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A Reflection from our Spain retreat

Retreats really are a precious week in your life that gives much needed space.

Where the all noise falls away and something softer can be heard, the sound of remembering ourselves again.

It’s a conscious pause —A practice of not-doing, as self-care. A return to simplicity: To presence. To breath. To community. Connection. Movement and stillness.

Our retreat in Almeria, saw us held by mountains and the vast sky as we gathered together— a circle of kind, open-hearted humans, each making the conscious choice to slow down.

This group held each other beautifully throughout the week. Being there for one another, whether for a hug, jumping waves in the sea, clearing someone’s plate after dinner or to offer tiger balm. The kind souls, of this retreat listened openly, shared, softly rested side by side and as always enjoyed much laughter (cue: accidental gazpacho ‘what’ and hula lesson)
 Each morning, we practiced qigong in silence as the light rose behind the mountain peaks, and as the light rose in us.

During our morning yoga practice, we dived deeper into postural practice for the joy of the body and the sheer pleasure of movement. In the afternoon’s we journeyed inward with philosophy teachings and soothing restorative practices, as the Spanish heat of the day asked us to slow down. To rest. To listen inward and softened into the rhythm of relaxation. 
The evenings brought cooler temperatures and breeze, like everything else during our week together, we welcomed it — with gratitude and open palms.

These spaces are sacred. The sacred rhythm of retreats.
 Not designed as escapes, but returns.
 Returns to body. To breath. Bones. To the truth that we are already enough, when we give ourselves permission to slow down.

This is the soulful work.

This is my work. And I am forever with thanks and reverence.

Join me on retreat in Almeria 19th - 26th June 2027

A Reflection from our Spain retreat

Retreats really are a precious week in your life that gives much needed space.

Where the all noise falls away and something softer can be heard, the sound of remembering ourselves again.

It’s a conscious pause —A practice of not-doing, as self-care. A return to simplicity: To presence. To breath. To community. Connection. Movement and stillness.

Our retreat in Almeria, saw us held by mountains and the vast sky as we gathered together— a circle of kind, open-hearted humans, each making the conscious choice to slow down.

This group held each other beautifully throughout the week. Being there for one another, whether for a hug, jumping waves in the sea, clearing someone’s plate after dinner or to offer tiger balm. The kind souls, of this retreat listened openly, shared, softly rested side by side and as always enjoyed much laughter (cue: accidental gazpacho ‘what’ and hula lesson)
 Each morning, we practiced qigong in silence as the light rose behind the mountain peaks, and as the light rose in us.

During our morning yoga practice, we dived deeper into postural practice for the joy of the body and the sheer pleasure of movement. In the afternoon’s we journeyed inward with philosophy teachings and soothing restorative practices, as the Spanish heat of the day asked us to slow down. To rest. To listen inward and softened into the rhythm of relaxation. 
The evenings brought cooler temperatures and breeze, like everything else during our week together, we welcomed it — with gratitude and open palms.

These spaces are sacred. The sacred rhythm of retreats.
 Not designed as escapes, but returns.
 Returns to body. To breath. Bones. To the truth that we are already enough, when we give ourselves permission to slow down.

This is the soulful work.

This is my work. And I am forever with thanks and reverence.

Join me on retreat in Almeria 19th - 26th June 2027

It’s not goodbye, it’s more au revoir.
 Yesterday marked my final Yoga & Meditation Retreat Day at the stunning Luton Hoo Hotel and Country Club—for the foreseeable future.

For the past 10 years, I’ve had the privilege of running day retreats within the stately beauty of Luton Hoo which has been an incredible journey.

This September, Luton Hoo will be closing its doors for a major refurbishment as they bid to host the Ryder Cup—an amazing project that may take up to three years to complete.

Back in 2015, Yoga Day Retreats were a fairly unknown offering / concept in Hertfordshire. To have Luton Hoo by my side, along with their exceptional team, helped bring that vision to life. Together—with their support, beautiful surroundings, and my love for yoga—we created something truly special. A day where guests were treated to excellent food, care, and soul-nourishing practices. Luton Hoo and I grew together to shape seamless, heartfelt yoga experiences for everyone who walked through those doors (myself included). Over 1,000 yogis have attended these retreat days. That number amazes me as well as the amount of times I must have said Downward Facing Dog!

Now, as the refurb approaches, Luton Hoo will start to wind down and this10-year yoga partnership cycle comes to a natural close (for now), it simply feels like the right moment to press pause on Yoga Retreat Days.

There is now a blank canvas for something new to be painted, not only for myself but also the wonderful and kind staff of Luton Hoo to who I wish much love at this time of finding new employment.

Perhaps some of you reading this have attended a retreat day there with me, I hope you enjoyed those days as much as I have? Thank you to all who came along.
It has truly been a privilege.

With love,
Paula
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It’s not goodbye, it’s more au revoir.
 Yesterday marked my final Yoga & Meditation Retreat Day at the stunning Luton Hoo Hotel and Country Club—for the foreseeable future.

For the past 10 years, I’ve had the privilege of running day retreats within the stately beauty of Luton Hoo which has been an incredible journey.

This September, Luton Hoo will be closing its doors for a major refurbishment as they bid to host the Ryder Cup—an amazing project that may take up to three years to complete.

Back in 2015, Yoga Day Retreats were a fairly unknown offering / concept in Hertfordshire. To have Luton Hoo by my side, along with their exceptional team, helped bring that vision to life. Together—with their support, beautiful surroundings, and my love for yoga—we created something truly special. A day where guests were treated to excellent food, care, and soul-nourishing practices. Luton Hoo and I grew together to shape seamless, heartfelt yoga experiences for everyone who walked through those doors (myself included). Over 1,000 yogis have attended these retreat days. That number amazes me as well as the amount of times I must have said Downward Facing Dog!

Now, as the refurb approaches, Luton Hoo will start to wind down and this10-year yoga partnership cycle comes to a natural close (for now), it simply feels like the right moment to press pause on Yoga Retreat Days.

There is now a blank canvas for something new to be painted, not only for myself but also the wonderful and kind staff of Luton Hoo to who I wish much love at this time of finding new employment.

Perhaps some of you reading this have attended a retreat day there with me, I hope you enjoyed those days as much as I have? Thank you to all who came along.
It has truly been a privilege.

With love,
Paula
X

Hey everyone, this is a picture of me in my lovely yoga therapy suite in Hertford.

It’s been a year since I graduated from Yoga Therapy training and I’ve been pretty much been under the radar with it since. However, behind the scenes, I’ve been working diligently to build, learn and practice the yoga therapy work I trained for.
I’m fortunate to be practicing alongside highly experienced therapists and counsellors at Hertford Counselling Service and one year on, my Yoga Therapy work is thriving.

Surprisingly and wonderfully, the majority of people seeing me for Yoga Therapy are men. Thankfully the stigma around men reaching out for guidance and help are long gone.

Yoga Therapy isn’t just a 1:1 session to learn yoga postures and it isn’t a substitute for medical attention, especially in the case of more serious conditions.
Yoga therapy is complementary, with a ‘goal’ to reduce people’s suffering from difficulties they are experiencing.

Yoga therapy works with the whole person, body, breath, and mind, by reducing the symptoms that can be reduced, finding tools to manage the symptoms that cannot be reduced and where possible / applicable finding root causes and improving life function while helping to shift a persons attitude and perspective to life’s challenges.

Through skilful training, deep knowledge of the yoga practice and a learnt understand of what the individual is presenting, the attendee and I find effective yoga techniques to ease their difficulties and offer some relief from their conditions at the level of the physical body or at the psycho-emotional state.

What kinds of conditions respond well to yoga therapy? I’ve listed these in the comments

I meet such exceptional people, who do the inner work to find sustainable deep self care through the yoga lens, what an inspiration they all are.

If you would like to find out more about yoga therapy, my website is in my bio and please feel free to get in touch.

Hey everyone, this is a picture of me in my lovely yoga therapy suite in Hertford.

It’s been a year since I graduated from Yoga Therapy training and I’ve been pretty much been under the radar with it since. However, behind the scenes, I’ve been working diligently to build, learn and practice the yoga therapy work I trained for.
I’m fortunate to be practicing alongside highly experienced therapists and counsellors at Hertford Counselling Service and one year on, my Yoga Therapy work is thriving.

Surprisingly and wonderfully, the majority of people seeing me for Yoga Therapy are men. Thankfully the stigma around men reaching out for guidance and help are long gone.

Yoga Therapy isn’t just a 1:1 session to learn yoga postures and it isn’t a substitute for medical attention, especially in the case of more serious conditions.
Yoga therapy is complementary, with a ‘goal’ to reduce people’s suffering from difficulties they are experiencing.

Yoga therapy works with the whole person, body, breath, and mind, by reducing the symptoms that can be reduced, finding tools to manage the symptoms that cannot be reduced and where possible / applicable finding root causes and improving life function while helping to shift a persons attitude and perspective to life’s challenges.

Through skilful training, deep knowledge of the yoga practice and a learnt understand of what the individual is presenting, the attendee and I find effective yoga techniques to ease their difficulties and offer some relief from their conditions at the level of the physical body or at the psycho-emotional state.

