ABOUT ESTHER

Hi, I’m Esther.

I work with yoga, coaching, and nervous system-based practices to support people navigating pressure, responsibility, and change — helping them feel more grounded, clear, and able to live and work in a way that feels sustainable.

MY WORK

My work sits at the intersection of coaching, nervous system awareness, and embodied practice.

I support people in two main ways:

through structured 1:1 coaching (including my 3-month Back to You programme)
through yoga and movement practices that support regulation, strength, and recovery

Alongside this, I also work with organisations to support workplace wellbeing and sustainable performance.

Across all of it, the focus is the same:

helping people understand themselves more clearly, and respond to life with more steadiness and choice.

HOW I WORK

I don’t see people as things to be fixed.

I see patterns, responses, and lived experience — and I work with those gently and practically.

My approach blends:

coaching (ICF-informed)
nervous system and stress regulation work (polyvagal-informed)
yoga, movement, and breath practices
mindfulness and reflective space

Sometimes that looks like conversation.

Sometimes it looks like movement.

Often it’s a combination of both.

WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE

People come to me when they are:

feeling stretched or under pressure
navigating change or transition
questioning what “enough” or “success” really looks like
wanting to feel more at home in themselves again

Together we slow things down, make sense of patterns, and create space for more sustainable ways of living and working.

OUTSIDE OF WORK

When I’m not teaching or working with clients, you’ll usually find me:

upside down in an aerial hammock or hoop
listening to my latest vinyl finds
reading
or spending time with my (increasingly not so little) family

WHERE I WORK

You can find me across West Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and online, including:
Twyford, Caversham, Wallingford, Henley, Watlington, and Streatley.

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Esther is a member of Yoga Alliance Professionals, and has completed internationally recognised qualifications and training including

Yoga Alliance 500 hours including pathways in yoga for PTSD, Depression and Anxiety,

Restorative Yoga, Accessible Sequencing, and Chanting

Yoga Alliance Professionals 80 hours Yoga for Athletes and in Sport (Sarah Ramsden)

Breathwork to Improve Sports Performance (Sarah Ramsden)

Fascia and the Anatomy of Movement for Yoga and Pilates Teachers 20 hours (Gary Carter)

Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga (Dr. Arielle Schwartz)

Mandala Methodology 25 hours (Dulce Mandala)

ICF Whole Person Coaching 70 hours

Yoga Alliance Yoga Nidra 60 hours

Yoga Alliance Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction 25 hours

The Minded Institute Yoga Nidra for Mental Wellbeing course

Sound Meditation Training

Circle facilitation skills: A trauma-informed and restorative approach CPD

Active IQ Aerial Yoga Teacher Training

Yoga Alliance 50 hours Aerial Yoga Level 1

Yoga Alliance 50 hours Aerial Yoga Level 2

Spin City Beginners Aerial Sling Instructor

Spin City Intermediate Aerial Sling Instructor

Spin City Beginners Coaching Instructor

Spin City Beginners Hoop Instructor

Spin City Shoulder Strength and Stability CPD

Level 2 Certificate in Falls Prevention Awareness 603/2552/5 WB

Move It or Lose It FABS Instructor (Flexibility Aerobics Strength and Balance)

British Canoeing PaddleSport Instructor Level 1

British Canoeing PaddleSport Safety and Rescue Course

Yoga Alliance Prenatal Yoga 85 hours

Yoga Alliance MOGA®'s Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Instructor Program 65 hours

Yoga Alliance Postnatal Yoga 20 hours (multiple qualifications with different yoga schools)

Yoga Alliance Mum and Baby Yoga 15 hours

Yoga Alliance Professionals Advanced Postnatal 20 hours

Yoga Alliance Professionals Birth Balance Physio Informed Pregnancy and Postnatal 85 hours

C-section Recovery - Postnatal Yoga specialist course

Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga for Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP) specialist course

Different types of PGP and how yoga can support specialist course

Pelvic Floor specialist course
Twin pregnancy specialist course

FEDANT Practical Birth Preparation Workshop Training

I work with corporate clients to develop wellbeing offerings to support mental wellness, resilience and stress reduction. From regular in-house and online offerings, to bespoke mindfulness workshops, and staff wellbeing days, I have worked with small local businesses to FTSE 100 companies to support their staff and bring my client's wellness strategies to life.

