Michelle Carter Yoga

23/08/2022

This looks like an absolute belter of an investment into your teaching. A must for most yoga teachers I’d say!!! Run by the inspirational Heather.

Some wonderful things being shared at Heather Yoga at the moment xXx

Introducing a 4 Day live online experience to elevate your mindset around self belief, to help you move forwards with confidence & clarity, and expand your business & attract more students!

Every yoga teacher, and every business owner experiences self doubt and feeling like a fraud at different times – whatever stage and whatever level you’re at.

Recognising it, understanding it, and learning how to navigate & overcome it – is absolutely vital for you on this path as a successful Yoga teaching business!

You can choose to let it block you, hold you in place, and not move forwards – losing time, energy and money in that unworthiness & stuckness….or choose to recognise it, move through it, and experience a deep trust, self belief and real certainty that generates abundance, ease and flow, and builds your impact, influence and income!

It’s always a choice.

With the awareness, knowledge, mindset, tools, inspired action, support, and continual practice – we can transmute, overcome & transform the obstacles, get in energetic alignment and connect to our ability to walk along this path as a yoga teacher in a deep space of trust, confidence & value of who are and how we help our students, and access the freedom & abundance that is available to all of us.

This is really the business of Yoga!

Join me for 4 Days Of Live Training, Coaching & Support!

We start 31st August.

Find out more and what you’ll receive and learn - head to link. www.heatheryoga.co.uk/positive-mindset/

Heather x

20/05/2022

Hoping everyone has a wonderful weekend, whatever that may bring.
I hope you find some elements of yoga in it. Find time to be present, embrace what the day brings you and be thankful as much as you can be 🥰

09/10/2020

Literally feeling on top of the world right now. So grateful I am here. So happy I was able to walk along some of the cornish coastal path when 1 year ago, exactly as I write this post, I was under the knife having a removed from my femur. What a crazy ride it has been since ‘hurting’ my knee at home June 2019; an A&E visit where I collected crutches and started non weight bearing; an MRI then showing a tumour; biopsy and eventual diagnosis at the wonderful Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham in August / September then surgery 9th October 2019. I still have pain, tightness and lack of function in some ways. The recovery is still ongoing, which I never expected. I can walk now unaided, I do a short yoga practice and I am continuing to build strength at the gym so I can get back to hiking properly.
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This year has been such a test for us all in different ways. I hope me telling my story can give you hope that even when you honestly feel like your life / world has fallen apart there is so much to be grateful for and things will open up for you in new and unexpected ways. Here’s to overcoming challenges and sitting with discomfort. Here’s to the ups and downs and riding them with grace.

04/10/2020

Autumn. Favourite season. A time to notice change, to visibly see time passing as the leaves change colour, then fall. Time to reconnect to the first limb of yoga: the Yamas. 5 moral guidelines to guide us through this life!
•Ahimsa (Non-violence, Freedom from Harming)
•Satya (Truthfulness)
•Asteya (Non-stealing, Freedom from Stealing)
•Brahmacharya (Moderation)
•Aparigraha (Non-hoarding, Freedom from Grasping)
As .by.letty wisely reminded me today, Asana or postures are 1 small small part of yoga. Reconnecting to this foundation 🍂

01/09/2020

Photo from 2015 which doesn’t sound like a long time ago but boy does it feel it.

I would say from 2012 onwards I had a disciplined yoga practice. I got up every morning before optometry work to practice for 90mins which meant getting up in the dark most of the year and at some points sleeping in my yoga clothes so I could just roll out of bed and onto the mat. I stopped going out, seeing my friends much and basically ate, breathed and slept yoga. I was leaving a party lifestyle, so it felt like a ‘healthy option’ but now I look back though, was it more an addiction?

Yoga is a great place to hide from your negative emotions and feelings; breathe, sweat and vinyasa them away. They don’t really go anywhere though. They just get pushed down beneath a lot of ‘love and light’. Then something happens (let’s say a traumatic tumour diagnosis for example) and all your old ‘stuff’ from a childhood of mental abuse comes hurtling back into your face and then some.

This is what I’ve been dealing with over the last 8 months and I’m now luckily in the care of a psychologist trained in medical trauma who’s helping me navigate the box in my mind where I shoved all my negative thoughts, feelings and emotions connected to childhood. There’s people pleasing, codependency and all sorts in there guarded well by my inner critic.

Now I’m learning to look at these elements, sit with these feelings and accept what I see as negative or ‘bad’ as part of me. I’m also somehow making my way back to my yoga practice that used to give me so much pleasure (none of this negates the positives I got from the practice it’s just the shadow side). So yeah, lots of heavy lifting going on over here. So for all those going through some tricky s**t- I see you ♥️

12/07/2020

So happy to have completed a massive 14,000 steps today without crutches or a stick round Fewston reservoir. The last time I did such a big walk I was hobbling on the way back downhill (tumour was showing itself for the first time). The second photo shows the result on my operated leg; some lovely swelling! I’m currently still finding a balance with rest and exercise to minimise swelling but I’m really excited about gaining more strength and going back to the gym when it reopens. My yoga practice is currently a place of retreat; I’m not chasing postures like I was which makes me feel like I’ve really begun again in a new headspace. It feels great 🥰🙏🏼♥️

21/06/2020

Any of us who have practiced or taught yoga, know about the umbrella of ‘wellness’. In this industry (of course wellness can become an industry! This is a capitalist society!) is doing so much to make it clear that racism is an issue and ignorance is rife. Please sign up to her email newsletter for real insight, awareness and ways to take action. (Shown here: interview with )

19/05/2020

Through this little window of trees you’d think I lived in a pretty Yorkshire village... I do! Armley!! There is beauty to be found EVERYWHERE you just have to take time and care to be present and look ♥️🌷😘

01/05/2020

I was inspired after reading a lovely post from about what we do when we cant do the practice. Yesterday my practice looked like this after some movement. Some days it looks like seated meditation (not cross legged anymore like Buddha but in a comfy chair in my pjs). Some days it looks like breath work and in others it’s going for a walk. The thread that flows through all these is my intention to at least try to be present with the sensations of my body in the here and now. It is a practice, I sometimes can’t do anything because my leg hurts, my body is tired and I need sleep. Sometimes I have pain, discomfort or so many thoughts spinning round it’s dizzying, but I sit with it. “I hold the charge” (thanks for teaching me this ). Now I can’t do the practice I used to I’m actually relishing the space, what a magical time to recalibrate and explore my connection to everything. The shock and grief have past and I’m left in the stillness and I’m truly happy with that.