experience the magic of movement in the hammock.
This special aerial yoga workshop blends playful exploration with mindful connection, allowing you to feel supported, challenged, and inspired in new ways.

We’ll move through a combination of:
• Strength & stability to build confidence in the air
• Gentle inversions to decompress the spine and refresh your mind
• Creative transitions to spark joy and curiosity
• Restorative and yin aerial poses that melt away tension and leave you floating in bliss

This workshop is designed for those with prior aerial yoga experience who want to get back in the hammock, refine their skills, explore transitions, and expand their repertoire in a safe, supportive space. Expect laughter, empowerment, and a whole lot of fun—both upside down and right side up!

🗓 Date: Friday 22nd August 2025
🕒 Time: 5:30pm- 7pm
📍 Location: The LightHouse
💰 Investment: R450
Spaces are limited, so booking is essential.

Come curious, leave uplifted. 💫

02/08/2025

🌻 August Studio Schedule – Fresh Flows + Aerial Magic 🌻

Here’s what’s new and nourishing in studio this August — a few gentle shifts to support your practice as we move through the seasons.

MONDAY
🕗 8:45 AM – Aerial (Beginners)
🌅 5:30 PM – Vinyasa Flow

WEDNESDAY
🌄 7:15 AM – Vinyasa Flow
🕗 8:45 AM – Aerial

THURSDAY
🌿 10:30 AM – Vinyasa Flow

Come move, breathe, and ground into yourself this August.
Let the sunflowers remind you: it’s always okay to turn toward the light.

07/07/2025

Dear YIN community,

With the new schedule unfolding at Lighthouse, there’s a beautiful sense of newness and possibility — and yet, there’s also a tender shift to share.

As some of you have already noticed, there won’t be a regular YIN class in the new morning lineup. I know many of you have asked about this, and I want to say how much I’ve loved holding space for our slow, grounding practices together.

For now, the way to continue practicing YIN with me will be through my monthly Yin & Nidra events, where we can still meet in the deep pause — with stillness, silence, and those longer, nourishing holds.

I’m exploring options to bring regular YIN classes back into the rhythm, and I promise to keep you updated as that unfolds.

In the meantime, thank you — truly — for being part of this YIN space with me. It continues to be one of my love languages, and such a privilege to guide.

I’m still here, always inviting you to pause, to soften into stillness, and to stay curious — because there is always magic waiting there. ✨

With love,
Jess

14/05/2025

MY WEEK IN STUDIO🌈
A few gentle shifts in the schedule—here’s where you can move, breathe, and be with me and you:

Your weekly lineup:
✨ Monday 5:30 PM – Flow
✨ Wednesday 8:15 AM – Flow
✨ Thursday 10:30 AM – Flow
✨ Thursday 5:30 PM – Yin

Each class is an invitation to return to yourself.
To land. To soften. To move with purpose and presence.
To feel what’s alive in your body and give it space to unfold.

You don’t need to be “flexible” or have it all together—just bring your breath and your willingness to show up as you are.
This is your space to explore movement, stillness, and everything in between.

Let’s root down, rise up, and create space for joy, clarity, and connection—together.

See you in studio, in your home or at an evening.

22/04/2025

Yin & Nidra Evening at Lighthouse Holistic💫

The Chakra system: Two: Svadhisthana/ Sacral chakra.

Enjoy, Flow, Create, Feel:
The Sacral Chakra is associated with creativity, emotions, pleasure, and relationships.

This second session is an invitation to flow with your emotions, awaken creativity, and embrace pleasure with ease.

As we explore Svadhisthana, we invite fluidity—physically, emotionally, and energetically. This is a space to reconnect with your senses, nurture joy, and honor the natural rhythms of your body.

Through mindful movement, breath, and stillness, we soften resistance, allowing emotions to flow rather than stagnate. Like water, we learn to adapt, move with grace, and surrender to the present moment.

This practice is an invitation to:
✨ Feel – Welcome your emotions without judgment
✨ Create – Awaken inspiration and self-expression
✨ Flow – Move with ease, letting go of rigidity
✨ Receive – Open yourself to joy, pleasure, and connection.

✨ Yin Yoga: A slow, meditative practice that works deep into the body’s connective tissues—fascia, ligaments, joints, and bones. By turning inward, we cultivate awareness of the physical and emotional sensations, fostering self-exploration and connection.

✨ Yoga Nidra: Often called “conscious sleep,” yoga nidra is a guided meditation technique that invites you into a state of deep relaxation between wakefulness and sleep. This practice encourages theta brainwave activity, supporting healing, rejuvenation, and profound rest. Also known as NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest), nidra offers restoration for mind and body alike.

Join me for an evening of curiosity, self-discovery, and love at Lighthouse Holistic. Let’s explore together.

What to bring: A mat, a blanket, and a journal + pen.

📅 Date: Tuesday, 6 May 2025

⏰ Time: 7:15-9:15 PM

💰 Investment: R400

📍 Venue: The Lighthouse Holistic, 6th Floor, The Barracks, 50 Bree Street, Cape Town

Let’s stay curious and see the magic. 💫

03/04/2025

Never Stop Playing, Moving, and Exploring🫶
Tapping into one of my words of the year: JOY.

There’s something magical about moving outside—feeling the sun on your skin, the earth beneath your feet, and the freedom to stretch, twist, and explore without walls.

Yoga isn’t about poses; it’s about curiosity. It’s about stepping outside, waking up your body, and moving in ways that feel good—rolling, stretching, balancing, and playing like a child discovering the world for the first time.

What happens when you let go of the “right way” to move and simply play? Can you turn a walk into an adventure? A stretch into a dance? A yoga practice into a journey of exploration?