In addition, I have developed kids yoga sessions, incorporating my skills and experience in volunteering with children, playing and exploring with my own small people, and my studies into yoga and mindfulness.

I have also completed Makaton Levels 1 and 2 qualifications, incorporating these into my accessible yoga classes for those with learning and physical disabilities, as well as studies into baby and child development, informing my approach to class structure and movement to support neural and motor development.

Oh hello 👋

For those who are new here, I thought I'd properly introduce myself.

I'm Esther – yoga teacher, wellbeing specialist, coach, mentor, mum, nature lover, and someone who is endlessly fascinated by the connection between body, mind and nervous system.

I think about yoga and wellbeing practices as ways to have a conversation with ourselves.

So often we're taught to push through, ignore the signals, or work against our bodies. Yoga, meditation, breathwork, movement, rest and time in nature offer something different. They give us the opportunity to tune in, listen, and respond to what we find. To work with our bodies rather than against them.

Alongside a 20-year career in the corporate world, I spent many years training, teaching and deepening my understanding of movement, wellbeing, coaching and nervous system support. Today, I bring together experience from both worlds, supporting people through yoga, meditation, yoga nidra, aerial yoga, coaching, mentoring and workplace wellbeing programmes.

Over the coming months, I'll be sharing:

✨️Mama & Daughter Retreats with @_taraghosh_ booking closes tomorrow 👀
✨️Seasonal Spaces evening retreat Thursday 18th June with @the_holistic_soul_coach_
✨️ Tipi Yoga & Brunch @spireandspoke - next one Sunday 28th June
✨️Island Reset with @the_sup_life Sunday 5th July
✨️ Yoga Nidra Circles with @thelittleyogastudiotwyford , @graceandgravitystudio and directly via me
✨️ Family and Adult Aerial Workshops with @graceandgravity.studio (including some really special ones at their 7th birthday Earth and Aerial Retreat 🤩)
✨️ Wellbeing support for individuals and organisations including corporate retreats with @hdv_hot
✨️Weekly yoga for guests at @emberscamping

Whether you're here for movement, rest, growth, connection, or simply a reminder to pause and check in with yourself, I'm so glad you're here.

I'd love to know what brought you here. Let me know in the comments. 🧡

Most of us spend our days moving from one thing to the next.

Emails.
Notifications.
To-do lists.
Conversations.

Before you scroll on, give yourself 15 seconds to simply listen.

No need to do anything.
No need to achieve anything.

Just birdsong and ferns in a quiet corner of the woods across the field from my home.

Did you stay until the end?

Have a good day x

The lesser spotted Esther - photo taken by a wonderful private client ✨️

I love weaving together nidra and sound meditation, creating a deeply restorative experience, working with the brainwaves as they move into a deeper state of relaxed conscious awareness 🧘‍♀️

This is a practice I value hugely myself, and such a treat to share.

Monthly Sundays @graceandgravitystudio - 1st Sunday of the month 6pm

And new to Northend Turville Village Hall, just £12.50
6pm
Fridays monthly
22nd May (that's this Friday folks 🤩)
19th June
17th July

And 1st Thursday of the month is traditional monthly nidra at @thelittleyogastudiotwyford

I can't to see you in dreamland soon x

From Saturday…

I booked this training a year ago, at a time when life felt raw and wide open. My grandma had just passed, and something shifted deeply in me. I began to notice the stories held in my body — echoes of injuries, experiences, emotions I hadn’t fully met yet.

Threads started weaving together…
Teachings I first touched during my 200hr YTT, then deepened in my 500hr.
Those powerful 9 weeks exploring yoga for PTSD, anxiety and depression from 2019-2021.
The experiences at The Dreaming, and the quiet, profound power of ceremony.
My own lived experiences.
The trauma conference the day after an 11 hour 50km charity fundraiser and how that shone a light further on just how my body keeps the score.
Time spent immersed studying applied polyvagal theory in yoga.
And the continued curiosity around stress — how it shows up in the body, how it shapes us, how we can begin to unravel it.

All of it has led me here.

Now, with just a few days to go, I feel it all — excitement, nerves, curiosity, a touch of apprehension… the full, human mix.