What kinds of conditions respond well to yoga therapy? I’ve listed these in the comments

I meet such exceptional people, who do the inner work to find sustainable deep self care through the yoga lens, what an inspiration they all are.

If you would like to find out more about yoga therapy, my website is in my bio and please feel free to get in touch.

I’ve ‘landed’ fully from a week of teaching on retreat in Turkey, back to this glorious British weather.

Retreats have a beautiful depth, which a 45 minute reel doesn’t begin to convey when a group of people gather with intention and embarking on a journey of releasing stress, slowing themselves down, being curious and taking time for each other.

This work is soul work.

I’m always in awe of how people arrive as strangers (mostly) and leave with open hearts and respectful connection.

There’s magic in this practice.

A magic which comes with connecting back to the rawness of being human, away from distractions, labels, responsibility, demands and pressure.

Each group brings a different dynamic, a different path of inquiry and fun.

For me as the facilitator, this past week had me laughing and smiling more than ever, (and coughing! I had a head cold the week previous leaving me with an irritating cough, pretty awkward in meditation, we will styled it out though)

Dalyan never fails to disappoint. Our retreat is tucked away in a pine forest, overlooking a lagoon and wild beach in an unspoilt conservation area. It’s truly unique, down to earth and off the beaten track to be intrinsically linked to nature.
Every time we step on the mat we are forest bathing with all its creatures, some critters more welcomed more than others, of course!

The only way to understand the feeling of a retreat is to experience it.
There are remarkable moments, some that shout and are awakening, some that quietly nod in your direction.

For me however, the highlights of this retreat was the quality of time I got to spend in the company kind, heart led people, but also seeing a huge, wild tortoise simply ambling along in the pine forest (I shrieked with joy) and seeing large loggerhead turtles, freely swimming like graceful angels in the clear calm sea.

If you feel ready to take the leap and join me on retreat, save the date for Turkey 2026, 4th - 11 July.

Om Mani Padme Hum.
When heart and mind unite, anything is possible.

Love
Paula xx

I’ve ‘landed’ fully from a week of teaching on retreat in Turkey, back to this glorious British weather.

Retreats have a beautiful depth, which a 45 minute reel doesn’t begin to convey when a group of people gather with intention and embarking on a journey of releasing stress, slowing themselves down, being curious and taking time for each other.

This work is soul work.

I’m always in awe of how people arrive as strangers (mostly) and leave with open hearts and respectful connection.

There’s magic in this practice.

A magic which comes with connecting back to the rawness of being human, away from distractions, labels, responsibility, demands and pressure.

Each group brings a different dynamic, a different path of inquiry and fun.

For me as the facilitator, this past week had me laughing and smiling more than ever, (and coughing! I had a head cold the week previous leaving me with an irritating cough, pretty awkward in meditation, we will styled it out though)

Dalyan never fails to disappoint. Our retreat is tucked away in a pine forest, overlooking a lagoon and wild beach in an unspoilt conservation area. It’s truly unique, down to earth and off the beaten track to be intrinsically linked to nature.
Every time we step on the mat we are forest bathing with all its creatures, some critters more welcomed more than others, of course!

The only way to understand the feeling of a retreat is to experience it.
There are remarkable moments, some that shout and are awakening, some that quietly nod in your direction.

For me however, the highlights of this retreat was the quality of time I got to spend in the company kind, heart led people, but also seeing a huge, wild tortoise simply ambling along in the pine forest (I shrieked with joy) and seeing large loggerhead turtles, freely swimming like graceful angels in the clear calm sea.

If you feel ready to take the leap and join me on retreat, save the date for Turkey 2026, 4th - 11 July.

Om Mani Padme Hum.
When heart and mind unite, anything is possible.

Love
Paula xx

A kind heads up. In the following post I talk about death, in case that’s something too difficult to read about.

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Mum died on new year’s day 2015 and so I find myself at year 10 without her.

Mum passed graciously. From diagnosis to death was only 4 weeks and during that time she did not fuss but disappointingly accepted her fate. She looked upon the photos of her grandsons and her heartbreak for all she would not grow old to see was palpable.
She explained dying was part of life and that it was now her time. Then surrounded by love, she went quietly within.
As the fireworks flew on new year’s eve she started to fade, and at 10:10 on new year’s day, mum exhaled for the last time.

For me, there’s something quite life-affirming sitting in the presence of death on new year’s day. A vigil which has happened twice in my life. The first with an ex-partner’s mother, then of course my own dear mum. It’s deep and imponderable. Perhaps because love is deep and imponderable.

A decade has now passed and I’m blown away by the velocity of time and events which has happened without mum here to see it. The scars of her passing etched fully into all that makes me who I am, because loss and impermanence allow me to value what I have, while I have it.
Each year, I feel the true meaning of new year intentionality and so I arrive in 2025 and feel the blessing of my finite life.

We all eventually will lose what we love, so for me, this day is a sacred reminder to LIVE.

It’s a salt which INTENSIFIES the flavour of my life and so to live it from love and fullness of my heart…. Cont’d in comments……

A kind heads up. In the following post I talk about death, in case that’s something too difficult to read about.

——————————————————————

Mum died on new year’s day 2015 and so I find myself at year 10 without her.

Mum passed graciously. From diagnosis to death was only 4 weeks and during that time she did not fuss but disappointingly accepted her fate. She looked upon the photos of her grandsons and her heartbreak for all she would not grow old to see was palpable.
She explained dying was part of life and that it was now her time. Then surrounded by love, she went quietly within.
As the fireworks flew on new year’s eve she started to fade, and at 10:10 on new year’s day, mum exhaled for the last time.

For me, there’s something quite life-affirming sitting in the presence of death on new year’s day. A vigil which has happened twice in my life. The first with an ex-partner’s mother, then of course my own dear mum. It’s deep and imponderable. Perhaps because love is deep and imponderable.

A decade has now passed and I’m blown away by the velocity of time and events which has happened without mum here to see it. The scars of her passing etched fully into all that makes me who I am, because loss and impermanence allow me to value what I have, while I have it.
Each year, I feel the true meaning of new year intentionality and so I arrive in 2025 and feel the blessing of my finite life.

We all eventually will lose what we love, so for me, this day is a sacred reminder to LIVE.

It’s a salt which INTENSIFIES the flavour of my life and so to live it from love and fullness of my heart…. Cont’d in comments……

Our weekend Norfolk retreat……we came home!

There was a common phrase as we arrived on Friday afternoon into our Norfolk hideaway from both the yogis who had returned to this venue and the first timers …..”ahhh we’re home”

This winter retreat really does wrap you up in cosiness, comfort and warmth. So as the wind howled and the rain soaked the land, we were tucked up in a big blanket of yoga, food, laughter and our choice to slow right down.

I adore teaching on retreat. I light up in spending quality time with people who I teach which isn’t always possible in weekly classes.

The gold for me is in having the time for extended yoga, meditation and qigong practices, that’s where the magic happens, where we soften, open our heart and speak from a steady mind. We share, and always laugh heartily, eat wholesome beautiful food and sit side by side in support of one another.

Why rush along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slowly.

Sending love to all
X

Our weekend Norfolk retreat……we came home!

There was a common phrase as we arrived on Friday afternoon into our Norfolk hideaway from both the yogis who had returned to this venue and the first timers …..”ahhh we’re home”

This winter retreat really does wrap you up in cosiness, comfort and warmth. So as the wind howled and the rain soaked the land, we were tucked up in a big blanket of yoga, food, laughter and our choice to slow right down.

I adore teaching on retreat. I light up in spending quality time with people who I teach which isn’t always possible in weekly classes.

The gold for me is in having the time for extended yoga, meditation and qigong practices, that’s where the magic happens, where we soften, open our heart and speak from a steady mind. We share, and always laugh heartily, eat wholesome beautiful food and sit side by side in support of one another.

Why rush along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slowly.

Sending love to all
X

Morocco 🇲🇦Retreat 2025

Each year I keep coming back to Morocco, it just gets better and better!!

The retreat house is so grand that and beautifully designed with love that it’s an inspiration to be there. With much art, amazing sculptures and fragrant gardens it’s a sensory awakening just to wander around the estate.

There are yogis that repeat book this retreat because it’s simply amazing, the locals are warm, loving, funny and we always have much fun, adventures and of course dive deeply into a week on yoga, qigong and meditation practice.

The group who joined me here this year had a wonderful connection to each other right from day one.❤️
Sharing their lives and stories, sitting side by side in stillness with each, delving into movement with focus and laughter, made for a week of fun, harmony and beautiful connections.

Thanks Morocco yogis you were awesome !
Here’s to next year’s retreat.
🇲🇦❤️🇲🇦

Join me on retreat in 2025, website in bio

Morocco 🇲🇦Retreat 2025

Each year I keep coming back to Morocco, it just gets better and better!!

The retreat house is so grand that and beautifully designed with love that it’s an inspiration to be there. With much art, amazing sculptures and fragrant gardens it’s a sensory awakening just to wander around the estate.