Let nature be your playground. Climb, crawl, flow, pause. Breathe it all in.

✨ Move for the joy of it. Play for the fun of it. Explore because you can. ✨

20/03/2025

Yin & Nidra Evening at Lighthouse Holistic❤️

The Chakra system: One: Muladhara: base chakra.

Support: Connect: Ground 🙏🏻
“He tina ki runga, he tāmore ki raro.” - “In order to flourish above, one must be firmly rooted below.” Maori Proverb

The base chakra, Muladhara, is the root of our being—the foundation upon which everything else is built. Just as a tree cannot grow strong and tall without deep roots, we too must feel steady and supported in order to expand, flourish, and connect fully with life. When our root chakra is in balance, we experience a deep sense of safety, belonging, and trust in ourselves and the world around us.

Over the next seven Yin and Nidra evenings, we will journey through each chakra, beginning with our foundation. This first session is an invitation to ground, to connect with the earth beneath us, and to explore what it means to feel safe, held, and at home in our own bodies.

Through gentle movement, stillness, and reflection, we will explore affirmations such as:
“I am safe. I am home.”

And sit with questions like:
“How do I nurture myself?”

By bringing awareness to our roots, we cultivate a strong, stable base from which we can move through life with greater ease, trust, and connection.

Join me for an evening of curiosity, self-discovery, and love at Lighthouse Holistic. Let’s explore together.

What to bring: A mat, a blanket, and a journal + pen.

📅 Date: Tuesday 1st April 2025

⏰ Time: 7:15-9:15 PM

💰 Investment: R400

📍 Venue: The Lighthouse Holistic, 6th Floor, The Barracks, 50 Bree Street, Cape Town

Let’s stay curious and see the magic. 💫

09/03/2025

WEEKLY SCHEDULE IN STUDIO 2025 🦚
Some changes to my week, check it out.

Come find me here:
✨ Monday 5:30 PM Flow
✨ Tuesday 5:30 PM Beginners Aerial
✨ Wednesday 8:15 AM Flow
✨ Thursday 10:30 AM
✨ Thursday 5:30 PM Yin
✨ Friday 8:30 AM All Levels Aerial

This is your invitation to show up for YOU.
To pause, breathe deeply, and tune into the wisdom of your body. To move with intention, flow with freedom, and create space for growth, joy, and connection.

Whether you’re new to the mat or a seasoned yogi, you belong here. This is a space to explore, to play, to rest—without expectation or judgment. A space to reconnect with yourself, your breath, and the present moment.

Come as you are. Leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more at home in yourself.

Stay curious, embrace the magic, and let’s nurture our bodies and minds together. 💙

24/02/2025

Yin & Nidra Evening at Lighthouse Holistic🌸

The Heart: Summer: Full Joy🌻

In TCM, the Heart houses the Shen, or spirit, which expresses itself through JOY and love. It is the “inner sun” radiating warmth and vitality. Just as summer invites full bloom, the Heart invites us to open fully to life, to love, and to the present moment. However, just as too much heat can lead to burnout, too much outward energy without balance can lead to restlessness or overwhelm. Yin Yoga reminds us that joy also requires grounding, stillness, and presence.

In this Heart-focused Yin practice, we embrace this balance, honoring both the bright, expressive energy of summer and the quiet, nurturing stillness that keeps our inner fire from burning out.

Our yoga nidra practice will take us deeper into the depths of joy, understanding that it isn’t something we need to chase, that it isn’t an external thing but rather an innate quality of the heart and cultivated from within.

✨ Yin Yoga: A slow, meditative practice that works deep into the body’s connective tissues—fascia, ligaments, joints, and bones. By turning inward, we cultivate awareness of the physical and emotional sensations, fostering self-exploration and connection.

✨ Yoga Nidra: Often called “conscious sleep,” yoga nidra is a guided meditation technique that invites you into a state of deep relaxation between wakefulness and sleep. This practice encourages theta brainwave activity, supporting healing, rejuvenation, and profound rest. Also known as NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest), nidra offers restoration for mind and body alike.

Join me for an evening of curiosity, self-discovery, and love at Lighthouse Holistic. Let’s explore together.

What to bring: A mat, a blanket, and a journal + pen.

📅 Date: Wednesday, 5 March 2025

⏰ Time: 7:15-9:15 PM

💰 Investment: R400

📍 Venue: The Lighthouse Holistic, 6th Floor, The Barracks, 50 Bree Street, Cape Town

Let’s stay curious and see the magic. 💫

06/02/2025

Day dreaming of days spent on the beach, with my favourite human, doing my favorite thing, in my favourite place💃🦩🌸🦋❤️🌈🫶

29/01/2025

Something I absolutely love about my aerial practice is how it’s helped me grow comfortable exploring inversions. From headstands to handstands, aerial yoga creates a safe space to build strength and confidence while maintaining proper alignment. The hammock supports your body, guiding you to engage the right muscles without unnecessary strain or the fear of falling.🦋

Inversions with the hammock not only help you develop the strength needed for headstands and handstands, but they also ensure you do so safely, with mindful alignment and reduced pressure on your neck, shoulders, and spine. This support allows you to focus on building stability, balance, and control in your practice.🙏🏻

Inversions are a beautiful way to shift your perspective, challenge your body, and cultivate a playful sense of curiosity. If you’re keen to explore the magic of going upside down, build strength with safe alignment, and add a fresh twist to your yoga practice. 🦋

Come try one of my aerial classes. The hammock’s got you, and so do I!🫶

Stay curious and see the magic 💫

Soul Moves with Jess