A Way to Live Well

17/11/2025

Interestingly most of our everyday fears aren’t instinctual, we learned them.

Beyond the obvious ways in which yoga asana helps in the physical sense…supporting the brain in exploring movement, uncertainty, balance and new challenges.

Yoga also invites us into svādhyāya (self-study).

Svādhyāya isn’t about analysing yourself into the ground, or trying to solve your emotions.
It’s learning to observe without becoming overwhelmed by the experience.
To notice the texture of fear in your body, where it lives, how it rises, what story it chooses that day. It’s a practice of becoming curious.

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05/11/2025

Someone said to me once, “you seem to think your feelings”.
Believe it or not I used to think that was a compliment. I thought being good at controlling your emotions and protecting your heart was an excellent skill.

And actually…it was… I was a pro at rationalising my emotions, shoving them down, escaping them whenever it suited me.
And the wild thing is, at some point I didn’t even know I was doing it.

So much of that was just not having the language to describe what was happening inside, and not having any kind of blueprint for what to do with those really challenging feelings, in order to be with them in my body.

What I’ve learned through this work is that interoceptive awareness which is this ability to sense and feel our inner world isn’t something that happens overnight. It’s slow. It’s layered. It actually takes a lot of time, support, and safety to integrate.

And that’s only one piece of the puzzle, but it’s one of the first and most foundational pieces.

So if you’re not where you want to be yet, that’s okay.
You’re not behind. You’re just in process.

02/11/2025

A part of healing is actually a process of remembering our own humanness.

The part of us that can turn inward, feel what’s happening, and respond with care and compassion.
Exploring and listening to the inner landscape is where real change begins.

This is your invitation to Woven, a four-week journey blending yoga, somatic practices to help you reconnect with your body’s natural intelligence.

Woven begins 6th of November 8-9pm Online, join our group of women as we explore what it means to feel at home in your own nervous system.
Join us via the link in bio or message me if you’d like to know more.

23/10/2025

Remember the language of your body,
the subtle sensation beneath all the holding.
Learn to listen more deeply.
Unravel what you’ve been carrying,
Reclaim your capacity for rest,
for movement that feels like devotion,
for stillness that restores.
Meet your nervous system with compassion and
learn its rhythms, its thresholds, its ways of keeping you safe.
Come home to the parts of you that never needed fixing 
only witnessing.

Woven is a four-week journey for women.
Through yoga philosophy and somatic practice.
We explore the nervous system through the gunas 
and the art of living in alignment with your own natural rhythm.

We begin November 6th.
4 online sessions
✨ To join, comment woven and I’ll send you the link.
Investment : £60

14/10/2025

Your worth doesn’t shrink or expand based on how others see you.
It lives underneath it all, it is steady, whole and waiting to be remembered.

I wrote about this in my latest newsletter how systems shape our sense of value, and how we can reconnect with our worth through the body, through awareness, through compassion.

💌 You can read it or subscribe via the link in bio.

13/10/2025

We’re all born with inherent worth and value but living within systems can make us forget.

Pay gaps, hierarchies, expectations, labels… they tell a story about our value that is often not true.

Your worth isn’t something to prove or earn.
It’s who you are beneath the noise.

Woven is a 4-week journey for women, it is a blend of yoga philosophy and somatic practices to support your nervous system, explore our patterns, and remember your inherent worth.

Begins November 6th 8pm
Online

Comment ‘Woven’ and I’ll send you a link to book.

Can’t wait to see you there!

06/10/2025

We are responsible for how we show up, but we can not control, nor should we try to control how others respond.

This is piece of wisdom I’m often reminding myself.

Managing other people’s emotions, or feeling responsible for other people’s reactions is an exhausting habit.

But if you had to manage a volatile care giver or circumstances that felt insecure in your formative years this way of being may have been exactly what you needed.

However, when it becomes our default way of being, it can be exhausting and disconnecting.

In Woven Online, we’ll explore how these behaviours take root, how they show up in the body before the mind, and how to begin changing the pattern through somatic, movement and yoga philosophy.

Woven Online – Begins November 6th, 8pm (every Thursday for 4 weeks)

Type ‘Woven’ for the link to join💚

20/09/2025

08/09/2025

This weeks newsletter I’m reflecting on how yogic traditions and neuroscience approach the same mysteries of the body–mind from different directions.

It’s not really a one versus the other kind of thing…

When we place them side by side, new layers of understanding emerge.🧘‍♀️🧠

Read the full reflection in my latest email 💌 — link in stories

11/08/2025

You can read the full post on my substack.
This is where I’ve been sharing weekly insights and resources lately.

I’ve been trying to keep it simple for myself and hopefully create a nourishing space where you can find all the latest podcast interviews, nervous system regulation resources and much more.

11/08/2025

Sometimes what we say and what we mean aren’t the same.
We may have learned to downplay our pain, and sometimes this is a way of protecting ourselves.

You’re allowed to let someone hold it with you.

08/08/2025

Have you ever overheard yourself saying something like…

“It wasn’t that bad.”
“Other people had it worse.”
“I should just be grateful.”

In times when so many in the world are experiencing profound hardship, it can feel wrong or even selfish to acknowledge our own pain.

This is an invitation to notice the patterns that show up for us, regardless of the circumstances we’re in.

These kinds of statements can seem like gratitude or humility, but they could be a strategy that may have been helpful at one point but may also contribute to feelings of disconnection. We might really be saying…

“I don’t want to be a burden.”

“Other people’s pain matters more than mine.”

“I’ve learned to carry this alone.”

“I don’t trust that you’ll be able to hold what I’m carrying.”

These beliefs are often formed in environments where our emotional world wasn’t met with understanding. When our feelings were dismissed or invalidated, we learned to downplay them, even to ourselves.

Both things can be true. We can care deeply for the pain in our global community, offering help where we can, and we can also allow ourselves to be held in our own struggles.

You can read more over on my substack.