✨ Final Yoga Classes of 2025! ✨
We’re wrapping up the year with a beautiful mix of nourishing movement, deeply restorative Yin, and a joyful, laughter-filled Christmas finale.
🌙 Monday 15th Dec – Hatha Yoga
🧘♂️ Tuesday 16th Dec – Gentle Hatha
💎 Friday 19th Dec – Christmas Deep Rest: Yin Yoga & Crystal Healing
🎄 Sunday 21st Dec – 12 Days of Christmas Yoga Special
🎄✨ Whether you’re ready to slow right down, sink into deep rest, or enjoy a festive class full of movement, humour and laughter — come and join us. 🧘♀️❤️
📌 Classes will resume on January 5th 2026.
13/12/2025
Part of my Art of Gathering series, where the food is simple and quick so you have more time for the important connections. Here’s a cosy, nourishing favourite straight from Kate O’Donnell’s Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook—adapted perfectly for the Instant Pot. It’s one of those recipes you can pop on in the morning and return to at lunchtime for something warm, soothing, and deeply satisfying. Ideal for busy days when you still want an Ayurvedic, grounding meal.
🥄 Red Pumpkin Dal 🍵
Ingredients:
1 cup red lentil or split mung beans
3 cups water
1 can coconut milk
2–3 cups cubed pumpkin or butternut squash
1–2 tbsp winter spice mix (ingredients in a post earlier today)
Directions:
🌱 Pressure cook for 5 minutes in your Instant Pot (or rring to a boil in a pan, then reduce to a simmer. Cover and cook for 25–30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the lentils and squash are soft)
🌱 Hand-blend if you want it really smooth.
🌱 Serve with a sprinkle of toasted coconut.
13/12/2025
✨ The Art of Gathering | Winter Spice Mix ✨
This is part of my Art of Gathering series — where we spend less time in the kitchen and more time with friends, conversation, and connection. Simple food, thoughtfully prepared.
Welcome winter spices. ❄️
In Ayurveda, winter welcomes salt, sweet, and sour tastes, and this warming blend brings all of that together beautifully. Winter is the season to be generous with spices, and I always keep a jar of this one close by.
It’s perfect sprinkled over potatoes, roasted vegetables, or stirred into a nourishing red pumpkin or butternut squash dal (which I’ll be sharing later this evening).
🌿 Winter Spice Mix (adapted from Kate O’Donnell, with a couple of tweaks)
Ingredients:
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tbsp cumin seeds
1 tbsp fennel seeds
1 tbsp turmeric powder
½ tsp salt
½ tsp brown sugar
1 tsp ginger powder
1 tsp black pepper (optional)
Directions:
Dry-roast the coriander, cumin, and fennel seeds in a heavy-bottomed pan over medium heat until fragrant. Allow to cool completely. Add the remaining ingredients and grind to a uniform powder using a spice-dedicated coffee grinder or mortar and pestle. Store in a small glass jar.
A little jar of warmth that turns everyday meals into something grounding, nourishing, and shared — just as winter invites us to do. 🍂
12/12/2025
As we settle into mid-December, there’s a natural pause in the air — an invitation to soften, to slow, and to notice what truly matters. 🫶
You don’t need to have everything figured out right now. Just keep showing up with gentleness, for yourself and for the people you love.
This month, let the noise fall away a little.
Add warmth where you can.
Let simple rituals feel restorative.
And trust that rest is not a delay — it’s nourishment. 🙏
09/12/2025
🌙 Evening Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massages – Limited December Slots 🌿
If evenings are the only time you can make it, I have just four appointments left this month:
If you’re recovering from injury or want to prevent recurrence, Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage can support tissue healing, improve joint mobility, and realign your body through gentle traction and assisted yoga postures.
🌱 It’s a therapeutic partner on your wellness path. 🌱
✨ Restmas has officially begun at Pranadi ✨
And this year, we're embracing it a little differently…
Every December I notice the same thing:
❄️ We want to rest… but life has other ideas.
❄️ Errands, events, spirals of festive chaos — and somehow, in the middle of it all, rest still finds these tiny moments to sneak in.
So this year, instead of fighting it, I’m leaning into it.
For Pranadi Restmas, I’ll be sharing gentle, playful “rest rules” each week — nothing serious, nothing strict — just simple reminders to help you notice rest when it naturally appears.
This week’s Restmas rule:
✨ Anywhere counts! 📣
If you catch yourself taking a quiet moment of stillness — even in the most unlikely places — that counts as Restmas magic.
✨ Legs flopped over the sofa.
✨ A quiet pause mid-errand.
✨ A moment of stillness between the to-dos.
Not perfect.
Not planned.
Just real — and often exactly what the nervous system needs during a busy month.
Give yourself permission to rest wherever rest meets you.
