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Guiding you home to your body through somatic movement, yoga, sound, ritual & nervous system healing.

A sanctuary for embodied living, self-awareness & soulful transformation. ✨

21/01/2026

I thought I was healing my nervous system, but I actually just put my fire out. 🔥

Living life in the “fast lane”, the constant doing, the lack of balance, & living out of alignment, made my body go into a state of total shutdown. I ended up in the hospital experiencing intense pain & worsening symptoms. My system had reached its limit & simply turned the lights out to protect itself.

So when I took a step back to focus on healing & balancing my nervous system, I swung the pendulum as far as it would go the other way.

I chose everything slow. I chose everything quiet.
I leaned so hard into rest that I accidentally became stagnant.

It wasn’t until a questionnaire during my Yoga Teacher Training that the lightbulb finally went off.

The results showed I was significantly lacking in the fire element. While I was busy trying to re-regulate & stay calm, I had lost my spark.

I felt heavy. I felt a bit gray.
I had balanced the scales, but then I let them tip too far into the shadows.

Ayurveda reminds us that we are made of all five elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, & Ether), & true health is the dance between them. I realized that for me, regulation doesn’t always mean a weighted blanket & a cup of herbal tea.

Sometimes, regulation looks like a sweaty strength session to feel my own power. A kitchen dance party where I’m being completely ridiculous. Dynamic movement that makes my heart beat a little faster. Play, silliness, & heat.

Healing isn’t just about slowing down; it’s about coming back to life.

Have you ever leaned so far into resting that you felt like you lost your spark?

Sometimes I think it’s a necessary part of the journey, it’s when we feel like we’ve been buried that I fact we’ve actually been planted- these darker slower times are when we deepen and strengthen our roots.

16/01/2026

If you think you’re “bad at yoga” because you can’t touch your toes, I have a secret for you:

Only a tiny part of yoga is about Asana- the postures.

When I first started, I thought the goal was the pose.
I thought the “yoga” happened in those 60 minutes on the mat.
But as I’ve gone deeper into my studies, I’ve fallen in love with the 8 Limbs of Yoga.

Think of them as a compass for living a peaceful, soulful life. Only one of the eight limbs is actually about the physical postures (Asana).

The rest? They are about how we treat people, how we breathe, and how we find stillness in a world that never stops shouting.

Here is a little glimpse into the map:
1️⃣ Yamas: How we treat the world (Kindness & Truth). 2️⃣ Niyamas: How we treat ourselves (Purity & Contentment).
3️⃣ Asana: The physical movement (Preparing the body to sit still).
4️⃣ Pranayama: Mastering our life force through breath. 5️⃣ Pratyahara: Turning our focus inward (Unplugging from the noise).
6️⃣ Dharana: Concentration (Focusing on one thing at a time).
7️⃣ Dhyana: Meditation (The flow of awareness).
8️⃣ Samadhi: Connection (Feeling at one with everything).

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Learning this was such a relief for me. It meant that on the days my body feels too tired for a Vinyasa flow, I can still “do yoga” by practicing kindness toward a stranger or by taking three deep, conscious breaths while the kettle boils.

It’s not a performance; it’s a practice of coming home to yourself.

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to share how I’m weaving each of these into my daily life, the messy parts, the beautiful parts, and everything in between. 🕊️

Yoga is for everyone, no matter what body you’re living in.

📸- taken by the lovely 🙏🏽

13/01/2026

This morning, a tea bag burst all over the side I had JUST cleaned…

Not so long ago, this could have been the “final straw.” I’d have felt my blood pressure suddenly rise, a few F-words would have flown out, and I probably would have decided the whole day was “ruined” before it even started.

But today? I just looked at the tea leaves sprinkled over the side, said “Oh… alrighty then,” wiped it up, and made a new cup.

That right there? That is what a regulated nervous system actually looks like. 🧠✨

It’s not about being a Zen monk who never gets frustrated. It’s not about living a life where things don’t go wrong. It’s about the recovery time.

Regulation is the ability to meet a “glitch” in your day without your body going into a full-scale “fight or flight” response.

It’s having enough space inside yourself to realize that a burst tea bag is just a burst tea bag- not a personal attack from the universe.

I’ve spent a long time learning how to widen that space. Through breath, through boundaries, and through understanding my body’s triggers.

And honestly? Cleaning up tea leaves feels a lot lighter when your heart isn’t racing.

If you’re still in the “F-bomb” stage of your journey, please know that’s okay. Your nervous system is just trying to protect you. But I promise, with a little gentleness, those “alrighty then” moments start to happen more and more often. 🕊️

27/12/2025

The kind of energy I’m manifesting for 2026.

17/12/2025

Our sixth and final shortlisted poem for our Competition is from Nilay, a Year 10 student at The Pendlebury Centre in Stockport.

‼️ A like, share or comment is worth one vote each. Votes across all platforms will be counted to determine the winners.

You can also vote on our Instagram and X / Twitter pages!

🏆 Voting closes at midnight on Sunday 4th January.

Good luck, Nilay! ❄️ 🎄

30/11/2025

As some of you may be aware, I recently had a major health event that made me reassess absolutely everything.

My Endo & fibro has been flaring over the last few months & it all culminated in a haemorrhagic cyst rupture that landed me in hospital. An overnight stay away from my babies, them witnessing me screaming in agony, tied to tubes, injected and assessed, uncertainty as to what or why... The pain was unlike anything I’d ever experienced before,my nervous system was screaming.
I’d been ignoring my body’s cues to slow down & contradicting the very advice I’d give to others. I was pushing through for fear of being seen as inferior or weak & it all became too much for my body to bear.

I had to make a really tough decision: to step down from my role within the amazing women’s empowerment events business I’d been a part of, 🙏🏽 to focus purely on my own healing, & therefore the development and organic growth of The Wellness Space.

This space is now dedicated to my journey back to self, using somatic movement, embodied dance, yoga & sound to regulate my nervous system, release what no longer serves, & truly listen to my body’s wisdom.

A journal of what I’m learning & embodying.

I’m forever grateful for the amazing skills I’ve learned over the years & the beautiful humans I’ve connected with, but it’s time I focus on me, my family, my health, & see how life unfolds.

This space is for those of you who want to feel true embodiment, who want to feel seen, who maybe have chronic pain, suffer with Endometriosis, PMDD, Fibromyalgia, migraines, or maybe you’re just passionate about yoga, community, somatic work & embodied movement?

I’m confident there will be something for everyone to relate to here: self-growth, reflection, revelation, health awareness, mental health support, yoga, sound therapy, somatic & embodied movement... It’s all going to be shared in this Wellness Space.

Thank you for being here, for supporting me in this space. Im excited to see how this journey unfolds but I am not rushing to find out.
Healing takes time, presence, awareness & softness.
No hustle, game plan or rushing.
Just pure embodiment.

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