There are yogis that repeat book this retreat because it’s simply amazing, the locals are warm, loving, funny and we always have much fun, adventures and of course dive deeply into a week on yoga, qigong and meditation practice.

The group who joined me here this year had a wonderful connection to each other right from day one.❤️
Sharing their lives and stories, sitting side by side in stillness with each, delving into movement with focus and laughter, made for a week of fun, harmony and beautiful connections.

Thanks Morocco yogis you were awesome !
Here’s to next year’s retreat.
🇲🇦❤️🇲🇦

Join me on retreat in 2025, website in bio

A fabulous way to spend a Sunday 🤍

It may have been a little grey outside today but for me the light was shining bright as I am blessed to spend the day teaching the practices I adore to open hearted beautiful souls.

Thank you deeply to all who came along for our September retreat day, it was wonderful to be in your company for the day as we shared our time, conversations and yoga / qigong practices together the glorious @lutonhoohotel

A fabulous way to spend a Sunday 🤍

It may have been a little grey outside today but for me the light was shining bright as I am blessed to spend the day teaching the practices I adore to open hearted beautiful souls.

Thank you deeply to all who came along for our September retreat day, it was wonderful to be in your company for the day as we shared our time, conversations and yoga / qigong practices together the glorious @lutonhoohotel

One love, One heart, let’s join together and I’ll feel alright. 💕

If there ever was an anthem to my retreat in Turkey then this was it!!!

I am beyond privileged to have spent time and to teach the gloriously beautiful hearts that shone so brightly from the souls who came to Turkey on retreat with me.

Our time in this land had a gentle and light energy to it. Each divine soul gave their own offering that complemented the group into a wonderful holistic container for the 7 nights of our journey together.

Together we shared yoga, qigong and meditation.

Together, we sailed, rested, swam and spoke from the heart.

We laughed, sang, star gazed (due to city wide power cut) and witnessed a bright shooting star with the longest tail to which we burst into an impromptu round of applause.

We stood in awe as the sky was set on fire with moment stopping sunsets and sat side by side at the end of the week in silence with our hearts open to each other and a kind connection.

Thank you glorious souls for all you gave each other and me during our retreat in Turkey.

One Love!!!!
🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

If you’d like to join me in Turkey on retreat next year the dates are 19th - 26th April 2025. Link in bio 🙏

One love, One heart, let’s join together and I’ll feel alright. 💕

If there ever was an anthem to my retreat in Turkey then this was it!!!

I am beyond privileged to have spent time and to teach the gloriously beautiful hearts that shone so brightly from the souls who came to Turkey on retreat with me.

Our time in this land had a gentle and light energy to it. Each divine soul gave their own offering that complemented the group into a wonderful holistic container for the 7 nights of our journey together.

Together we shared yoga, qigong and meditation.

Together, we sailed, rested, swam and spoke from the heart.

We laughed, sang, star gazed (due to city wide power cut) and witnessed a bright shooting star with the longest tail to which we burst into an impromptu round of applause.

We stood in awe as the sky was set on fire with moment stopping sunsets and sat side by side at the end of the week in silence with our hearts open to each other and a kind connection.

Thank you glorious souls for all you gave each other and me during our retreat in Turkey.

One Love!!!!
🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

If you’d like to join me in Turkey on retreat next year the dates are 19th - 26th April 2025. Link in bio 🙏

Hey Everyone

I’m slowly edging back to teaching after my summer break. Come join me for yoga, meditation and qigong classes this autumn. Classes start back 8th Sept.

Mondays 7:30pm Slow Down Yoga, Hatfield
Tuesdays 9:30am Yoga & Qigong, Essendon

Wednesdays
12:30pm Breathe & Be Still, Hatfield
6:00pm Yoga Slowly, Hatfield
7:30pm Beginner’s yoga, Hatfield

Thursdays 7:30pm Yoga Flow, St Albans
Friday 11:15am Yoga & Qigong, Hatfield
Sundays 9am Slow Flow, live online

Link in bio for website to book all classes 💕

Looking forward to seeing you in class gorgeous people xxx

Hey Everyone

I’m slowly edging back to teaching after my summer break. Come join me for yoga, meditation and qigong classes this autumn. Classes start back 8th Sept.

Mondays 7:30pm Slow Down Yoga, Hatfield
Tuesdays 9:30am Yoga & Qigong, Essendon

Wednesdays
12:30pm Breathe & Be Still, Hatfield
6:00pm Yoga Slowly, Hatfield
7:30pm Beginner’s yoga, Hatfield

Thursdays 7:30pm Yoga Flow, St Albans
Friday 11:15am Yoga & Qigong, Hatfield
Sundays 9am Slow Flow, live online

Link in bio for website to book all classes 💕

Looking forward to seeing you in class gorgeous people xxx

Mallorca, Mallorca you are held in my heart, what a blessed retreat and sanctuary we shared.

There’s a magic which happens on retreats.

These deeply special spaces surrounded with tranquility and calm where the transformational power of yoga can be fully lived.

Each time I run a retreat they are different. As I feel into the group and the energy with which they are holding, I settle into my teaching, offering practices around a theme for the students to unravel from their tension and move away from the ‘doing’ mode.

A sanctuary of 7 nights for calming the inner landscape, releasing held stress, an opportunity to fully down regulate and laugh heartily, opening gently through mind, soul and body and feel fully at ease in resting deeply.

Our Mallorca retreat touched a little deeper, as I witnessed the participants gently transforming throughout the week, some of the participants commented / witnessed the transformation of my teaching and offerings. Through my ten years of being a teacher and 26 years of a yoga practitioner, I’d never be here without the hard lessons I’ve learnt and it’s in those challenges I’ve found my voice and my wisdom.

Our Mallorca retreat was a divine testament to how a consistent daily yoga and meditation practice, supported by healthy offerings of food, warmth and kindness of people (and weather), slowing down, laced with gentle swims, time and space to think / feel, walks and massages, brings you back home to yourself and back to your heart, with fulfilling and beautiful connections which nestle deeply into the cells of the body.

Would you like to join me on a yoga & meditation retreat? Drop me a DM 💕

Morocco 5th Oct 2024 - 7 nights
Turkey 19th April 2025 - 7 nights
Almeria 21st June 2025 - 7 nights
Morocco 13th Sept 2025 - 7 nights

Mallorca, Mallorca you are held in my heart, what a blessed retreat and sanctuary we shared.

There’s a magic which happens on retreats.

These deeply special spaces surrounded with tranquility and calm where the transformational power of yoga can be fully lived.

Each time I run a retreat they are different. As I feel into the group and the energy with which they are holding, I settle into my teaching, offering practices around a theme for the students to unravel from their tension and move away from the ‘doing’ mode.

A sanctuary of 7 nights for calming the inner landscape, releasing held stress, an opportunity to fully down regulate and laugh heartily, opening gently through mind, soul and body and feel fully at ease in resting deeply.

Our Mallorca retreat touched a little deeper, as I witnessed the participants gently transforming throughout the week, some of the participants commented / witnessed the transformation of my teaching and offerings. Through my ten years of being a teacher and 26 years of a yoga practitioner, I’d never be here without the hard lessons I’ve learnt and it’s in those challenges I’ve found my voice and my wisdom.

Our Mallorca retreat was a divine testament to how a consistent daily yoga and meditation practice, supported by healthy offerings of food, warmth and kindness of people (and weather), slowing down, laced with gentle swims, time and space to think / feel, walks and massages, brings you back home to yourself and back to your heart, with fulfilling and beautiful connections which nestle deeply into the cells of the body.

Would you like to join me on a yoga & meditation retreat? Drop me a DM 💕

Morocco 5th Oct 2024 - 7 nights
Turkey 19th April 2025 - 7 nights
Almeria 21st June 2025 - 7 nights
Morocco 13th Sept 2025 - 7 nights

Hey, Hi 💕

How are you all? It’s lovely to be able to say hello to you all after such a long time of not posting 🙂

I had to disappear from social networks while I was in the midst of a mammoth training to be a Yoga Therapist, but now the course has finally finished and I’m free of study, I can say hello again but this time as a Yoga Therapist! (And still a yoga teacher of course)

Taking the yoga therapy training course has been brewing in me for the last 8 years of my teaching, it’s felt like a natural progression, however I didn’t bargain on the gruelling training with an insane amount of case study write ups and far too much computer time, while of course, teaching full time and running retreats. It was hard work and at times tested my endurance and ability to regulate myself from stress but difficulties can give great appreciation. I now truly understand and appreciate anyone who studies / retrains as an adult while juggling ‘adult’ life, it’s damn hard work.

However, I’ve completed and I know it’s the right path as it feels exhilarating - exciting times!!!

So what’s Yoga Therapy?
Yoga therapy is different to what you might see in a general yoga class or 1:1 session.