✨ December Classes at Pranadi:
Full details & booking at pranadi.co.uk
🧘♀️ Tuesday 9th December – Gentle Hatha
🔥 Thursday 11th December – Core Rasa Vinyasa
🌿 Sunday 14th December – Gentle Somatic Movement
🌙 Monday 15th December – Hatha Yoga
🧘♂️ Tuesday 16th December – Gentle Hatha
💎 Friday 19th December – Christmas Deep Rest: Yin Yoga & Crystal Healing
🎄 Sunday 21st December – 12 Days of Christmas Yoga Special
07/12/2025
A huge thank you to Richard and Lesley from Peopertree Studio for delivering such a fabulous introduction to silver clay jewellery making today. ✨
All eight of us had an absolutely brilliant time — lots of laughter, creativity, and mindful making. We’re all heading home with beautiful handmade pieces that were meant as gifts for others, but we’ve all decided to keep them for ourselves. 🤣
Your guidance, patience and passion made the workshop truly special.
Can’t wait for the next one! 💍✨
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03/12/2025
Struggling with poor sleep or restlessness? This therapeutic massage has helped many to sleep more deeply, calm the mind, and restore balance.
✨ Imagine a healing session that supports rest AND recovery. ✨
In last night’s gentle Hatha yoga class, we explored two different breathing patterns — noticing how each one can feel completely different depending on your own body and nervous system.
So often we hear techniques like 4–7–8 breath described as a universal fix for stress or anxiety. But the truth is, not every breathing ratio works for every body or every nervous system.
I recently read a story shared by Kristine of Subtle Yoga about a student who had been prescribed 4–7–8 breath after a traumatic health experience. Instead of calming her, it caused her heart to race and her anxiety to increase — leaving her feeling like she was somehow “doing it wrong.”
When she tried a gentler pattern — 4–2–6 breath — her whole experience changed. She immediately felt more settled, more grounded, more herself.
This is why, in class last night, we experimented with both:
✨ 4–7–8 (a strong down-regulating breath that can feel too intense for some)
✨ 4–2–6 (a softer, often more accessible calming pattern)
PATTERN: INHALE // HOLD // EXHALE
The lesson?
Your breath is personal.
Your nervous system is unique.
There is no breathing cure-all.
In yoga, we don’t force ourselves into techniques — we listen to what truly supports us. If a pattern doesn’t feel good in your body, it simply isn’t the right one for you in that moment. And that’s not failure — that’s wisdom.
Breathwork is never a one-size-fits-all practice. For some people, certain ratios can soothe and soften; for others, the very same pattern can increase anxiety or feel overwhelming. Your breath is deeply personal, and honouring what feels right for you is at the heart of all mindful practice.
This is also why breath awareness is such an important part of my therapeutic Ayurvedic yoga massages. When the breath is supported — not forced — the body can drop more safely into relaxation, tension can release more naturally, and the nervous system can shift into a state of genuine rest and repair.
May your breath be a place of compassion, curiosity, and choice my lovely friends.
🫶🌿
02/12/2025
🌿 Massage Appointments Available Tomorrow 🌿
If your body has been asking for a reset, this is your sign. I have massage appointments available tomorrow - perfect for easing tension, soothing stress, and giving your nervous system the deep support it’s been craving.
Whether you need therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage, energy work, or simply some time to breathe… I’ve got space for you. 💛
📅 Appointments available tomorrow
💻 Book online: pranadi.co.uk/appointments
📲 Or message me directly to book
Give yourself (or someone you love) the gift of feeling better. ✨
01/12/2025
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✨ Many clients leave feeling lighter in heart and more connected to themselves. ✨
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PRANA – Is a Sanskrit word that translates as ‘vital life force energy’. This is also known as Qi, Ki, Chi and other names across different cultures and is the Universal consciousness that links us all. Think of ReiKI and Tai CHI.
Prana rides on our breath, so when we breath in, we take in prana. In Yoga, Prana is the practice of expanding and improving this life force energy by completing postures (known as Asanas) and by implementing the breathing technique known as Pranayama. When the energy flow is blocked then this is when disease can manifest. So by practicing Yoga regularly and being Reiki attuned or going for a Reiki treatment; these can combine and assist with your wellbeing on emotional, spiritual and physical levels.
NADI – Running throughout our physical body are the nadis (nadi, singular), which ultimately form the energy transportation system of the physical body. Like a river flows through the banks, prana flows through the nadis. The Sanksrit word ‘nadi’ derives from the root ‘nad’, which means ‘flow’, ‘motion’, or ‘vibration’. The word itself suggest that the fundamental nature of a nadi is to flow like water, finding the path of least resistance and nourishing everything in its path.
In yoga, the practice of asana and pranayama is intended to cleanse the nadis, thereby allowing prana to flow freely throughout the body.
So that is why I merged the two words into PRANADI as a concept of what I do, by bringing together my energy work and offering a way of bringing Mind, Body and Spirit together in a Holistic approach to living.
This is also shown in my logo that has meditation as the centre in a lotus flower and is surrounded by the five elements of Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Space (Aether).
I’m passionate about PRANADI and are aware we are all on our own path and take ownership for our own healing and health, but want to build through REIKI & YOGA a COMMUNITY that supports the WELLBEING of self and others.
My online interactive Yoga classes are hosted via Zoom on a PAYG basis or through one of our membership options. Anyone with an active membership can join our private Facebook group where we regularly interact and support each other (details of free events are also posted here).
