The Wonder Tree

07/05/2024

A video about Avanti Meadows Primary School, including a section with me as the Area Yoga Teacher.

02/02/2024

Such a fantastic class to teach at All Saints!

Year 2 today enjoying yoga with a winter theme - they practised breathing with tiny snowballs and went sledging all in the school hall.
All classes get to take part in yoga and forest school as part of our broad curriculum.
Thank you to Mrs Thompson from The Wonder Tree

14/12/2023

My role as Hub Yoga Teacher at Avanti Trust schools in Bishop’s Stortford.

14/07/2022

I'm looking forward to supporting Stortford Heroes by having my little Yoga and Mindfulness tent at Party in the Park on Saturday. Come along for some FREE Superhero themed yoga at either 1.30pm or 3.30pm.

We're a local Bishop's Stortford charity dedicated to investing in the community and supporting other

12/05/2022

It's Mental Health Awareness Week. Physical activity has huge potential to enhance our wellbeing, increasing our mental alertness, energy and positive mood. If you like being outside and like yoga or would like to try it, come along tomorrow for a free trial - 9.30am Stortford town park.

12/05/2022

I'm in the local paper! Here I am at Avanti Meadows Community Day sharing my love of yoga to help children's physical and mental fitness.
https://www.bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/news/yoga-and-vegetarian-food-on-offer-at-stortford-schools-open-9253355/

Avanti Meadows Primary, which opened at St Michael’s Hurst last September, gave visitors an insight into its educational philosophy.

23/04/2022

Thank you to everyone who came to today’s Community Day at Avanti Meadows. I enjoyed providing some free yoga sessions and talking to lots of families about yoga, mindfullness and wellbeing.

21/04/2022

What a beautiful morning. Fingers crossed for the same weather tomorrow morning for the first Yoga in the Park of the year. Let me know if you are interested. Please share, thank you.

19/04/2022

Yoga in Bishop’s Stortford town park is back - starting this Friday at 9.30am. Contact me for a free trial.

26/03/2022

I loved the warmth and comfort from the arrival of the Spring sunshine this week. It was so special to run two of my childrens yoga sessions outside. Such a great way to exercise and teach mindfulness. Being outside we could engage our senses, feeling the sun’s warmth and the gentle breeze on our skin, hearing the birds and smelling the fresh air.

10/03/2022

Wonder Story: ‘The Paper Bag Princess’
Yesterday we continued to celebrate International Women’s Day with Key Stage One and Reception . Mindfulness fun - pretending to be a dragon using fire coloured scarves to practise our deep breathing.
Yoga fun - retelling the story of the resilient and brave Princess using our wonderful bodies.

08/03/2022

Celebrating International Women’s Day at The Wonder Tree with Goddess Pose, helping us all to feel confident and to connect with our inner power. Yoga fun with Goddess partner pose, group pose and by adding it to our game!

28/02/2022

Mindful Monday: Take some mindful breaths today to help you release tension. Add a mantra, such as repeating to yourself “let” as you breath in deeply and “go” as you slowly breath out.

25/02/2022

The intension this week was to help relieve tension. For my younger yogi’s, we called it Spaghetti Yoga! Raw spaghetti verses cooked spaghetti is a child friendly way of explaining what tension can feel like in the body and mind. We worked on releasing tension with cat/cow, plow and childs poses, a tense and release meditation and a relaxing Spaghetti Massage.
My adult session today certainly worked - my body and mind feel like I am beginning to release not only my Covid illness but the tension I felt from having it and trying to recover as quickly as possible.

18/02/2022

This storm will pass. Sometimes we all need to ride out our emotional storms because inevitably they will pass; our mood will change just like how the weather is always changing. Mindfulness technique to grow emotional awareness: We are the blue sky where the weather happens and the weather is our feelings. Feelings are just things passing through your mind. You are not your feelings. For more info see my blog on ‘Emotional Literacy: Exploring and Expressing Emotions’ : https://www.thewondertree.co.uk/single-post/exploring-and-expressing-emotions

14/02/2022

Happy Valentines Day! May your day be filled with self love, love for family and friends and those we remember. ❤️
- Sharing books together are a fab way to develop young childrens self love.
- Make sure you remember to practise self care!

07/02/2022

This week The Wonder Tree will be supporting by focussing on our emotional well-being with a human Mood Meter activity and group yoga poses. We will be ‘growing together’ emotionally and physically.