Yoga therapy sessions work with people who are experiencing a broad ranges of conditions such as PTSD, depression, generalised anxiety disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome to name a few. Sessions are 1:1 and during a session the individual would be shown / empowered with practical tools and practices which they can draw upon in daily life to move from a place of difficulty, in a way to manage and hopefully, move through what they are experiencing in a calm, balanced and healthy way, whether in mind, body, breathing or emotions. Contd in comments

Hey, Hi 💕

How are you all? It’s lovely to be able to say hello to you all after such a long time of not posting 🙂

I had to disappear from social networks while I was in the midst of a mammoth training to be a Yoga Therapist, but now the course has finally finished and I’m free of study, I can say hello again but this time as a Yoga Therapist! (And still a yoga teacher of course)

Taking the yoga therapy training course has been brewing in me for the last 8 years of my teaching, it’s felt like a natural progression, however I didn’t bargain on the gruelling training with an insane amount of case study write ups and far too much computer time, while of course, teaching full time and running retreats. It was hard work and at times tested my endurance and ability to regulate myself from stress but difficulties can give great appreciation. I now truly understand and appreciate anyone who studies / retrains as an adult while juggling ‘adult’ life, it’s damn hard work.

However, I’ve completed and I know it’s the right path as it feels exhilarating - exciting times!!!

So what’s Yoga Therapy?
Yoga therapy is different to what you might see in a general yoga class or 1:1 session.

Yoga therapy sessions work with people who are experiencing a broad ranges of conditions such as PTSD, depression, generalised anxiety disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome to name a few. Sessions are 1:1 and during a session the individual would be shown / empowered with practical tools and practices which they can draw upon in daily life to move from a place of difficulty, in a way to manage and hopefully, move through what they are experiencing in a calm, balanced and healthy way, whether in mind, body, breathing or emotions. Contd in comments

Morocco 2023
Yoga, Qigong and Meditation Retreat

Out of respect I have waited to post about our wonderful retreat which I held in Morocco on 9th Sept.

The retreat got off to a very real start, as the earthquake on the night of my arrival was not a typical day. Thankfully the yogis didn’t arrive until the following afternoon, but the reality was they arrived to an overwhelmed and very tired Paula.
There was no masking that I was shaken by what had happened having never experienced an earthquake.

As the days passed and the yogis fell beautifully into community through morning and evening yoga, qigong, meditation and the magic of what a retreat brings, I realised that as much as I was holding space for them, they were holding space for me to reflect, share and laugh.

There were soul-deepening moments sitting naturally in silence together in the shadow of the mountain, our hearts heavy with the tragedy of what had happened in the higher villages. I asked daily how we could help, which is turns out is a lot harder than I imagined as rescue operations are finely organised.

We shared our lives over beautiful meals, we journaled and dug deep through our practice, slept, moved, stretched, rested, swam, enjoyed hammans, and visited inspiring gardens. The two night stay in Marrakesh was as always enlivening and much fun as we yoga’d on the rooftop as the sun rose over the city and mingle with the amazing friendly locals in the souks.

A truly unforgettable retreat that bought the very heart of humanity to us all.

I will be going back in October 2024, half of the places are gone already, if you’d like to come along to this magical land, get in touch.

Morocco 2023
Yoga, Qigong and Meditation Retreat

Out of respect I have waited to post about our wonderful retreat which I held in Morocco on 9th Sept.

The retreat got off to a very real start, as the earthquake on the night of my arrival was not a typical day. Thankfully the yogis didn’t arrive until the following afternoon, but the reality was they arrived to an overwhelmed and very tired Paula.
There was no masking that I was shaken by what had happened having never experienced an earthquake.

As the days passed and the yogis fell beautifully into community through morning and evening yoga, qigong, meditation and the magic of what a retreat brings, I realised that as much as I was holding space for them, they were holding space for me to reflect, share and laugh.

There were soul-deepening moments sitting naturally in silence together in the shadow of the mountain, our hearts heavy with the tragedy of what had happened in the higher villages. I asked daily how we could help, which is turns out is a lot harder than I imagined as rescue operations are finely organised.

We shared our lives over beautiful meals, we journaled and dug deep through our practice, slept, moved, stretched, rested, swam, enjoyed hammans, and visited inspiring gardens. The two night stay in Marrakesh was as always enlivening and much fun as we yoga’d on the rooftop as the sun rose over the city and mingle with the amazing friendly locals in the souks.

A truly unforgettable retreat that bought the very heart of humanity to us all.

I will be going back in October 2024, half of the places are gone already, if you’d like to come along to this magical land, get in touch.

Thank you to everyone for your outpouring of messages, support and concern over the last 36 hours, sorry I’ve not been able to reply to you all.

As most of you may know by now, there was an earthquake here in Morocco which hit around 11pm on Friday night, the epicentre was 60 miles from where I am staying .

This was a situation that you’re never prepared for, and as of this moment I do not have the words or understanding to say more about how it felt to be in that situation or the suffering and devastation that the earthquake has caused in the villages in the higher Atlas mountains.

My heart is deeply sadden for those severely affect and my thoughts are constantly with them.

Myself and the beautiful locals who live and work as the amazing backbone of this retreat are truly blessed that we were sleeping in a well built modern house at the time of the earthquake, and that we live to breathe in a new day.

Sending love from Morocco 🇲🇦
And Morocco, we love you.

Thank you to everyone for your outpouring of messages, support and concern over the last 36 hours, sorry I’ve not been able to reply to you all.

As most of you may know by now, there was an earthquake here in Morocco which hit around 11pm on Friday night, the epicentre was 60 miles from where I am staying .

This was a situation that you’re never prepared for, and as of this moment I do not have the words or understanding to say more about how it felt to be in that situation or the suffering and devastation that the earthquake has caused in the villages in the higher Atlas mountains.

My heart is deeply sadden for those severely affect and my thoughts are constantly with them.

Myself and the beautiful locals who live and work as the amazing backbone of this retreat are truly blessed that we were sleeping in a well built modern house at the time of the earthquake, and that we live to breathe in a new day.

Sending love from Morocco 🇲🇦
And Morocco, we love you.

Almeria Spain Yoga, Qigong & Meditation Retreat 2023

I’m sat here reflecting through my week of teaching in Almeria, and the enormity of bringing a group of people together to live in a retreat-style community for the week, and how bringing a large group of diverse beings together to share in stillness and movement is a truly enriching experience.

The more retreats I teach, the more I see the difference of how just one week of soul-filling holistic practices, the spaciousness of time to deeply look after yourself from the inside, as well as the therapy of massages and wholesome healthy food can transform a person.

I see it time and time again. From day one when people land in the yoga shala, to when they leave, there’s an unfolding, a releasing…..a relaxing, there’s softening which shows across someone’s forehead, as their eyebrows relax and their eyes grow brighter, wider… clearer. There’s a lightness and ease that grows through people’s smiles, and each footstep the retretants take as the week goes on, gets slower and more steady. The depth of conversation moves deeper and from the heart, while the laugher grows louder, and all who were strangers when they met 7 days ago, now hold each other warmly with closeness that only comes from the what these beautiful weeks can offer.

Even though I say it every time, thank you to all who came along to my retreat in Almeria, it was phenomenal, and a truly nourishing experience.
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Almeria Spain Yoga, Qigong & Meditation Retreat 2023

I’m sat here reflecting through my week of teaching in Almeria, and the enormity of bringing a group of people together to live in a retreat-style community for the week, and how bringing a large group of diverse beings together to share in stillness and movement is a truly enriching experience.

The more retreats I teach, the more I see the difference of how just one week of soul-filling holistic practices, the spaciousness of time to deeply look after yourself from the inside, as well as the therapy of massages and wholesome healthy food can transform a person.

I see it time and time again. From day one when people land in the yoga shala, to when they leave, there’s an unfolding, a releasing…..a relaxing, there’s softening which shows across someone’s forehead, as their eyebrows relax and their eyes grow brighter, wider… clearer. There’s a lightness and ease that grows through people’s smiles, and each footstep the retretants take as the week goes on, gets slower and more steady. The depth of conversation moves deeper and from the heart, while the laugher grows louder, and all who were strangers when they met 7 days ago, now hold each other warmly with closeness that only comes from the what these beautiful weeks can offer.

Even though I say it every time, thank you to all who came along to my retreat in Almeria, it was phenomenal, and a truly nourishing experience.
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I’m finally uploading a mini film memoir of our beautiful nature connection retreat in Devon.

Immersed into guiding 16 wonderful through 6 very full days of deepening our practice through exploring yoga, qigong, meditation and nature connection.

This sharing of space in living and practice for an immersive week is always a joy and enriching experience for me to be witness to, observing people’s growth, freedom and their discoveries.

Our retreat centre in Devon is beyond rich with nature and to able to teach yoga, qigong, meditation and connecting in the wildness of this land with the beautiful souls that joined me, was a wonderful experience.

Retreats are very special moments in time, the beauty we share on these weeks away is a visceral feeling, running deep, not only through the changes and journey that some people take on their week of practice, but also in the depth of having space to themselves, simply to breath and to walk barefoot on the grassy hills that held us.

This was the first time I had run a more ‘formal’ retreat. A lot of the retreats I run are more ‘leisure’ retreats, with a morning and afternoon practice and time for massages, sightseeing / pool time rest in-between.

