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03/12/2025
🌕 Gemini Full Moon Meditation
Tomorrow’s moon invites us into the dance of duality—
two perspectives, one truth.
Two sides of the self, illuminated under the same silver light.
This meditation is a moment to pause, breathe, and let the moon reveal what’s shifting within you…
the truths ready to be spoken,
the stories ready to be released,
the clarity rising from your own inner winds.
Breathe with the air of Gemini.
Soften into stillness.
Let the light find you.
Let what’s true rise.
Tap into your moonlit insight, your spacious mind, and your heart’s quiet wisdom. 🌬️🌕✨
02/12/2025
✨ Stillness & Savouring — Blue Lotus Style ✨
There’s nothing quite like a room full of grown adults doing a food-blessing rhyme to The Addams Family… complete with finger-clicks and belly laughs.
Da-da-da-dum (click-click)
But behind the fun is something powerful.
At our retreat this weekend, we practiced what the Yoga teachings always remind us: intention turns the ordinary sacred.
Taking 30 seconds to pause before a meal isn’t about perfection or ritual for ritual’s sake — it’s a gentle reset. A moment to say:
“I’m here. I’m grateful. I’m receiving this nourishment with awareness, not autopilot.”
And science agrees: gratitude literally shifts the brain into a more resourceful, regulated state — lowering stress, boosting serotonin, and widening our capacity to savour what’s already here rather than chasing what’s next.
Which matters especially now…
When Christmas pressure whispers that “more stuff” equals more joy.
We chose the opposite:
Stillness. Savouring. Community. Presence.
And yes — plenty of clicking fingers.
Here’s to letting gratitude be our rebellion this season.
🌿💙 Da-da-da-dum… (click-click).
27/11/2025
A lovely afternoon wrapped in friendship, artistry, and pure joy.
Matthew Bourne’s Red Shoes at The Lowry swept us away—breathtaking costumes, inspired choreography, stunning staging, and dancers who carried every emotion across the stage.
Moments like this nourish the soul and remind us why we need more of them.
& 2026 needs more dates in the diary for sure. ✨💙
24/11/2025
🎄✨ Festive Yoga Brunch — Let’s end the year together!
On Sunday 7th December, we gather for a joyful morning of movement, connection, delicious food & Gemini Full Moon magic.
After a feel-good lunar flow, we’ll sit down to a luxurious festive brunch — Eggs Benedict, smashed avo, poke bowls, omelettes… plus a Mimosa to bring the sparkle.
These mornings are warm, uplifting, nourishing and full of heart — and I’d love you to be part of the final one of 2025.
✨ Link to book — spaces are limited.
Let’s flow, feast, and celebrate the season together.
Some days I feel steady and rooted… and other days I feel like I’m moving through fog. Midlife has its own tides — tender, hormonal, beautiful, bewildering — and I’m learning to let all of it belong.
Yoga has taught me that life isn’t meant to be perfected, only lived. Some days the practice is deep and soulful; other days it’s simply remembering to breathe, soften my shoulders, or make myself a nourishing meal. And that’s enough.
I’m sharing this because I never want any woman to feel alone in the ebb and flow. Our bodies, our seasons, our stories — they all shift. And there is so much wisdom in the shifting.
If you’re having one of those days, here are a few of the things that help me come home to myself:
• A slow, breath-led flow — even just 10 minutes
• Stepping outside and feeling the weather on my skin
• Making something warm and nourishing
• Lighting a candle and creating a moment of sacred pause
• Calling a friend who sees me
• A cup of tea and complete silence
• Writing what’s true for me today
• Putting on soft music and moving in the way my body asks
• Sitting on the floor, hand on my heart, and remembering I don’t need to be “on”
Wherever you are today — be gentle.
You’re allowed to ebb, flow, soften, wander, and begin again.
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Empowering you to transform your self-doubt into courage and unlock your potential & power with myths, ritual and sacred practice.
I started practising Yoga in a community class out in the wilds of Canada, where I had gone to live a simple outdoors life with my first great love. I found it such a grounding and nourishing practise that, when my beloved was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I shared the basic techniques that I had learnt for relaxation and pain management with him - and, despite his initial scepticism, they proved to be a great help to both of us.
It was during this time that I really began to discover the practise of yoga as a way to heal, as opposed to being merely a form of 'keep-fit'. Sadly, in 2001, he passed, and in the year that followed I used Yoga, in conjunction with immersing in nature, as a tool for my own personal healing.
It was in 2002 that I felt called to take the first of my many Teacher Trainings. Since that time I have had the privilege of studying with many inspirational teachers, including Shiva Rea, Tias Little, Doug Keller, Mukunda Stiles, Julie Gudmestad and Donna Fahri. In the last 8 years I have studied with Sianna Sherman and am a graduate of the first intake of her 300 Hour Rasa Yoga Advanced Teacher Training course.
I obviously love to learn and gain knowledge, but for me, the real pleasure comes from sharing and witnessing how yoga makes a real difference to peoples' lives. In addition to teaching my own classes I also teach on the Yogacampus, Manchester 200 hour Teacher Training Course. It is my absolute joy to see the trainee teachers flourish and thrive.
My passionate and heartfelt belief is the practise of Yoga is a powerful tool for facilitating healing and transformation on all levels, physical, emotional and energetic, is this founded on personal experience and observation. This belief is at the heart of each and every Yoga offering I share.
My classes are a creative and fluid inter-weaving of relatable philosophy, story telling, alignment based asana, through which I seek to empower my students and introduce them to Yoga as a way to help deal with life's challenges - however great or small. Yoga cannot remove the pain or lessen the challenging times, but it can give us a greater capacity and resilience to deal with life's up and downs. I truly believe yoga is for everyone and I teach in a way that encourages and supports Every Body.
Yoga continues to teach me so much about myself - it helps to empower me when I feel fear, it helps me to trust when I feel doubtful and it helps me to be present and at peace, even when there is chaos all around!! I can honestly say that Yoga has brought me so much inner strength, joy and bliss and changed my life in so many ways. I am excited to continue to share these incredible practices that can awaken spirit and help you to live your best life!
