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Rooted Ventures Yoga, mindfulness, wellbeing workshops and courses. Delivery in either English or Polish available. Authenticity, Courage, Vulnerability, Healing, Community

My name is Anna Chmiel, I work in community mental health and I am a certified yoga and mindfulness teacher. I am here to share the practices I have found deeply nourishing with others. I believe being present is a radical act. It involves courage to look inward and hold whatever comes up in a curious, accepting and kind awareness. This can emanate way beyond a yoga mat or a meditation cushion and it allows a way of living that is intentional, authentic and compassionate. I intend to create conditions where participants can tune into what feels alive in them in the moment and make choices that meet their needs. I run Edinburgh-based and online yoga classes, mindfulness courses and wellbeing workshops independently and through charities.

🌀🐚 SPIRAL 🐚🌀The shape that keeps coming to me.On my walksIn my dreamsIn my conversationsThe shape that frustrates me.As ...
19/11/2025

🌀🐚 SPIRAL 🐚🌀

The shape that keeps coming to me.
On my walks
In my dreams
In my conversations

The shape that frustrates me.
As it invites me to feel rawer and messier.
As it pushes me to revisit old patterns.
As it re-opens old conversations and old wounds.
As it initiates me into new depths of my experience.

Yet, the shape that holds the very essence, the very wisdom I most need.

An invitation
An initiation
A reminder
A deep remembrance

Of the cyclical nature of all life, healing and growth.

Of the inter-connectedness of all beings.

Of the unfolding.

Of the unfurling.

Of the becoming
..that I'm undergoing.

And the exhale of relief that comes as I release the grip and trust it all...

In the darkness that fuels my light.
In the shadow that holds my radiance.
In the depths that I dig into so I can rise rooted.
In the softness and the tenderness that form the foundation of my strength.




I almost just stayed home.I almost didn't go for that walk.I almost didn't sit down for that meditation practice.I almos...
13/10/2025

I almost just stayed home.
I almost didn't go for that walk.
I almost didn't sit down for that meditation practice.
I almost just kept working.
I almost didn't join that Somatic Sisters Circle call.
I almost didn't put my phone down.
I almost didn't move my body that day.
I almost didn't say what I thought.

I almost didn't bother.

Yet

There was a nudge.
A discomfort that kept poking me.
A calling that wouldn't get quiet.

I followed...
..to meet myself in honesty..to invite ease and spaciousness..to say 'yes' to my needs..to connect..to allow myself to belong

To surrender into the nourishment that waited for me right there.

🍁What might it be like if you followed your nudge?
🍁What nourishment might be waiting for you there?

Love,
Anna



To the Mother who is reading this in the middle of a sleepless night...To the Mother who is celebrating her child's mile...
24/08/2025

To the Mother who is reading this in the middle of a sleepless night...
To the Mother who is celebrating her child's milestones...
To the Mother who is feeling so deeply exhausted or overwhelmed that she just wants to zone out...
To the Mother who is basking in the delight of the flow of her family life...
To the Mother who is grieving the parts of her she feels she might have lost forever...
To the Mother who finds deep joy and fulfillment in the everyday moments of nurturing her child...
To the Mother who feels bored or lost in Motherhood and makes herself wrong for it...
To the Mother who feels grateful for all the wisdom the journey of Motherhood holds for her...
..You are welcome into the Maternal Embrace.

A space where you can just be.
A space where you can be seen, heard and held.
Exactly as you are.
With compassion, acceptance and non-judgement.
A space where you can offer yourself some nourishment.

With a breath, with a smile, with a gesture, with a sigh, with a movement, with a word...

No matter how old your child is.
No matter what you are currently experiencing.

The love,
The fear
The joy,
The rage,
The delight,
The overwhelm,
The ecstasy,
The helplessness,

All of you is welcome here.

🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿

Sunday, 14 September
4 - 6 pm UK time
Online, via zoom
Donation-based

What you can expect:
- mindfulness
- sharing circle
- journaling ..and more

Booking link in BIO.

From our hearts to yours. ❤️
Anna, Lola, Paris, Megg

18/08/2025

The duality of 'positive' and 'negative' emotions is an illusion. It can lead us to grasping onto some and avoiding othe...
14/07/2025

The duality of 'positive' and 'negative' emotions is an illusion.

It can lead us to grasping onto some and avoiding other ones.

Instead, see what happens when you meet all of your emotions

🌿 with curiosity
🌿 with kindness
🌿 with acceptance

Emotions are messengers.

The uncomfortable ones tell you where to focus to meet your own needs.

Listen carefully.



The duality of 'positive' and 'negative' emotions is an illusion. It can lead us to grasping onto some and avoiding othe...
14/07/2025

The duality of 'positive' and 'negative' emotions is an illusion.

It can lead us to grasping onto some and avoiding other ones.

Instead, see what happens when you meet all of your emotions

🌿 with curiosity
🌿 with kindness
🌿 with acceptance

Emotions are messengers.
The uncomfortable ones tell you where to focus to meet your own needs.

Listen carefully.



I have recently handed in my resignation letter at work. I've planned this for a long time. Yet, when I was about to do ...
14/06/2025

I have recently handed in my resignation letter at work.

I've planned this for a long time. Yet, when I was about to do it, I felt a sudden increase in my heart rate, my palms started sweating, my chest contracted.

It felt huge. End of an era. Because you know what? It was. It is.

Together with my family, I am leaving Scotland next month. There has come a time when I feel ready to return to my home country, Poland.

❤️‍🩹There is sadness.
❤️‍🩹There is grief.
❤️‍🩹There is tenderness.
❤️‍🩹There is worry.
❤️‍🩹There is nostalgia.

AND

❤️‍🔥There is lots of excitement.
❤️‍🔥There is trust.
❤️‍🔥There is ease.
❤️‍🔥There is joy.
❤️‍🔥There is a sense of purpose and intention.

And I am holding it all.

Stay tuned to see where this takes me.
I have big dreams! 👣 🔥✨️






Can beeing unwell feel nourishing?I had a connection call with  for her Embodied Business Mentorship programme today. Me...
11/11/2024

Can beeing unwell feel nourishing?

I had a connection call with for her Embodied Business Mentorship programme today. Megg asked me how I was. I almost replied 'not great' but instead, I tuned into my body and listened for an answer. And there, a deep sense of nourishment emerged.

Here I am: feeling unwell, congested, low energy, aches and shivers all over my body and appreciating the space this sickness has created in my life just for me.

My body got what she needed. She took it forcefully as I kept postponing pausing and resting.

I knew she would. Yet, I kept going. Ignoring the whispers.

🍂So this time I stop resisting.
🍂I take a deep breath
🍂And lean into stillness.
🍂Returning Home.
..fill the air with the smell of plum crumble...offer my body some gentle movement...read, read, read (finally!).

If this resonates, I invite you to tune in as well and enter a dialog with your body, exploring curiously what she truly needs.

And if you're not sure how or where to start, drop me a message and we could perhaps connect to explore this together.

Psst... I've been engaging in some somatic explorations and a training this year and loving the depth of this work. If you're curious, let's chat 🥰







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