Our Devon retreat was for exploring deeper connections. I held 4 practices a day;
A morning yoga & qigong
Lunchtime meditation
Afternoon yoga
Evening meditation
With inner practices and projects during the day, with nature connection, re-wilding, conservation talks.

For some there was a depth in connecting back with themselves, for others it was being in community, or the beauty came through connecting with nature and the magic in which our wild Devon home could offers us. We delighted in some yogis sharing their love of song and ukulele around the fire bowl under large open skies. Many laughs echo’d across the hills as people shared time, owl spotting and 5am sunrise together.

Holding space and to watch how this being human unfolds on retreats is such a privilege for me. Thank you deeply to all who joined me for this nature immersed retreat and thank you for being the most kind and open-minded souls.

Much gratitude and love
X

I’m finally uploading a mini film memoir of our beautiful nature connection retreat in Devon.

Immersed into guiding 16 wonderful through 6 very full days of deepening our practice through exploring yoga, qigong, meditation and nature connection.

This sharing of space in living and practice for an immersive week is always a joy and enriching experience for me to be witness to, observing people’s growth, freedom and their discoveries.

Our retreat centre in Devon is beyond rich with nature and to able to teach yoga, qigong, meditation and connecting in the wildness of this land with the beautiful souls that joined me, was a wonderful experience.

Retreats are very special moments in time, the beauty we share on these weeks away is a visceral feeling, running deep, not only through the changes and journey that some people take on their week of practice, but also in the depth of having space to themselves, simply to breath and to walk barefoot on the grassy hills that held us.

This was the first time I had run a more ‘formal’ retreat. A lot of the retreats I run are more ‘leisure’ retreats, with a morning and afternoon practice and time for massages, sightseeing / pool time rest in-between.

Our Devon retreat was for exploring deeper connections. I held 4 practices a day;
A morning yoga & qigong
Lunchtime meditation
Afternoon yoga
Evening meditation
With inner practices and projects during the day, with nature connection, re-wilding, conservation talks.

For some there was a depth in connecting back with themselves, for others it was being in community, or the beauty came through connecting with nature and the magic in which our wild Devon home could offers us. We delighted in some yogis sharing their love of song and ukulele around the fire bowl under large open skies. Many laughs echo’d across the hills as people shared time, owl spotting and 5am sunrise together.

Holding space and to watch how this being human unfolds on retreats is such a privilege for me. Thank you deeply to all who joined me for this nature immersed retreat and thank you for being the most kind and open-minded souls.

Much gratitude and love
X

Hey, hey Everyone
Whoaaaaaaaaa it’s been a while, how ya all doing????
It was the 2nd Feb when I last posted on this Insta life grid, and time has simply flown.

I’ve just been here, living my life and basically forgetting to photograph, caption or upload any of my goings on. I’m thinking of it as living 1980’s style, when we just lived it and didn’t grid it. (Minus the 80s rah rah skirt, Mc Hammer trousers and Wallaby’s…just me or any anyone else own those things?)

So, what’s been happening:
Well the biggest news is that life is good!
I’m happy and healthy, as are my loved ones.
We’re a small family so this is really important for us. Last year, our father experienced a health scare which took us all by surprise, as dad used to walk quicker than any of us in our family and we would have to jog to keep up with him. However, he is really well now.

My gorgeous nephews are making us proud. The eldest is in the middle of his GSCEs and trying his best, and the youngest is wondering how to be a psychologist, an army sergeant and running around the woodland living his best life. My sister is settled and content, witty and sharp as always, and for all of these things I am grateful that life right now is steady and calm.

Aside from the above, the beautiful addition to my life is that I’m currently training to become a YOGA THERAPIST.
It’s a looooong training course, and I ‘should’ be qualified by April ‘24.

This has been a pathway I’ve been interested in for a while, as well as toying with the idea of doing an MA in Art Therapy.
However, the yoga therapy training shone through brighter at this point in time. So I followed the call and here I am, knee deep in books, coursework and case studies wondering what the ‘beeeeeep’ I’m doing with this growing mountain of work I have in front of me. I’ll share more about this when I’m not telling you my life’s story from the past 3 months.

CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….

Hey, hey Everyone
Whoaaaaaaaaa it’s been a while, how ya all doing????
It was the 2nd Feb when I last posted on this Insta life grid, and time has simply flown.

I’ve just been here, living my life and basically forgetting to photograph, caption or upload any of my goings on. I’m thinking of it as living 1980’s style, when we just lived it and didn’t grid it. (Minus the 80s rah rah skirt, Mc Hammer trousers and Wallaby’s…just me or any anyone else own those things?)

So, what’s been happening:
Well the biggest news is that life is good!
I’m happy and healthy, as are my loved ones.
We’re a small family so this is really important for us. Last year, our father experienced a health scare which took us all by surprise, as dad used to walk quicker than any of us in our family and we would have to jog to keep up with him. However, he is really well now.

My gorgeous nephews are making us proud. The eldest is in the middle of his GSCEs and trying his best, and the youngest is wondering how to be a psychologist, an army sergeant and running around the woodland living his best life. My sister is settled and content, witty and sharp as always, and for all of these things I am grateful that life right now is steady and calm.

Aside from the above, the beautiful addition to my life is that I’m currently training to become a YOGA THERAPIST.
It’s a looooong training course, and I ‘should’ be qualified by April ‘24.

This has been a pathway I’ve been interested in for a while, as well as toying with the idea of doing an MA in Art Therapy.
However, the yoga therapy training shone through brighter at this point in time. So I followed the call and here I am, knee deep in books, coursework and case studies wondering what the ‘beeeeeep’ I’m doing with this growing mountain of work I have in front of me. I’ll share more about this when I’m not telling you my life’s story from the past 3 months.

CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….

It’s been a minute or so, since I’ve uploaded artwork from my nature journal.

What does art teach me?

To not be afraid if your art, or day goes wrong.

To not be worried that your pictures and drawing, or things in life are ‘not any good’.

To not knowing the outcome of the finished piece of art, or life.

To being with curiosity, with paint and to our beautiful natural world.

To facing the vastness of a blank canvas….whoaaa that one is way deep…the vastness of everything !!!!.

Sitting with frustration if you’re uninspired to paint…..or do anything.

To be full present….this is always on going work.

Creativity…yes!!!! Always to this, forever.

Love and passion for what I do.

It’s always work in progress.

Art for my inner work.

It’s been a minute or so, since I’ve uploaded artwork from my nature journal.

What does art teach me?

To not be afraid if your art, or day goes wrong.

To not be worried that your pictures and drawing, or things in life are ‘not any good’.

To not knowing the outcome of the finished piece of art, or life.

To being with curiosity, with paint and to our beautiful natural world.

To facing the vastness of a blank canvas….whoaaa that one is way deep…the vastness of everything !!!!.

Sitting with frustration if you’re uninspired to paint…..or do anything.

To be full present….this is always on going work.

Creativity…yes!!!! Always to this, forever.

Love and passion for what I do.

It’s always work in progress.

Art for my inner work.

I was back in the Norfolk retreat home this weekend, with a fabulous group of yogis.

It was blue skies when we arrived on Friday, and as we all hid away in our Norfolk manor house, the belly laughter rang through the walls, as the group bonded so quickly and deeply with much joy and openheartedness….they were all in the right place, at the right time and exactly where they were meant to be at that point in time 💕

Our practice space, the glass ceiling yoga room is simply fantastic, we get to practice yoga & meditation while looking at the wintery clouds passing by and the skeleton tree branches towering overhead each morning, and to enjoy the twinkle of the stars above in the deep black Norfolk sky in our evening sessions.

We ‘wintered’ this weekend.

We rested, we breathed, we shared, stretched, moved and sat in stillness.

We walked by the broads, had a cooking demonstration, and boy oh boy we laughed.

Thank you deeply, and soulfully to all who came along this weekend.

If you’d like to join me on my next winter weekend yoga retreat, please do get in touch, website in bio 💕

I was back in the Norfolk retreat home this weekend, with a fabulous group of yogis.

It was blue skies when we arrived on Friday, and as we all hid away in our Norfolk manor house, the belly laughter rang through the walls, as the group bonded so quickly and deeply with much joy and openheartedness….they were all in the right place, at the right time and exactly where they were meant to be at that point in time 💕

Our practice space, the glass ceiling yoga room is simply fantastic, we get to practice yoga & meditation while looking at the wintery clouds passing by and the skeleton tree branches towering overhead each morning, and to enjoy the twinkle of the stars above in the deep black Norfolk sky in our evening sessions.

We ‘wintered’ this weekend.

We rested, we breathed, we shared, stretched, moved and sat in stillness.

We walked by the broads, had a cooking demonstration, and boy oh boy we laughed.

Thank you deeply, and soulfully to all who came along this weekend.

If you’d like to join me on my next winter weekend yoga retreat, please do get in touch, website in bio 💕

THANK YOU

As we arrive at the end of the year, it feels important to me that I reach out to all those who subscribe to my mailing list and follow me on social media - to say a heartfelt thank you for being interested in my teaching and offerings. I am truly grateful for you all.

