Yoga & Therapies for Women

03/12/2025

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Be kind to yourself, you’re doing your best and that’s enough

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01/12/2025

The difference between belonging and fitting in, is the difference between laughing from deep in your belly about how ridiculous everything is, and covering your face because you can only smile when it feels safe to do so. It’s the difference between the text that makes your lungs tighten up and your whole body tense for what is coming, vs the one where you feel so safe and so seen you could almost cry with relief. Pay attention to how it feels when you walk in that room, talk to that person, or make those plans for tomorrow. Your body’s inner knowing is always guiding you, but too many of us have been taught to ignore it. Choose the people and places you belong with every time, not the ones who ask you to perform for them ❤️

01/12/2025

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01/12/2025

Hello December! ❤️🙏🏼

17/11/2025

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In truth, shedding our many layers of beliefs, habits and defensive practices built over the decades, especially those developed from our earliest traumatic experiences, takes a long, long time. It is a slow, infinitesimally gradual process as we painfully remove one tightly wound skin after another . . . .
If we can accept this then we can ease up on ourselves and sink into a lifelong journey of release and growth. At times it feels like we’re making no progress. But in fact, when we look back with self-compassion we can see just how far we have come. Yes, there's probably still a long way to go but that’s the point: it’s the journey of a lifetime to become who we truly are. To remove our many skins of pretence, falsity, protection and harmful self-beliefs and behaviours is a gradual revealing of our true, fullest rainbow colours once more.

Angela Dunning www.facebook.com/restoringthesacredfeminine
Artwork by Carlos Quevedo

16/11/2025

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Coorie-ing in -

If I hadn't gone out today
I wouldn't have heard the seagulls calling to each other or the squeak squeak squeaks of the oyster catchers, and
I wouldnt have seen the Flying-dolphin-shaped pink cloud above The terraced houses with the slanted roofs

If I hadnt gone out today
I wouldn't have met the lady with the Pearl-white chiffon headscarf tied so loosely that It looked a halo, and
I wouldn't have seen her black patent Handbag with the kiss-lock clasp and her Black patent ballet-style pump shoes, and
She wouldn't have smiled and
Told me that her husband died
A year past yesterday and
That it helps to go to the places they Often went to and
I wouldn't have seen the love filled tears
That sat hovering on the edges of her lower eyelids and
She wouldn't have smiled so sweetly and
Said I hope to see you again dear and
I wouldn't have said I hope to see you too

If I hadn't gone out today
I wouldn't have got just chilly enough
To look forward to
Coming home and Coorie-ing in and
I wouldn't have seen the golden sun
Melting down behind Arthur's seat
Just before I got home -
This is all of of course only
If I hadn't gone out today

©️.Elaine Tara Farris

08/11/2025

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On Saturday, we joined the march and rally because, for too many women, children and young people, the support systems that should keep them safe are broken, under-resourced, and failing. We marched for all women and children, particularly those most under threat from abuse by perpetrators, by racism, by systems that discriminate on the basis of immigration status and by poverty. Scotland should demand better.

🏠Every woman and child deserves safety, dignity and refuge, but refuges across Scotland are under threat from chronic underfunding.

⚖️Domestic abuse is a deeply embedded feature of our system and is nurtured by economic systems that keep women and children poorer and by political systems that keep us out. We want stronger prevention, better accountability, and appropriate justice.

💜Survivors’ journeys don’t end when they leave their partners. Access to housing, affordable and accessible legal support, mental health support, trauma-informed justice, economic security and child services must be operational and available to all women and children, regardless of their immigration status.

🤝We call on local and national decision makers to prioritise women and children in marginalised and underserved communities, who already face significant barriers to safety and support, and whose safety is further at risk from increasingly hostile public discourse.

We walked not just to protest, but to insist: Policy isn’t progress unless it produces actions that improve the safety and life choices of survivors and respects all women’s and children’s human rights.

31/10/2025

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Let us together rename this night Witches’ Eve. Let us together make it a time of mourning: for all women who are victims of gynocide, dead, in jail, in mental institutions, r***d, sterilized against their wills, brutalized. And let us on this night consecrate our lives to developing the revolutionary sisterhood—the political strategies, the feminist actions—which will stop for all time the devastating violence against us.

~ Andrea Dworkin

31/10/2025

When your body feels unsafe, even if your mind says you’re fine — it’s your nervous system asking for care.

These 5 simple tools can help you return to calm: breathe deeply, move gently, connect, hold, and ground. 🌱

Healing begins when your body starts to believe you’re safe again. 💛