Rest & Rite

23/12/2025

Wishing you all peace and presence this festive season 🕯️
Whether you’re surrounded by loved ones, enjoying precious time to rest, or working to keep our communities running – thank you for all you do.
I know this time of year isn’t easy for everyone. If the festivities feel heavy, please be gentle with yourself. There’s no ‘right’ way to move through these days.
However you’re spending this season, I hope you find moments of stillness, warmth, and kindness – especially towards yourself.
I’m back to work on Monday 29th December if you’d like to book in for some restorative support as we close out the year.
With gratitude and love
Alev

P.s thank you for my very last minute surprise hair cut 🥰 feel like I’m ready to move into new year already 🙏

21/12/2025

The darkest night holds the promise of returning light ✨
Today we honour the Winter Solstice—the longest night of the year and nature’s reminder that even in our deepest darkness, the light is already turning back towards us.
This isn’t about forcing positivity or rushing towards brightness. It’s about honouring where we are right now. Resting in the stillness. Trusting the cycles.
Just as the earth doesn’t apologise for winter, we don’t need to apologise for our own seasons of retreat and restoration.

What are you honouring today? What are you ready to release as the light begins its slow return?
🕯️ Light a candle
🌲 Step outside, even briefly
🫖 Brew something warm
📝 Write what you’re ready to let go of
The wheel turns. The light returns.
Happy Solstice 🌑➡️🌞

18/12/2025

**Christmas opening times 🕯️✨🎄**

(🎁Vouchers Available)

I know this time of year can be tough. Between the expectations, the busyness, and everything we carry into the festive season, it’s easy to forget that we need looking after too.

I’m here throughout December for anyone who needs some space to breathe, reset, and soften.

**Closed 23-28 December**

Book by sending a WhatsApp to 02035008083 or DM me directly.

You don’t have to wait until you’re running on empty. Taking care of yourself now isn’t selfish – it’s essential.

Sending you gentleness this season 💚

14/12/2025

🎁 Who said vouchers were boring!!

❤️I love a voucher it gives me choice and flexibility and tells me the person giving it to me cares about my wellness

🎁 R&R Gift Vouchers can be redeemed against meditation workshops or private sessions ranging from massage, reiki or breathwork & meditation coaching

📞 Contact me here or via website/ WhatsApp to purchase yours

12/12/2025

A reminder for everyone 🫶🏼

09/12/2025

If you or someone you know is not into woo woo noo problem 😂
Show them this 💚

Book in a session and see for yourself (I promise not to levitate or call in the ghost of Christmas past)😃
If you want to read a very sciency book on “why woo woo works” I highly recommend the book of the same name by David R Hamilton 🙌

07/12/2025

07/12/2025

*worth the slightly longer read* ☕️ 🫶🏼
When Healing Becomes Performance
After nearly twenty years in drama education, I know a thing or two about performance. I’ve watched young people transform on stage, embody characters, find their voices through the art of showing. Performance has its place – it’s powerful, necessary even.
I’ve performed my own poetry at spoken word events, shared work that felt raw and true. But I didn’t need the audience, not really. I just needed to hear my own words out loud. It was cathartic, but it wasn’t about showing off. The events gave me a container, a reason to finish the poem, to stand up and speak it into being. But the healing happened in the writing, in the speaking – not in the witnessing.
That’s what I want my work to offer others – not a stage for their healing, but a container for it. A vehicle of support for their journey if they need it. The breathwork sessions, the massage treatments, the journaling workshops – these are structures that give you permission to do your own quiet, unseeable work.
But healing itself? Healing isn’t meant for an audience.
Lately I’ve noticed how the language of wellness has become strangely theatrical. We curate our growth. We showcase our breakthroughs. We narrate our healing journeys as if they’re meant to be witnessed, validated, applauded.
And I understand the impulse. I really do. When you’re in pain, when you’re working so hard to feel better, there’s something compelling about making that work visible. About proving – to others, to yourself – that you’re doing the work.

05/12/2025

💙The words I didn’t say. The truth I held back to keep the peace. And now, a sore throat.
After a difficult conversation with my teenage son last night, I woke up with that familiar scratch. But here’s what I’ve learned: sometimes our bodies speak what we won’t allow ourselves to say.

I’ve written about healing on every level – breathwork, meditation, and how to honour your voice this festive season.
Read the full post below 💙
www.restandrite.com/blog-2-1

01/12/2025

Final workshops of the year
Let’s celebrate together, give thanks and welcome in an even better 2026.
Book your place now!

01/12/2025

Yes I use my hands a lot to communicate 😂
After all communication is at least 70% non verbal!
Today we explored the “I AM”
When so much of modern day society, tradition, religion, culture is designed to disconnect us from who we are we much learn how to reconnect without ourselves…
I can’t promise it will gf easy, there may be tears, but I can promise it’ll be worth it.

A big thank you for inviting he to deliver this session and for the amazing ing group of women who made a commitment to do something for THEMSELVES 🫶🏼