I’ve poured my heart and soul into every aspect of my yoga teaching, so knowing that this community is here, fuels my work to be of service through yoga, and ignites my desire to keep learning, researching and reflecting on what I do.

Whether I see you regularly in class, every now and then, or if I haven’t seen you for a while, knowing that you are out there, reading my posts, and emails, engaging with what I teach and the practices I offer, brings me an infinite amount of joy.

Many of you have shown up to class when times have been so, so challenging. Stepping on the mat, through bereavements, break ups, family pain and illness, when your bones have felt creaky, (or with a hangover!🙈🤣), when the snow made the land silent, and when the land was scorched in the heat of August, you were there on the yoga mat.

As I always say, without you I practice yoga.

With you all there, I teach yoga!!!

I truly wish for 2023 to be a bright year of good health and peace for us all.

With much love & light
Paula x

THANK YOU

As we arrive at the end of the year, it feels important to me that I reach out to all those who subscribe to my mailing list and follow me on social media - to say a heartfelt thank you for being interested in my teaching and offerings. I am truly grateful for you all.

I’ve poured my heart and soul into every aspect of my yoga teaching, so knowing that this community is here, fuels my work to be of service through yoga, and ignites my desire to keep learning, researching and reflecting on what I do.

Whether I see you regularly in class, every now and then, or if I haven’t seen you for a while, knowing that you are out there, reading my posts, and emails, engaging with what I teach and the practices I offer, brings me an infinite amount of joy.

Many of you have shown up to class when times have been so, so challenging. Stepping on the mat, through bereavements, break ups, family pain and illness, when your bones have felt creaky, (or with a hangover!🙈🤣), when the snow made the land silent, and when the land was scorched in the heat of August, you were there on the yoga mat.

As I always say, without you I practice yoga.

With you all there, I teach yoga!!!

I truly wish for 2023 to be a bright year of good health and peace for us all.

With much love & light
Paula x

Our Hygge Norfolk yoga retreat.

The Google definition of Hygge (taking time away from the daily rush to be together with people you care about - or even by yourself - to relax and enjoy life’s quieter pleasures)

So my last retreat of 2022 has come to a beautiful end and what gorgeous weekend with wonderful people!

Thank you all who came along, for your energy, presence and open-hearted love this weekend.

Summing up the weekend as I drove home from Norfolk was the Danish word ‘Hygge’. Maybe because one of the participants is Finnish! 💙

We hid away in the middle of nowhere, with warming winter food, comfy clothes, with laid back days in between our physical yoga practices, sounds baths, meditation & qigong.

Plenty of chat and laughter, cake & chocolates and moments wrapped in blankets while reading, candles and a crisp waterside walk.

Oh you beautiful beings who joined me in Norfolk…thank you for the Hygge xxxx

Our Hygge Norfolk yoga retreat.

The Google definition of Hygge (taking time away from the daily rush to be together with people you care about - or even by yourself - to relax and enjoy life’s quieter pleasures)

So my last retreat of 2022 has come to a beautiful end and what gorgeous weekend with wonderful people!

Thank you all who came along, for your energy, presence and open-hearted love this weekend.

Summing up the weekend as I drove home from Norfolk was the Danish word ‘Hygge’. Maybe because one of the participants is Finnish! 💙

We hid away in the middle of nowhere, with warming winter food, comfy clothes, with laid back days in between our physical yoga practices, sounds baths, meditation & qigong.

Plenty of chat and laughter, cake & chocolates and moments wrapped in blankets while reading, candles and a crisp waterside walk.

Oh you beautiful beings who joined me in Norfolk…thank you for the Hygge xxxx

Yoga of Autumn

Release 🧘🏾

Going inwards 🙏

Slowing down 🐢

Reflection 🪞

Gathering 🧺

Harvesting 🌾

Earthing 🌍

Staying grounded 🍁

Connecting 💚

Intimacy 🥰

Yoga of Autumn

Release 🧘🏾

Going inwards 🙏

Slowing down 🐢

Reflection 🪞

Gathering 🧺

Harvesting 🌾

Earthing 🌍

Staying grounded 🍁

Connecting 💚

Intimacy 🥰

21 radiant souls of the September 22 Luton Hoo Yoga Retreat day.

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Forever grateful for the support you all give me with teaching yoga, and trusting me with your time and energy, in classes, on retreats and of course, these retreat days. Also thank you to Yvette Lavender, of The Lavender Practice for her informative talk on gut health, you were a lovely addition to the day.

Sending love, light and health
💕

21 radiant souls of the September 22 Luton Hoo Yoga Retreat day.

🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚

Forever grateful for the support you all give me with teaching yoga, and trusting me with your time and energy, in classes, on retreats and of course, these retreat days. Also thank you to Yvette Lavender, of The Lavender Practice for her informative talk on gut health, you were a lovely addition to the day.

Sending love, light and health
💕

Morocco Yoga retreat 2022

What an extraordinary retreat. Nearly three years in the making and finally the blossoming of this two part yoga retreat flowered!

Though our 7 days in the land of Moroccan vibrancy and calm, time literally stood still, 7 days felt like longer as we stepped out of the day to day routine and into a retreat of countryside and city.

Part one was in the Moroccan countryside amongst Berber villages with vast and inspiring views of the Atlas Mountains. Experiencing Moroccan life in the farmland was an unforgettable experience, then it was onto Marrakesh for two nights. Staying within the old medina walls.

For me Marrakesh medina is like returning to a lively old friend that changes your thinking and gives you a zest for life and vibrancy, before guiding you back home each evening to the calm of the Riad (a traditional house / now hotels of Marrakesh) and the people of Morocco are simply beautiful souls. Friendly, helpful and everything is ‘as you like’ 💕

Now, what to say of the group of yogis who shared their time with me in Morocco!!!…You all have a part of my heart beautiful people. I am always in awe of how yoga lands on each individual, the processing, the reflection the growth and openness that is born from stepping on the mat each day and that only comes from allowing yourself to feel into the vulnerability of what is arising moment to moment. This group bonded so quickly and journeyed deeply, together through much sharing, love and care, oh….and so much laughter….I don’t think I’ve ever known a group to laugh like they did, with a particular breathing practice ending up one of the funniest classes I’ve held. Thank you all for the joy and coming along on retreat with me. Much love to you all, it’s been a pleasure to spend this week with you. 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

If you’d like to join me on retreat in Morocco in Sept 2023, the link is in my bio💕🌸💕

Morocco Yoga retreat 2022

What an extraordinary retreat. Nearly three years in the making and finally the blossoming of this two part yoga retreat flowered!

Though our 7 days in the land of Moroccan vibrancy and calm, time literally stood still, 7 days felt like longer as we stepped out of the day to day routine and into a retreat of countryside and city.

Part one was in the Moroccan countryside amongst Berber villages with vast and inspiring views of the Atlas Mountains. Experiencing Moroccan life in the farmland was an unforgettable experience, then it was onto Marrakesh for two nights. Staying within the old medina walls.

For me Marrakesh medina is like returning to a lively old friend that changes your thinking and gives you a zest for life and vibrancy, before guiding you back home each evening to the calm of the Riad (a traditional house / now hotels of Marrakesh) and the people of Morocco are simply beautiful souls. Friendly, helpful and everything is ‘as you like’ 💕

Now, what to say of the group of yogis who shared their time with me in Morocco!!!…You all have a part of my heart beautiful people. I am always in awe of how yoga lands on each individual, the processing, the reflection the growth and openness that is born from stepping on the mat each day and that only comes from allowing yourself to feel into the vulnerability of what is arising moment to moment. This group bonded so quickly and journeyed deeply, together through much sharing, love and care, oh….and so much laughter….I don’t think I’ve ever known a group to laugh like they did, with a particular breathing practice ending up one of the funniest classes I’ve held. Thank you all for the joy and coming along on retreat with me. Much love to you all, it’s been a pleasure to spend this week with you. 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

If you’d like to join me on retreat in Morocco in Sept 2023, the link is in my bio💕🌸💕

Finally getting around to posting a little reel about last weekend’s yoga & qigong retreat at Knepp.

Sharing these holistic practices in what I feel is ecology heaven, is an absolute blessing.

What a weekend!!! And what a group of humans to share this experience with!!!

The sun shone, the sunsets were stunning, we laughed, shed a few tears, rested, walked, celebrated a Yoginis birthday and stretched.

The wildlife did not disappoint even down to being lucky enough to see and photograph (see the reel) two very rare butterflies. A Purple Emporia and White Admiral butterfly 🦋

The stags were roaming in view of the yoga yurt for our evening practice, and the veil of peace that washed over all of us for the weekend was palpable.

Knepp oozes so much love for our more than human friends and advanced ecological care, that it is hard not to be enthralled at every tree and insect.

Much love to all who came along

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Finally getting around to posting a little reel about last weekend’s yoga & qigong retreat at Knepp.

Sharing these holistic practices in what I feel is ecology heaven, is an absolute blessing.

