Karen Pullan Yoga and Wellbeing

09/12/2025

Practicing Tratak the last two days. Beautiful students resting in the glow of candlelight.

09/12/2025

09/12/2025

09/12/2025

Thank you Asda Foundation for your kind and generous donation of refreshments to help keep our wonderful community group running for a little while longer. Any donations to support our weekly chair yoga and coffee morning group are graciously and gratefully accepted. We can enjoy our coffee mornings for a little while longer. X x

09/12/2025

About a year ago, my yoga teacher recommended Mahanarayan Oil — and I’ve been using it ever since 🌿✨ It has become one of my absolute go-to oils, especially at this time of year when Vata energy is high 🍂💨
🌿 Mahanarayan Oil Benefits
A classical Ayurvedic oil traditionally used to pacify Vata and support the body through cooler, windy seasons.
✨ Contains 17 active herbs
✨ Deeply nourishing for the whole body
✨ A natural analgesic — especially soothing for muscular and joint pain
✨ Supports bones, tendons, joints and muscles
✨ Commonly used for arthritis and joint degeneration
✨ Helps the body heal through its immuno-regulating properties
✨ A powerful anti-inflammatory — used to support many chronic conditions
✨ Frequently used in CFS / ME for its restorative qualities
✨ Traditionally recommended in the classical Ayurvedic texts for daily self-massage (Abhyanga)
If you’re feeling achy, overwhelmed, or a little “Vata-aggravated” right now, this beautifully grounding oil may bring you the comfort and nourishment you need 💛🧘‍♀️

04/12/2025

In the depths of winter, this gorgeous tea blend is a total game-changer ❄️🔥. It boosts circulation, warms you from the inside out, and fires up your digestive “inner flame.” Perfect after a big festive feast (looking at you, Christmas dinner! 🎄🍽️) to speed up digestion and banish that heavy feeling. And the best bit? It tastes absolutely divine. ✨
It also makes the dreamiest homemade Christmas gift for the tea lover in your life 🎁💛. Grab a pretty Kilner jar, tie it with ribbon, add a handwritten instruction card, and voilà — a thoughtful, fragrant gift they’ll treasure all season long.
What you’ll need:
Dried cinnamon sticks (broken/crushed) – 3 parts
Dried cardamom pods – 1 part
Pink or black peppercorns (pink look extra pretty!) – 1 part
Star anise – 1 part
Cloves – 1 part
How to make it:
Fill your Kilner jar to the brim using the ratios above.
To brew, add 2 teaspoons of the blend to a cup or tea ball, pop in a slice of fresh ginger, and pour over boiling water.
Steep for 5–10 minutes, strain, and enjoy.
Add a touch of raw honey if you fancy a little sweetness 🍯✨.
A warming winter ritual in a cup. 🌙🔥

03/12/2025

02/12/2025

As the colder months settle in, this is one of my most comforting herbal tea blends — something traditionally relied on to protect the respiratory system and ease the body through autumn and winter. Today, clinical evidence also supports what herbalists have known for generations: these simple herbs help nourish the lungs, reduce mucus buildup, and support healthy oxygen flow.
They’re also naturally rich in anti-viral and anti-bacterial compounds, offering gentle protection and support when seasonal infections start to circulate.
This is one of my “go-to” cosy sipping teas at this time of year — warming, soothing, delicious, and made with ingredients you can easily find in any supermarket. Enjoy its comfort,
Ingredients:

1-2 teaspoons of freshly grated ginger

1 cinnamon stick

3-4 cloves

2 cups of boiling water

Fresh lemon (optional)

Raw honey to taste

Instructions: Place all the herbs into a tea pot or large cup, pour over the 2-cups of boiling water and leave to infuse for 5-minutes. Strain into a cup with a slice of fresh lemon (optional) and add honey to taste once cooled to drinking temperature. Enjoy

30/11/2025

To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost.
But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honor what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.
— Heidi Priebe

29/11/2025

This morning I woke up with a sore throat which progressed to a cough as the day went on. I grabbed my raw honey from bee man mixed in cinnamon, turmeric and black pepper. I’ve taken a few spoonful’s and I have to say I feel much better already.

Here’s the recipe: 🍯

Add 4 teaspoons of ceylon cinnamon powder and 2 teaspoons of turmeric
powder (with a pinch of black pepper) to 12 teaspoons of raw honey and mix
together well. Eat 1 tsp three-four times daily as both cinnamon and honey help to dry up and astringe mucous congestions, so this remedy can work wonders

29/11/2025

Goddess meditation
1 - Get into a comfortable position with your feet flat on the floor if you are in a chair, or sit comfortably on the floor using cushions for support. You need to be comfortable.
2 - Breathe through your nostrils. Focus your breath, settle into a gentle rhythm.
3 - Notice the connections your feet, your body make with the earth below you. As you absorb that energy of the earth connect with the divine energy within you. Visualise a warm, nurturing light glowing in your heart centre. Bathe in this restorative, healing energy. Feel her power, her strength and her courage.
4 - Feel the engird of this light vibrating throughout your entire body. Notice how it illuminates every cell. Now picture that energy emanating outwards from your heart centre into the universe. Resting here in this healing space for a few minutes until you feel ready to move again.