I know this experience will change me. They always do. But this one feels… different.

A huge thank you to the beautiful teachers holding space and covering classes next week — I’m so grateful.

I’ll see you on the other side 🪶✨

Together: Mama & Daughter Retreat Experiences with Esther Abrey and @_taraghosh_
A signature experience, thoughtfully created

Since launching our Mama & Daughter Retreats, we’ve welcomed incredible pairs of mothers and daughters into this space — each arriving with their own stories, dynamics, and seasons of life.

What unfolds during the day is often far more than expected.

We see shoulders soften. Conversations open. Laughter return.

We see daughters light up with confidence, and mothers given space to truly see and hear them — without distraction.

Many tell us it’s not something they would have created on their own, but something they’re deeply grateful they made time for.

The impact goes beyond the day

This isn’t just a “nice day together”.

It’s a shared experience that often becomes a reference point —
a moment both of you return to in the weeks and months that follow.

A conversation that started here continues at home.
A new level of understanding begins to grow.
A sense of connection feels easier, more natural, more open.

For many families, this day gently shifts something — creating more trust, more ease, and more space to navigate the changes ahead together.

If this calls to you, limited spaces are available for our next Together Experience on Sunday 14th June. We would love to welcome you.

Love Esther and Tara x

II really do love what I do…
but if I’m honest, I don’t love the feeling that I should always be talking about it here 🤦‍♀️

There’s something about the noise of social media that doesn’t quite sit with the quieter, more soulful nature of this work.

And yet… I often hear from people that they didn’t know something was happening, or that they’d have loved to come.

So I’m finding a middle ground — sharing, simply and gently, for those who would like to know 🧡

I met this beautiful tree on a walk in France last month… it felt steady, spacious, and so very beautiful
A good reminder that things don’t need to be loud to be felt.

If you’d like to stay connected with what’s coming up, here are a few of the spaces unfolding over the next few weeks:

✨ Thursday 7th May, 7.30pm — Monthly Nidra @thelittleyogastudiotwyford
✨ Friday 22nd May, 6pm — Nidra & Sound, Northend Village Hall
✨ Sunday 24th May, 3–5pm — Island Retreat with @the_sup_life
✨ Sunday 7th June — super Sunday with @graceandgravitystudio
10am Family Aerial
11.15am Beginners Aerial Sling
12.30pm Restorative Aerial & Floating Meditation
6pm Nidra
✨ Sunday 14th June — Together: Mama & Daughter Retreat with @_taraghosh_
✨ Thursday 18th June, 6.30pm — Seasonal Space with @the_holistic_soul_coach_

And I’m also opening a small number of spaces for a coaching introductory offer, alongside the beta launch of Back to You — a 3-month experience.

If any of this speaks to you, you’re so welcome.
And if you’d prefer to hear about things more directly, just let me know — I’m always happy to share more quietly too.

Esther x

It was so good to be back with the awesome team at @emberscamping Henley last week! Thanks so much for having me, and for inviting me in to your team training time together 🙌

We explored yoga in the most stunning surroundings as part of their team building and training — stepping into the guest experience, playing with trust and partner work, and taking time to move, breathe and reset after full days preparing for an exciting new season across the UK.

I’ll also be sharing free weekly yoga for guests at the Henley site from May — Saturdays at 9am, out in nature 🧡

There’s something powerful about taking teams out of their usual environment and into nature — it shifts perspective, builds connection, and creates space to actually land.

I’ll be back again soon, and the Embers Team have also got their brilliant Roarsome Summit coming up on 16–17 May — well worth a look if you’re craving that mix of family fun, connection and the great outdoors.

And if you’re looking to bring this kind of experience into your own workplace, I offer corporate yoga and wellbeing sessions designed to support focus, resilience and sustainable performance.

✨️ Get in touch to explore working together

#CorporateWellbeing #TeamBuilding #OutdoorWellbeing #YogaForWork #NervousSystemSupport HenleyOnThames WorkplaceWellbeing

Little peek into today's peak flow at @graceandgravitystudio

There is something very special about our Monday's in this space ✨️

🌅7.30am Rise and Shine Yoga.
Flow to move into your week with renewed focus and connection.

