Nurtured Soul

29/12/2025

Pregnancy Yoga, Starting 6th January.
Tuesdays 6-7pm

A space to soften.
A space to be held.
A space to remember that your body already knows how to birth.

Pregnancy Yoga is not about doing more —
it’s about listening,
breathing,
making room,
and letting your nervous system exhale.

Whether this is your first bump or your fourth,
you’re welcome here.
Come move in community, rest deeply,
and reconnect to your own inner wisdom.

All trimesters welcome from 12 weeks gestation
📍 Nurtured Soul Yoga & Wellbeing Studio, Nest + Nurture, Exeter, EX4 2HN
📩 Email to book your space

29/12/2025

Pregnancy Yoga Classes starting on the 6th January, Tuesdays 6-7pm
Nurtured Soul Yoga & Wellbeing Studio, Nr Tedburn St Mary, Exeter EX4 2HN

22/12/2025

As Christmas approaches, I wanted to share a gentle reflection, heartfelt thank you and a short yin practice.
This time of year can bring warmth, connection, and joy, but it can also stir grief, comparison, and quiet sadness. It’s easy to look at other families and feel as though we are missing something, or that what we have isn’t enough. But the truth is, no family is perfect. Every family carries its own joys, wounds, absences, and complexities, most of which are never visible from the outside.
Christmas isn’t about what we don’t have. It’s about noticing and appreciating what is here: the moments of kindness, the shared laughter, the small rituals, the simple presence of those who are able to be with us. And for those we miss, whether through passing, distance, or difficult relationships. It’s okay to hold them in our hearts while also accepting the reality of where things are.
It’s also important to honour our own wellbeing. Love does not require self-sacrifice at all costs. Boundaries are not rejection—they are acts of care. They allow us to show up with honesty, rather than resentment or exhaustion, and they help protect the parts of us that need gentleness.
This Christmas, may we give ourselves permission to let go of comparison, to soften expectations, and to meet ourselves and each other with compassion. However your Christmas looks this year, it is enough. I also want to take this opportunity to say a sincere thank you to everyone who has supported my business this year. To the women who come to classes and workshops, who show up on the mat with openness, courage, and curiosity, thank you. It is a privilege to guide you through yoga, to hold space for your growth, and to witness the strength, softness, and wisdom you carry. This work means more to me than I can easily put into words. However your Christmas looks this year, I hope it brings moments of peace, presence, and kindness—towards others, and towards yourself.
Wishing you peace, warmth, and moments of genuine connection.

Warm wishes and love
Jess x

21/12/2025

Winter Solstice….
The longest night of the year invites us inward.
We begin to move into a space of transformation, opening to the new energy that will come with the return of light.

Tonight we gather as women around the moonfire of sauna, letting warmth meet darkness.
We soften in the heat, then choose the icy edge of a cold dip, surrendering to the wisdom of the body and the quiet strength that lives beneath the mind.

This is not about pushing.
It’s about listening.
About meeting the dark with trust and allowing the light to return in its own time.

In circle, held by water, fire, breath and sisterhood, we mark the turning of the wheel — releasing what has completed, and planting intentions in the fertile dark.

From cold to warmth.
From stillness to spark.
Together.

‘May you find peace in the promise of the solstice night, that each day forward is blessed with more light. That the cycle of nature, unbroken and true, brings faith to your soul, and well-being to you.’

Sending Blessings tonight and beyond.

19/12/2025

Doula or Midwife — what’s the difference?

Both are powerful, both are needed… and they hold very different roles.

A doula
• Holds space for you and your choices
• Centres your experience and your empowerment
• Offers emotional, physical, and informational support
• Supports you before, during, and after birth
• Walks with you — steady, calm, non-medical

A midwife
• Monitors the health of mother and baby
• Is responsible for medical care, safety, and outcomes
• Provides clinical assessments and documentation
• A trained medical professional in maternity care

One supports the journey.
One safeguards the medical path.

Together, they create a circle of care where you are informed, supported, and deeply held.

Because birth isn’t just about what happens to your body —
it’s about how you feel while it happens .

As a doula I offer, support during pregnancy, birth and/or postpartum.
I can accommodate a package for you that works whether it’s a one off meeting to discuss putting a plan in place or any concerns or to walk beside you throughout your whole journey.

17/12/2025

Gift vouchers available for workshops, 1-2-1s and doula support.

Personalised gift vouchers sent digitally for the option of printing.

