Anam Pilates & Wellness

14/11/2025

Samhain 🧡

As much as I have always promised myself I would embrace this darker season, I have never quite mastered it. I have often spent it, wishing it away, pining for the brightness. This year has been so full of so much that the call to sink inward and allow myself to be wrapped in the cloak of The Cailleach could not be ignored. I have sunk into daily meditation and writing, slower movement at times, immersing myself in the words of wonderful Manchán Magan, connecting deeply with the land and offering myself Reiki.

The practice of this has been a gift. It has been a chance to turn down the noise and reconnect to my heart and to the wisdom of my body. I realised how disconnected from myself I have been. I have not been able to discern whether what I have been putting out has been truly me, or has it been what I thought might please people. I want to be sure that what I am sharing or offering is a valuable contribution and is rooted wholeheartedly in love. Time is passing, and it feels important to me not to waste it.

I would love to invite you to share in embracing the potent energy of Samhain with me. As much as practising on my own holds its own magic, I adore sharing space for mindfulness and movement. I would love to facilitate an online space on Friday mornings 6.45-7.15am from Samhain to Solstice, and you are so warmly invited.

This will be a space for slowness, presence, gratitude, reflection, and connection. What do we need to shed, to allow to to die, decompose, compost in order to rebirth.

Comment or send me a message to join this container

Bigí linn

03/11/2025

30/10/2025

Samhain sunset over Lough Ennell 🧡

I sat, as the wind whipped around me, staring at such beauty, letting the sound of the water wash over me. Totally present, ready to surrender.

I always struggle with the shorter days. I get more anxious as the darkness settles around us. This year however, something feels different. I feel myself being drawn into the cloak of the Cailleach.

So much has happened this year. I want to sink inward and examine the multitudes that exist within me. I am ready for darkness and want to be enveloped by it so that I can re-emerge when the light returns and Brigid's fire roars, full of the wisdom gifted to me by winter.

22/10/2025

Who is she? I don't know fully! I look at this picture and see the grey hairs that I have decided to allow to come through and be seen at last. I see the wrinkles around my mouth and eyes. For a moment, I honestly thought that I had one of those make yourself old filters on. But I don't. I am almost 45. That scares me because I still feel like I am trying to find me feet in life, but time is going so quickly that I worry I won't get to do all I want to, won't get to offer out everything I want, won't get to be of service like I want to be.

I am so deep in liminality right now that I can't seem to grasp how to do all that I want to. It feels like it has been a year of tumbling through life, just trying to survive the roller coaster.

Three years ago, when I left employment to work for myself, I honestly believed that I was going to be a super successful entrepreneur. I didn't realise I had held that belief, really, until two days ago. It didn't work out that way, and I am sitting with all of the emotions that that brings.

I no longer feel like the same woman that started Anam Pilates & Wellness. It doesn't feel like me anymore, and yet, I don't quite know what does feel like me. I still want to offer all that I have been, and I will. I will use this space to share those offerings and to hopefully give an insight into where they come from within me and my experiences of this one precious life.

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18/10/2025

50 years ago today ❤️.
My parents lived their life together so deeply in love. Their love was one of courage and truth. 50 years ago today, they got married even when the odds were stacked against them. Even when so many had turned their backs on them. They believed in their love so much that they refused to bow to the objections from so many. Their love spoke truth to power.

To have been borne out of such love has been one of the greatest gifts of my life. The unwavering love they shared was also how they loved us. We got to witness what real love is all about, how it can hold so much, and never break. My parents showed us that love is something that should be given freely, it is what the world needs so much more of.

Mam doesn't have Dad with her today to celebrate, but she does have his love with her always. It carries her through. It carries all of us through.
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14/10/2025

When I feel stuck in any way, I turn to Reiki. Sometimes, I am stuck in an emotion, sometimes I can't get out of unhelpful thought patterns, sometimes I feel the need for clarity but it feels just out of reach, and it is times like this that I know Reiki will help.

Firstly, having a Reiki session gives all parts of us a chance to come to stillness and rest, with no demands or expectations. It is the opportunity to simply be and to feel deeply held and cared for. We, like all living things, are energy. Energy wants nothing more than to flow optimally and to ground and sometimes, as it seeks this, it can, in fact, end up becoming stagnant. When this happens, we feel it in any number of ways. We might not feel great physically, things like headaches or sleep issues. The stagnation might show up in our emotional body. This might show up as tears or anger or just an all over feeling of something not being quite right, unable to find the glimmers of joy. Reiki can help with all of this.

I feel really grateful to have found Reiki and have it as a tool to offer myself, but I feel even more lucky to get to offer it to others. It feels like such a huge part of what I am here to do. I am here to help people slow down and create a space where there is nothing to do except feel into our bodies and hearts and all of the wisdom that they hold. I want to offer time where you can be away from the systems that try to separate us from our own innate wisdom and our connection to each other. This is where I believe the healing can happen, for us all.

Please get in touch to arrange a session
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09/10/2025

Reiki is a modality of energy healing that works primarily with the seven primary chakras housed within the physical body. It can create more balance and harmony in our lives, reduce inflammation, and give us an overall sense of well-being.

Reiki level 1 training can be the first step on the way to becoming a practioner or can simply be a beautiful gift for you to use to bring more healing to your own life and that of your family & friends. This is about self-healing and getting back to a deeper connection to the true essence of you and a remembrance of how deeply we are all connected to each other.

Over the course of the two days, you will
🌟 receive four attunements to reiki energy
🌟 learn about the history of reiki and the chakra system.
🌟get plenty of hands-on practice so that you feel comfortable and confident in your practice

The course will include;
🌟 course manual
🌟 nutritious lunch, both days
🌟 framed certificate
🌟 a top-up attunement 6 - 8 weeks after the training
🌟 a commitment of ongoing support from me

If this is calling to you, then please reach out if you would like to chat about whether this is for you or to book a space. Spaces are limited to ensure there is a commitment to care & trust. It would mean so much to me to guide and support you on this path.

As always, I sit in deepest gratitude to my teacher Liz for her unwavering love and support ❤️

04/10/2025

Being a wellness practitioner, a healer, a space holder are concepts I have been sitting with recently. Almost 2 years since my eyes and heart have been blown open and the lens through which I view everything changed.

I wonder about the wellness world that I once believed I belonged to and yet have become so disillusioned with. I think about full moons, new moon, sunrises. I wonder if those who are holding these spaces are acknowledging that there are so many other humans under that same moon, that same sun, that are enduring unimaginable suffering. Are they holding space that can acknowledge the privilege that is so present. Is the intention only for self care? If so, I find myself wondering what the point is. Who does that type of wellness serve? How can a healer ignore the suffering of so many? How can someone hold space that doesn't have the capacity to contain the multitudes that can be present at the same time? How can someone promise wellness with no mention of how unwell the world is?

We must refuse the systems that thrive on individuality, the systems that work so hard at trying to make us forget our undeniable connectivity to each other. When we remember this, we can not refuse the responsibility of collective care and collective action for each other.

Gathering to walk the streets and shout our rage, heartbreak, and commitment to change is healing
Gathering to share joy and creativity is healing
Gathering to resource each other for resilience is healing.

This is the wellness world I want to exist within and contribute to. All of my practices are now rooted in this. The wisdom of Gabor Maté tells us, "It's not about feeling better, it's about getting better at feeling." And I think that's the least we can do for each other.

📸 at today's incredible national demo with