☀️9.20am Slow Flow.
Mindful movement to deepen the conversation with your body.

🤱10.30am Postnatal Strengthen and Stretch.
Connect with baby, that brilliant body of yours, pelvic floor, strengthening, stabilising, and stretching in your postnatal period.

🔥12.15pm Forrest Inspired Yoga.
Blend ritual, core, breathwork, challenge and pause through Ana Forrest's unique system.

🤰7.15pm Pregnancy Yoga.
Support your pregnancy and birth journey through rest, relaxation, pelvic floor, stability, and breath.

I can't wait to see you on the mat soon x

Slow down.
No, really… slow right down.

Island Retreats with @estherabreyyoga and @the_sup_life are your invitation to step away from the noise and into nature — to breathe, reset, and reconnect.

Think paddling to a private island, gentle movement, breath, stillness, journalling… and that feeling of being completely held by the outdoors.

I’m so excited to be sharing these intentionally curated afternoons — they’re going to be really special.

Join us:
Sunday 24th May | 3–5pm
Sunday 5th July | 2–4pm

Spaces are kept small, so if you feel drawn to these, you can find all the details and book your spot with The SUP Life 🧡

My my there is so much out there right now. The headlines. The fuel prices. It is a lot.

It seems to be that when things are particularly tough, nature is all the more extravagant. Remember the insane spring of the first lockdown? Like nature was turning it up to 11.

And again right now. Amidst the madness. There is so much beauty.

That, too, is real ✨️🧡

In classes this week we have been returning to foundations- yoga that is steady and comfortable, even as we move through challenge. And the clue is always the breath - as I move through this, am I able to breathe?

Still to come this week:

Tonight
7.15pm 🤰Pregnancy Yoga @graceandgravitystudio

Tuesday
Private clients
✨️7pm Northend Village Hall RG9 6LJ £12.50 DM to save your space

Wednesday
🧡9.30am Forrest Inspired (Inspired 😊) @graceandgravitystudio

🧘‍♀️7.30pm Unwind and Restore @yogareadinguk mat leave for the wonderful @movewithfirefly

Thursday
Private senior fitness with @anchorlaterlife

😌8pm Restorative Aerial Yoga and Floating Meditation @pandabear.studio 🚫 (join the waitlist)

Friday
Private clients

✨️6pm Northend Village Hall RG9 6LJ
Yoga Nidra and Sound Meditation £12.50 DM to save your space

Sunday @graceandgravity.studio
🎪10am Family Aerial 🚫 (join waitlist)
🎪11.15am Beginners Aerial Sling
🦋12.30pm Beginners Aerial Yoga Masterclass
🧘‍♀️6pm Yoga Nidra and Sound @The Swan

Feeling it all at the moment? You are not alone 🤍
If things feel a bit loud, a bit fast, a bit much… this is your reminder to come back to yourself. Gently. No fixing required.

Here are 5 simple, science-backed ways to anchor when everything feels a bit mad:

1. Lengthen your exhale
Inhale for 4, exhale for 6. That longer out-breath helps your nervous system settle and signals that you’re safe.

2. Orient yourself
Have a soft look around. Notice colours, shapes, light. Let your eyes land. This brings you out of your head and back into the present moment.

3. Move a little
Nothing fancy — a stretch, a walk, a sway. Movement helps your body process and release stress, not just hold onto it.

4. Name what’s here
“I’m feeling overwhelmed” / “I’m tired” / “This is a lot.”
Naming it gently can take the edge off. You don’t have to push it away.

5. Whole-person check-in
Pause and ask: what do I need right now — physically, emotionally, mentally? Not what you should do… what you actually need.

No big overhaul required. Just one small shift can change how things feel 🤍

Save this and come back to it whenever you need to regulate that amazing body and mind of yours ✨ And remember that this in itself is protest; in a world fuelled by division, hate and knee jerk reactions, when we are calm, we can see. When we see, we can choose. When we choose, we have power xx

#nervoussystemsupport #groundingpractices #wellbeingtools #anxietysupport #yogateacherlife mindbodyconnection

POV ~ you share the real BTS, not just the highlights… and it might not be as polished, but it’s deeply, quietly beautiful (soft close toilet seat and all ✨)

We’re away at the moment (huge thank you to the wonderful humans holding the classes while I’m gone 🤍)

14 hours in the car over 2 days.
Hanging pictures.
Finally fitting those soft-close toilet seats.
Cross stitch picked back up in little pockets of time.
Biblical rain.
Market runs and stocking up on cleaning supplies.
Home-cooked meals.
Painting with the smalls.
Squabbles. Laughter.
Life admin with the local notaire.
Chats with the bar owner about local history.
Windy walks… and very wet ones.
Evenings catching up on Ghostbusters.