The perfect gift for someone who needs to feel cared for 🩷

Please get in touch for more info.
Nurturedsoul.co@gmail.com
Www.Nurturedsoul.co

With love
Jess

13/12/2025

Once upon a time, grandmothers were the wise women of the village.
The ones who remembered, who listened, who knew when to speak and when to simply sit beside you.

My grandma has been that woman for me. A steady presence. A living archive of love, resilience, humour, and hard-won wisdom.

Today she turns 92.
Ninety-two years of stories, strength, softness, and survival.

Still teaching. Still holding the thread between generations.

She taught me that a woman’s cycle has purpose — that each bleed is an invitation to listen, to feel, to work through what’s rising… so nothing is carried forward unfinished.
She taught me that when we do that, menopause doesn’t have to be a battle, it can be a soft landing into wisdom.

She also taught me something radical and freeing: that birth, when supported and surrendered into, can be powerful, expansive — even ecstatic. Not something to fear, but something the body knows how to do, when we remove the deep blocks of fear and trauma.

Happy birthday to my wise woman, you once told me I was strong when I felt completely broken, that I just needed to connect with that strength, that it would come in time and you were so right. I feel so lucky to know you and call you my teacher. I love you so much ###x

05/12/2025

As the days draw in and the world gets quieter in one sense, I’ve been feeling the soft vibes of winter magic — exactly the kind that inspired my children’s book, Cyril the Squirrel and His Adventures Through the Seasons. It’s a reminder that each season has its own gifts if we pause long enough to notice them.

I used to really dislike Winter and the cold darkness it drew in but then something shifted within. It was one of those days where stillness just happened, there was no effort, no guilt, no need to be or do anything and I sat in wonder of the magic that Winter brought to the natural world. I listened to the birds, heard the shuffling of animals in the snow and watched as even the trees seemed to marvel at their own beauty as the snow dressed their branches. It was on that day, I discovered Cyril the Squirrel. He was a character I had carried with me since a child. I realised how many characters I had created and made friends with in my imagination, fairies, tree spirits, birds, badgers, foxes, dragons, they were all there always keeping me company.
The magic they brought, sparked a light deep in my heart and my eyes were once again filled with childhood delight and the comforts I found and I fell in love with Winter again.
This book was written from that place, a childhood journey that travels parallel to the map of our inner world. I poured my love into the books pages to help heal and inspire the children that read them.

Each doorway Cyril opens, a psychological door to new perspectives, creating new relationships with our environment. Our mind has the ability to bring comfort when we can feel lost or unsure, but to nurture the mind we must understand how to nurture the imagination……

This book is a magical interpretation of how the doorways of the mind are always a greater adventure to new perspectives and possibilities.

However this deeper thread does not take away the simple and joyful story of Cyril’s adventures..

If you’d like a signed copy, please get in touch directly otherwise you’ll find links on my website www.jessicachristie.co.uk of where to purchase.

28/11/2025

Sharing my beautiful yoga teachers pregnancy routine 🩷

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This 40-minute class is designed to support you through every stage of pregnancy—helping you build core and hip stability, create spaciousness in the body, a...

26/11/2025

A dark winter evening… the kind that feels alive with a little hush of magic.
With other women by your side, y
ou step into the warm glow of the sauna, the air rich and soft, your body sighing out the whole week. Then—when you’re ready—you slip into the cold plunge under the night sky, that electric rush waking every cell like a spark of winter starlight.

And afterwards? Hands wrapped around a steaming chai latte, spicy and sweet, the perfect finish to a night that feels half-ritual, half-treat.

A little pocket of midwinter magic.
A reset.
A glow-up for your soul.

To book, click on the bio go to workshops on the website menu and follow the link to buy tickets 🎄

Sunday 21st December 4.30-6.30pm

23/11/2025

Would you be interested?

In a monthly sauna and cold plunge with a warm chai or cacao afterwards chatting and forming new connections with other women?

21/11/2025

The holiday season can bring a whirlwind of excitement and pressure. This year, let's focus on what truly matters: family, rest, and healing. Explore more about nurturing these values during Christmas at https://wix.to/R6Pay67.

The holiday season often arrives with a mix of excitement and pressure. For many of us, especially as women, Christmas can quickly shift from a joyful celebration to a source of overwhelm. The push to create the perfect holiday experience, fueled by consumerism and endless to-do lists, can leave us....