Maria Blake Murphy Lifestyle Coach/Yoga Instructor

10/11/2025

If a weekly yoga class is difficult to commit to, why not try a mini retreat.
This is a nervous system reset.
Being busy and always preparing for the next thing keeps our nervous system on high alert. You cant think you're way out of it. You need to improve the environment inside. Tools like conscious breathing, yoga nidra and movement to challenge you in a safe environment, all encourage the nervous system to swith to rest mode.
All protection happens in fight/flight
All healing happens in rest/digest

This reset will help you build flexibility and resilience in body, mind & spirit. You're natural state of ease, calm, joy & curiosity emerges when the alert system is soothed.






Maria Blake Murphy Lifestyle Coach/Yoga Instructor

20/10/2025

14/10/2025

I've added a morning Yoga class to the schedule. I know it can be difficult to make the choice to put your needs before others but it's is essential if you want to feel OK in the world.
Once your yoga practice becomes a habit, the benefits become obvious very quickly.
You feel stronger in your body and more connected to how it moves. You understand more the messages that it is sending you.
An awareness of what is keeping you stick emerges and you find yourself making new choices
You begin to like yourself a little bit more.
So then you won't stop.

Once you feel different, you behave differently, you make different choices and you build a different life.

The hardest part is to show up to the mat. The rest just happens organically.

Limited spaces available so booking is essential

Location : P12FA49
Date: 22nd October at 10am
Duration: 6 weeks
Investment: €75

10/10/2025

I know the habit is to judge and criticise. It is in our DNA to want to better ourselves, to grow our consciousness, to become who we came here to be.

How do you help a child to grow and develop?
How do you make sure that they never give up?

You encourage them when they fall down down.
You reward them for the small moments of growth.
You love them no matter what.

Think of all you have done today already that deserves acknowledgement.

09/10/2025

Make how YOU feel your priority and watch how your decision-making changes.

The moment you choose YOU, no excuses will cut it. You're now unstoppable

08/10/2025

My next Nervous System reset is coming. 21st Nov at 7.30pm

You can not think your way put of overwhelm and nervous system disregulation. It is your thinking that has got you there in the first place. But you can move and breathe your way into a more regulated, resilient place.
You can eat all the good food, take the supplements, and do the exercise, but none of them will matter if you anchored in a space of protection.
All protection happens in fight/flight mode
All healing happens in rest/digest mode.

No healing happens in fight/flight mode. Your body is not concerned with digesting and detoxing when it thinks that it is being chased by a wild animal.

This reset will help your nervous system to understand that you are safe, and then you will feel safe.

It's a small group, so booking is essential

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07/10/2025

I've noticed something

People come to my yoga class for many reasons. To be more flexible, to be stronger, to look better, to tame the monkey mind, etc.

When they arrive in their mat for the first time, they are nervous, unsure what to expect, on high alert, feeling self conscious.

After training their awareness to go where i invite them, their breath, sensations in the body, the story in their mind, they manage to step out of the role they have been playing and simply observe.

It doesn't take much energy to look. The body does need to brace when you are not involved, and so rest and healing is switched on. You feel more connected to you, to those around you, and with time to something bigger than you.

And so savasana is where they get to just be, without all the conditioning.

The reason that students come back week after week is because that feeling in savasana feels like home. It feels like you have just taken off a big heavy rucksack that was dragging you down. You feel lighter, calmer, more content.

Most importantly, you feel empowered because you now know that you can change how you feel without changing any of the conditions in your life.

They came thinking they needed to fix something externally and discovered their internal power.

06/10/2025

Our thinking mind keeps us from the present moment. Our 10-step plan for everything keeps us trapped in our small world.

There is a bigger world that the one we make up in our mind and it wants you to trust the process.

If you think you know where you are going, you are in the thinking mind.

When you let go of the need to know, you are in touch with all that is.

06/10/2025

2 spaces left in Ballineen
1 space left in Carrigadrohid

06/10/2025

8 WEEK RESET begins this evening.

This is an opportunity to see things as they are, not as you wish they were. With open eyes, you can see how you are being and how you are sabotaging yourself on a daily basis.
It's not another distraction to keep you asleep. It's a wake-up call to step into your body, your heart, your life.
1 space has just come available, so message to book.

Love Maria

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04/10/2025

You dont have to believe your thoughts. In fact, I recommend that you ignore them.

Remind yourself that you just made it up & have a giggle.
Then move on with doing stuff you enjoy.

Life is much simpler than your mind has led you to believe.

coach coach

03/10/2025

Now is all there is

Anything you want to do, you can only do it NOW.
Any memories you have, you are remembering them NOW.
Any plans for the future, you are planning them NOW

Whatever you are curious about, contemplating, creating - Do it NOW

Being ready is not a feeling, you cannot FEEL ready.

You are ready NOW