Not the shiny highlight reel.
Just real, condensed, full-life moments as a team of four.

It’s so easy to share the polished parts. The “good enough” moments.
But this is the truth of it — I am and it is all of it.

The highs and the lows.
The mundane bits in between.
The joy… and the “let’s quietly move on from that one” moments.

These practices we come back to — the breath, the pauses, the awareness — they’re lovely in softly lit rooms with music and sunshine.

But their real power?
It’s here.

When life is lifing.
When the kids are home and need you.
When sleep is patchy and you don’t quite feel like yourself.
When you planned for sunshine and got rain (in more ways than one).

That’s where they land.
That’s where they hold.

A steadiness within the flux.
A thread of love through the messy bits.

Because it is all of it, isn’t it?

I am all of it.
And so are you 🤍

So many wonderful things are quietly blooming behind the scenes 🤩

I’m away with the smalls at the moment — living without a watch, moving between yoga, life drawing, cross-stitch, vinyl, and even fitting soft-close toilet seats 😄 Life feels slow and simple, the perfect space for new ideas to grow.

Some things I’m excited to share:

✨ Sun 12 Apr & Sunday 28th Jun – Monthly Tipi Yoga Gathering @spireandspoke and @watlingtonwellnesscentre / Book: www.estherabreyyoga.com/tipi-yoga-gatherings

✨ Fri 17 Apr & Fri 22 May, 6pm – Yoga Nidra & Sound, Northend RG9 6LJ | £12.50 |
DM to save your space

✨ Sun 19 Apr @graceandgravity.studio –
Family Aerial 10am |
Beginner Sling 11.15am |
Beginner Aerial Yoga 12.30pm |
Yoga Nidra & Sound 6pm

✨ Sun 24 May – Island Reset Retreat with @thesuplife | Paddle, pause & unplug: https://www.thesuplife.co.uk/event-details/island-reset-unplug-paddle-pause

✨ Sun 14 Jun – Mama Daughter Retreat with @taraghosh | Play, connection & learning with your 9–14yo: https://www.estherabreyyoga.com/mama-daughter-retreats

✨ From May – Weekly Saturday Yoga @emberscamping, 9am 🤩 Free for campers 💃

And more beautiful offerings for the summer are quietly brewing… can’t wait to share soon ✨

A square on the grid of gratitude ~

To my past selves for choosing where I find myself
For the layers and how they reveal themselves
To clients who choose to work with me
To the businesses who get in touch on here, looking to team up with me
To younger me who put the work in
To current me who continues to
To my teammate who challenges, backs me and sorts out the morning cuppa
To my not so smalls who make me laugh, groan, and lift my gaze daily
To my teachers who inspire, nurture and support
To those who have come before
To those still to come
To the knowledge that creating space allows more of what is to be

I am so grateful ✨️🙏

Photo from the archive by the brilliant @helenarosemurphy ~ I am still so grateful for these pics
🙏

Sunday 22nd March.

~ A morning retreat to pause, reenergise, reflect and plant intentions for the new season ~

Blending yoga, mindfulness, and whole person coaching your morning is the opportunity to move, breathe, journal and create, ready to step into the new season with intention.

I can't wait to share this morning with you.

10am-12.30pm | £35

Book with @graceandgravitystudio

Serene moment in nature.

Behind the scenes: me standing on a tree stump holding my phone above my head 😄

A reminder that calm doesn’t have to be picture-perfect… it just needs a moment of pause.

If you’re craving a deeper pause this week:

✨ Friday – Yoga Nidra & Sound Meditation
6pm | Northend, RG9 6LJ | £12.50 DM to save your space ✨️

🌸 Spring Equinox Seasonal Reset
Sunday 22 March | 10am–12.30pm
at @graceandgravitystudio
£35 for your morning retreat

🤩
Where’s your favourite place to pause and look up?