What a weekend!!! And what a group of humans to share this experience with!!!

The sun shone, the sunsets were stunning, we laughed, shed a few tears, rested, walked, celebrated a Yoginis birthday and stretched.

The wildlife did not disappoint even down to being lucky enough to see and photograph (see the reel) two very rare butterflies. A Purple Emporia and White Admiral butterfly 🦋

The stags were roaming in view of the yoga yurt for our evening practice, and the veil of peace that washed over all of us for the weekend was palpable.

Knepp oozes so much love for our more than human friends and advanced ecological care, that it is hard not to be enthralled at every tree and insect.

Much love to all who came along

🌱🌿💚🌳🦋🌱🌿💚🦋🌱🌿🦋💚🌳

Almeria Yoga Retreat 2022

A tiny glimpse of our yoga retreat last week. What a delightful week teaching on retreat in the Spanish countryside.

To express our little community contained within our boho Spanish farm for 7 nights, is nearly impossible to convey over a 1 minute instagram post.

The peace, practices and often personal growth that comes from diving deep for a full week, into beauty and benefits of holistic practices is a huge pleasure to be part of.

A heartfelt thank you and much love to all who came along.

Xxx

Almeria Yoga Retreat 2022

A tiny glimpse of our yoga retreat last week. What a delightful week teaching on retreat in the Spanish countryside.

To express our little community contained within our boho Spanish farm for 7 nights, is nearly impossible to convey over a 1 minute instagram post.

The peace, practices and often personal growth that comes from diving deep for a full week, into beauty and benefits of holistic practices is a huge pleasure to be part of.

A heartfelt thank you and much love to all who came along.

Xxx

Freedom in body, mind, creativity, breath, heart and soul.
Forever thankful 💕🙏💕

Freedom in body, mind, creativity, breath, heart and soul.
Forever thankful 💕🙏💕

Yoga classes starting back tomorrow.

New courses and drop in sessions for the summer term.

I look forward to seeing you on the mat beautiful people 🙏

Yoga classes starting back tomorrow.

New courses and drop in sessions for the summer term.

I look forward to seeing you on the mat beautiful people 🙏

Stretching into the Ibiza vibes

Feeling rested and energised and looking forward to seeing all in class next week. Back teaching on Wednesday 💕

💕🌊☀️💃🏼🌸💕🌊☀️💃🏼🌸

Stretching into the Ibiza vibes

Feeling rested and energised and looking forward to seeing all in class next week. Back teaching on Wednesday 💕

💕🌊☀️💃🏼🌸💕🌊☀️💃🏼🌸

A little revamp of a doodle I did.

Take a moment to offer respect to your body. It works so hard for you and if you are reading this, your body has seen you through a pandemic. 💕
Treat it with kindness, nourish it well, physically and mentally, be gentle with yourself and know you’re doing great, really great, more than great…this life doesn’t come with a manual.

May each of your cells know peace and freedom on this earth.
Blessings of love to you all on this sunny Saturday morning. 💕

A little revamp of a doodle I did.

Take a moment to offer respect to your body. It works so hard for you and if you are reading this, your body has seen you through a pandemic. 💕
Treat it with kindness, nourish it well, physically and mentally, be gentle with yourself and know you’re doing great, really great, more than great…this life doesn’t come with a manual.

May each of your cells know peace and freedom on this earth.
Blessings of love to you all on this sunny Saturday morning. 💕

Yoga, Breathe & Be Still
Wednesdays 12:30pm
Hatfield, Hertfordshire

Yoga Breathe & Be Still is an antidote to a busy life. A class which offers more practices to soothe feelings of stress & over-whelm. To help quieten the mind through breathing and guided meditation practices, allowing us to down regulating the nervous system, as well as offering the opportunity to stretch out tight and tired muscles.

This class focuses not just on the physical movements of yoga. There will be a 50% focus on Pranayama (breathing), meditation and relaxation practices, and a 50% focus on Asana (the physical yoga stretches & movements)

Link in BIO for more information / to book

Yoga, Breathe & Be Still
Wednesdays 12:30pm
Hatfield, Hertfordshire

Yoga Breathe & Be Still is an antidote to a busy life. A class which offers more practices to soothe feelings of stress & over-whelm. To help quieten the mind through breathing and guided meditation practices, allowing us to down regulating the nervous system, as well as offering the opportunity to stretch out tight and tired muscles.

This class focuses not just on the physical movements of yoga. There will be a 50% focus on Pranayama (breathing), meditation and relaxation practices, and a 50% focus on Asana (the physical yoga stretches & movements)

Link in BIO for more information / to book

Spring reveals the secrets of nature that the winter months have been hiding.

The fleeting April sun plays with us. Peeling away layers of winter stagnancy and items of clothes along with it.

I come alive in spring. My vibrancy and energy increases. Spring brings a desire in me to move into the new, to find the fresh and seek new challenges.

When the leaves are unfurling and showing the fullness of their unique shapes, and the buds are revealing to the world the beauty of their blossoms and blooms, it give me inspiration, daring myself to blossom and bloom just a bit more, to show my fullest colours a little brighter, opening and embracing more and more each year to this one precious life that I have the privilege of experiencing.

Photos were taken on my Lomography Diana+ film camera.
Photo two and three is a double exposure, taken by rewinding the film and shooting back over the original photo.

Spring reveals the secrets of nature that the winter months have been hiding.

The fleeting April sun plays with us. Peeling away layers of winter stagnancy and items of clothes along with it.

I come alive in spring. My vibrancy and energy increases. Spring brings a desire in me to move into the new, to find the fresh and seek new challenges.

When the leaves are unfurling and showing the fullness of their unique shapes, and the buds are revealing to the world the beauty of their blossoms and blooms, it give me inspiration, daring myself to blossom and bloom just a bit more, to show my fullest colours a little brighter, opening and embracing more and more each year to this one precious life that I have the privilege of experiencing.

Photos were taken on my Lomography Diana+ film camera.
Photo two and three is a double exposure, taken by rewinding the film and shooting back over the original photo.

Reflecting on my little yoga studio

This humble space of mine has been witness too much of this being human.

I starting welcoming people into my little studio in January 2018, and over the last four years this room has bear witness to much of life. It’s an unassuming room that has forged meaningful and personal connections.

A space that’s had the privilege to see beautiful baby bumps grow and blossom, while mothers-to-be become a support to each other.

It’s a room where the walls soak up the nerves of first time yogis, as they tentatively step on the mat to connect back to their body after years of abandoning themselves.

It’s a space that continues to witness the releasing of stress and the softening of anxiety, a room that has seen the ‘work’ put in, where embodied humans, try and then try again to move through particular postures or to be still in body and mind.

There’s a strength in these walls that has held many a person’s grief. Supporting the saddest of news with tenderness, and those the same walls have bathed in the joy of laughter, the goofiness of mistakes, and the hope of the new.

The skylights have seen the softening of cells through the tones of sound baths and the floor has breathed while its participants lay motionless looking up into the night sky.

It’s a space that continues to be a sanctuary for the overwhelmed mother, the overworked father, the under pressure grandma who holds the love and fears of this world for both her child and grandchildren.

It’s a space where the rigid and immobile grandfather discovers movement again, a place where the 90 year old takes refuge from their ageing body while enlivening their vibrant mind; a place where those affected by cancer take the first steps to trust back in their body.

For me there is a promise to a room with no furniture, a room with little distraction, it feels to me that when a space is used solely for yoga, it holds the energy, of all that it is to be human within the walls.

And when he door shuts each night (to make sure the cats don’t go in there) that energy is palpable.

It’s a space that I call home. 🙏

Reflecting on my little yoga studio

This humble space of mine has been witness too much of this being human.

I starting welcoming people into my little studio in January 2018, and over the last four years this room has bear witness to much of life. It’s an unassuming room that has forged meaningful and personal connections.

A space that’s had the privilege to see beautiful baby bumps grow and blossom, while mothers-to-be become a support to each other.

It’s a room where the walls soak up the nerves of first time yogis, as they tentatively step on the mat to connect back to their body after years of abandoning themselves.

It’s a space that continues to witness the releasing of stress and the softening of anxiety, a room that has seen the ‘work’ put in, where embodied humans, try and then try again to move through particular postures or to be still in body and mind.

There’s a strength in these walls that has held many a person’s grief. Supporting the saddest of news with tenderness, and those the same walls have bathed in the joy of laughter, the goofiness of mistakes, and the hope of the new.

The skylights have seen the softening of cells through the tones of sound baths and the floor has breathed while its participants lay motionless looking up into the night sky.

It’s a space that continues to be a sanctuary for the overwhelmed mother, the overworked father, the under pressure grandma who holds the love and fears of this world for both her child and grandchildren.

It’s a space where the rigid and immobile grandfather discovers movement again, a place where the 90 year old takes refuge from their ageing body while enlivening their vibrant mind; a place where those affected by cancer take the first steps to trust back in their body.

For me there is a promise to a room with no furniture, a room with little distraction, it feels to me that when a space is used solely for yoga, it holds the energy, of all that it is to be human within the walls.