Back for another summer with @emberscamping offering free yoga for guests 🤩

It is such a special place - space to roam, freedom to play, and great on site activities like yoga and @the_sup_life too (and my kids rave about their hot chocolate, and ice cream skills too!) 🧡

With the sun popping out this week, returning in May will be here before we know it! ✨️💃🎉

🚨PSA

I have put together lots of free resources for you - meditations, quick classes, longer practices, all on my website. For free. No sign in or anything needed 😘😘

I love my job. And I love working with so many varied wonderful folks each week. Clients that I see weekly include the elderly, as well as immunosuppressed.

If you are have a lurgy, this isn't just about not giving me a lurgy (though as someone who is self employed and when I don't work, I don't get paid, that is a thing too) but more importantly about supporting and caring for other awesome folks who I will be seeing in the days after being with you.

Please enjoy a free session online. With lots of love. And I will love seeing you back in sessions when you are feeling better 😘

Thank you so much xx

March Offerings – a little more support for body & mind

If you’re feeling the need for steadier ground, more breath, or a place to gently land each week… you’re not alone.

Alongside my regular classes, I’ve created a few new offerings this month with exactly that in mind — spaces to move, rest, and reconnect without pressure or perfection 🧡

✨ NEW WEEKLY CLASSES

Mondays @graceandgravitystudio
• 7.30am – Rise & Shine Yoga
• 10.30am – Postnatal Strengthen & Stretch
• 7pm – Pregnancy Yoga

Tuesdays
• 12.30pm – Watlington Town Hall (with @watlingtonwellness)

Tuesdays (evening)
• 7pm – Northend Village Hall – £12.50 PAYG (DM to save your space)

Fridays @ Grace & Gravity Studio
• 9.15am – Aerial Yoga (new class!)

🌙 MARCH SPECIALS & MONTHLY GATHERINGS

• Thursday 5th March, 7pm – Monthly Yoga Nidra @thelittleyogastudiotwyford
• Sunday 8th March, 10am–12.30pm – Tipi Yoga Gathering (last spaces, with @spireandspoke and @watlingtonwellness)
👉 www.estherabreyyoga.com/tipi-yoga-gatherings

• Friday 20th March, 6pm – Yoga Nidra & Sound Meditation, Northend Village Hall
(launching a new monthly series to deeply rest & reset, DM to save your space)

• Sunday 22nd March, 10am–12.30pm – Spring Equinox Seasonal Reset
👉 www.graceandgravity.studio/events/workshops

These sessions are for anyone wanting to:
✨ move kindly
✨ calm a busy nervous system
✨ feel part of something supportive
✨ make space for rest and reflection

No need to be flexible. No need to be “good at yoga.” Just come as you are.

If one of these speaks to you, I’d love to welcome you along 🤍

DM me with any questions or to book xx

✨️Some of the many glimmers I've experienced lately 🤩✨️

Lifting the gaze.
Heart. Felt.

When your messages become more like the 2nd photo, you know you're 21 years in 🤩😍😂

I won an @o2academyoxford competition last year (thank you!!) so loved getting out on a Thursday night to see Sleaford Mods. Nothing like some dirty beats and sweary shouting political and social commentary on a rainy February evening 🤩 and side quests where strangers task you with surprising them with choosing their cakey goodness - yes please!

I was mesmerised by the lights on the ceiling. And then I wonder if I am like the people in Plato's cave, concentrating on the shadows 🤔🫣😄 It is amazing what you can spot when you look up though. And being short, it was a better view than someone's back too 🤷‍♀️

Normal service will resume shortly 🤩✨️

New substack out today - a collection of where my mind has been lately, and how this has been playing out on the mat, the latest event info, and *that* recipe I have been loving 🧡✨️

BTS

I have been finding things a bit tricky lately. They came to a head a few weeks back when the heaviness of it all was sat particularly uncomfortably on me, and it was affecting me - even with friends noticing.

It has been a looooooong winter, and with various things affecting those I love, then add the headlines into the mix, and it's no wonder I was feeling maxed out.

And as I was driving along feeling at my heaviest, I had a deep knowing that actually what I was holding wasn't mine to hold. Protecting our energy is such a powerful way to connect in a way that is sustainable 🧡

So I have returned back to what I know works and nourishes.
🍲 Pre-planned meals, from scratch where possible, and using all the goodness.
📉 Reviewing anything that was pulling on my resources- from subscriptions, to classes, ways of spending my time, to time in the car between work.
🥾 walking and moving
🗑 reclaiming forgotten corners, clearing out physical and with it mental space
🌱 time in the garden, taking the time to get fingers in the dirt, planning new spaces to reclaim and work with nature on

All of these things? Free. Not necessarily easy but definitely accessible.

So this isn't about how to do a handstand, but it is yoga off of the mat - how we respond to the inevitable daily discomforts, and apply what we learn on the mat (where your attention goes, energy flows) off of the mat 🧡

And this is where the magic happens ✨️

New substack out this week, including the recipe for the delicious leek, bean and miso soup I've been enjoying this week 🤩

Ok. We got there in the end 🫠😄

Yoga has given me the tools time and time again to move, breathe, pause, balance, play, and reconnect. And to manage when things get sticky. Yes, even tiny sticky spots like promising you'd do socials and then it coincides with a day when your brain is not there for that ride 😄

New for March - an awesome timetable of classes with practitioners from @watlingtonwellnesscentre

I'll be sharing yoga on the mat Monday lunchtimes 12.30pm. I'd love to see you there 🧡🤸‍♀️🧘‍♀️

Your palette cleanser for today ✨️

I experienced this yesterday. And it felt like giving my brain a good scrub.

There is so much beauty out there. Even in February, in the rain, in the bleakness and the harshness of the extremities. Maybe even especially in all of that.

🧡✨️

Back in the air

From Friday 20th February @graceandgravitystudio

🧡✨️

Another month, another wonderful Tipi Yoga Gathering 🤩

Thank you SO much to those who joined to create such a beautiful morning together 🧡 So lovely to make new friends, and see some beautiful well known souls too (some for the first time since before the apocalypse 🥹🥰)

These are held on the 2nd Sunday of the month- early bird for both 8th March and 12th April is now live.

I'd love to see you there ✨️

And as always a huge thank you to @watlingtonwellnesscentre for the wonderful goody bags 🧡 Watlington Wellness Centre have new weekly classes starting next month - such a great addition to the wellness community in beautiful @visitwatlington

Wishing you a spacious rest of your weekend 🧡✨️🧘‍♀️🤸‍♀️✨️

Oh hi! 👋

Maybe we'll work towards this shape, or maybe it can stay where it is on the grid? 😄

This Sunday is our first Tipi Yoga Gathering of 2026! And we are so ready for it ✨️

A morning to gather your thoughts, reconnect with your body, your breath and your mind, as we meet under the beautiful canopy in the heated tipi at the fantastic @spireandspoke

Since 2023, we have been meeting every month to pause, learn, move and breathe.

I can't wait to welcome you there 🧡

Last tickets available at link in bio xx

Momentum & pacing.
Making memories lately.

Imbolc today. The place between winter and spring.
The push and pull of wanting to do all of the things, while remembering that it is still winter.

I’ve been noticing this dance between energy and rest.
Some days feel full of ideas and connection and movement.
Other days ask for quiet, space and tending to what’s underneath.

Trying to build momentum without forcing the season.
To move forward while staying rooted.

There is so much to look forward to over the coming weeks - new offerings as well as monthly specials 🤩

🧘‍♀️This Thursday 7.30pm — Nidra at @thelittleyogastudiotwyford

✨️✨️Sunday 8th February — first Tipi Yoga Gathering of 2026✨️✨️

👀👀New classes:

Monday 7.30am — @graceandgravitystudio

Yoga-inspired mobility and strength at @rute.studio.henley
Tuesdays 12.30pm
Wednesdays 9am
Fridays 12pm

Tuesdays 7pm at Northend Village Hall

Coming 20th February 9.15am — Aerial Yoga @graceandgravity.studio
Coming in March — Mondays 12.30pm at @watlingtonwellnesscentre

A season of remembering to balance the momentum with the pace.
To keep making memories, gently.

✨️🧡

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