And when he door shuts each night (to make sure the cats don’t go in there) that energy is palpable.

It’s a space that I call home. 🙏

Yoga Retreat Spain

3 months and 2 days until our yoga retreat in Spain.

As the sun shines here in the south east today, I am feeling excited for our Spanish retreat

What joy and a privilege to be able to teach at this stunning boho chic venue again where the mountainous views are vast and the sky is a shade of Cobalt blue that glows with Spanish sun.

The last retreat I ran here was in 2019, and unknown to me at the time, this classic Spanish finca and cotijos opened up the opportunity for some amazingly strong friendships to be formed, beyond beautiful support groups that have stayed close through the day to day of Hertfordshire life.

Refuge and rest is called for within these 30 acres of surrounding olive and citrus groves and the naturally-filtered fresh water pool (as well as a traditional swimming pool) gives the pleasure to refresh and cool down under the Spanish sun.

The yoga Shala is our house for the inner work, our reflections, our revitalising and restoring through stillness, movement, breathing and contemplation.

When I was here in 2019, Jasmine plants were growing on many of the terraces, the smell was sweet and soothing for my soul. The birds sang in the coolness of morning and took midday shelter from the sun in the palm groves, where Aloe Vera was growing wild.

Not far from our retreat, many of the beaches are untouched, wild and beautiful as nature intended, a landscape that humbles our humanity into realising we are a drop in the vast worldly oceans.

It feels so right…it feels completely needed….. and oh so exciting to be sharing the beauty of yoga and Qi Gong in such an authentically Spanish setting again.

The 2022 retreat is fully booked but if you’re interested for 2023 please feel free to get in touch with me. 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

Yoga Retreat Spain

3 months and 2 days until our yoga retreat in Spain.

As the sun shines here in the south east today, I am feeling excited for our Spanish retreat

What joy and a privilege to be able to teach at this stunning boho chic venue again where the mountainous views are vast and the sky is a shade of Cobalt blue that glows with Spanish sun.

The last retreat I ran here was in 2019, and unknown to me at the time, this classic Spanish finca and cotijos opened up the opportunity for some amazingly strong friendships to be formed, beyond beautiful support groups that have stayed close through the day to day of Hertfordshire life.

Refuge and rest is called for within these 30 acres of surrounding olive and citrus groves and the naturally-filtered fresh water pool (as well as a traditional swimming pool) gives the pleasure to refresh and cool down under the Spanish sun.

The yoga Shala is our house for the inner work, our reflections, our revitalising and restoring through stillness, movement, breathing and contemplation.

When I was here in 2019, Jasmine plants were growing on many of the terraces, the smell was sweet and soothing for my soul. The birds sang in the coolness of morning and took midday shelter from the sun in the palm groves, where Aloe Vera was growing wild.

Not far from our retreat, many of the beaches are untouched, wild and beautiful as nature intended, a landscape that humbles our humanity into realising we are a drop in the vast worldly oceans.

It feels so right…it feels completely needed….. and oh so exciting to be sharing the beauty of yoga and Qi Gong in such an authentically Spanish setting again.

The 2022 retreat is fully booked but if you’re interested for 2023 please feel free to get in touch with me. 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

For me, nature’s spring flowers are offering a kind glow of light and a gentle glimmer of brightness in a world where humanity is feeling heavy. 💛💚💛💚💛💚💛

For me, nature’s spring flowers are offering a kind glow of light and a gentle glimmer of brightness in a world where humanity is feeling heavy. 💛💚💛💚💛💚💛

In celebration of all the amazing, smart, hardworking, kind, generous, loving, beautiful, brave, selfless, radiant souls of female essence who grace this earth with their light!

Much love to those I do not have a photo of and I couldn’t fit into a 1 minute reel, I was very much thinking of all those I have met when I put this little montage together. ❤️

In celebration of all the amazing, smart, hardworking, kind, generous, loving, beautiful, brave, selfless, radiant souls of female essence who grace this earth with their light!

Much love to those I do not have a photo of and I couldn’t fit into a 1 minute reel, I was very much thinking of all those I have met when I put this little montage together. ❤️

Here’s a little cartoon I drew from inspiration a few weeks back.
As I carted myself off to do a yoga class (as the participant, not as the teacher ) my hormones and emotions were weighing down on me and many of my thoughts were magnified.

So I packed up my yoga ‘stuff’, along with my emotional baggage and thought….this would be a good cartoon!!! And here it is!!!

As that meme says…..”I’ve got 99 problems but going to yoga to ignore them all for an hour!!”

Here’s a little cartoon I drew from inspiration a few weeks back.
As I carted myself off to do a yoga class (as the participant, not as the teacher ) my hormones and emotions were weighing down on me and many of my thoughts were magnified.

So I packed up my yoga ‘stuff’, along with my emotional baggage and thought….this would be a good cartoon!!! And here it is!!!

As that meme says…..”I’ve got 99 problems but going to yoga to ignore them all for an hour!!”

Finding awe in the ordinary, embracing wonder in the everyday

Bark life!

I’ve been enjoying the uniqueness of our leafy tree friends. These magnificently rooted structure’s are giving me much inspiration with the uniqueness of their bark.

I’ve always been in awe of our tree companions, most are way older than I’ll ever be!!!

Imagine growing from a seed, to 150 years old. Surviving wars, storms, droughts, disease, seeing the world change drastically and adapting to survive, being responsible for giving shelter to much life, while taking in carbon dioxide, so us humans can walk this planet and breathe.

Trees are smart! In a forest, tree parents live together with their tree children, their root systems communicating with other nearby trees. They secrete chemicals into the soil, which sends signals to other trees and plants in that rooted area.

The trees share information through their underground communication network such as if there’s an insect attack, a drought or if particular trees are in need of help, then they send signals to pump water / nutrients to the trees in need.

But my inspiration has been with the tree bark. The main function of bark is to protect the tree, just as our skin protects the inner organs of our body.

Look how unique each photo above is, how each tree has it’s own bark thumb print, beautifully diverse, similar to our human skin. With many colours and shades, with perfect pigmentations and textures, impurities, and freshness, diseased or flourishing, smooth or ageing, young or dry, bark still stands proud, for a tree, ageing is a sign of strength.

The diversity and uniqueness of a tree’s skin, is one of the things that makes a forrest beautiful. Trees embrace the skin their in….an Oak Tree doesn’t dream about being a Silver Birch, instead it focuses on flourishing, reaching to the sun, communicating to it’s network, supporting it’s community and growing very strong roots to weather the storms.

Finding awe in the ordinary, embracing wonder in the everyday

Bark life!

I’ve been enjoying the uniqueness of our leafy tree friends. These magnificently rooted structure’s are giving me much inspiration with the uniqueness of their bark.

I’ve always been in awe of our tree companions, most are way older than I’ll ever be!!!

Imagine growing from a seed, to 150 years old. Surviving wars, storms, droughts, disease, seeing the world change drastically and adapting to survive, being responsible for giving shelter to much life, while taking in carbon dioxide, so us humans can walk this planet and breathe.

Trees are smart! In a forest, tree parents live together with their tree children, their root systems communicating with other nearby trees. They secrete chemicals into the soil, which sends signals to other trees and plants in that rooted area.

The trees share information through their underground communication network such as if there’s an insect attack, a drought or if particular trees are in need of help, then they send signals to pump water / nutrients to the trees in need.

But my inspiration has been with the tree bark. The main function of bark is to protect the tree, just as our skin protects the inner organs of our body.

Look how unique each photo above is, how each tree has it’s own bark thumb print, beautifully diverse, similar to our human skin. With many colours and shades, with perfect pigmentations and textures, impurities, and freshness, diseased or flourishing, smooth or ageing, young or dry, bark still stands proud, for a tree, ageing is a sign of strength.

The diversity and uniqueness of a tree’s skin, is one of the things that makes a forrest beautiful. Trees embrace the skin their in….an Oak Tree doesn’t dream about being a Silver Birch, instead it focuses on flourishing, reaching to the sun, communicating to it’s network, supporting it’s community and growing very strong roots to weather the storms.

To feel the calm after the storm.

To be in my body, away from the stories of my mind.

To breathe in

To breathe out

To move

To play

To be willing

To be motivated

To explore potential

To feel it all

To open fully

To release completely

To feel what it’s like to step on the yoga mat and be at one with body, mind, breathe and soul, is to feel fully present.

See you on the mat 🤍

To feel the calm after the storm.

To be in my body, away from the stories of my mind.

To breathe in

To breathe out

To move

To play

To be willing

To be motivated

To explore potential

To feel it all

To open fully

To release completely

To feel what it’s like to step on the yoga mat and be at one with body, mind, breathe and soul, is to feel fully present.

See you on the mat 🤍

Art

The ability to draw is not needed in art.

There’s no need to be a wonderful painter.

Or to know how to use art materials perfectly.

All that is required to be creative is a curiosity to see where it will take you.

So, make some marks.

Add some colour to a page.

Move your arm to express yourself as it affects your heart (seriously, the fascial system runs through the hand to the heart, so when you move your arm to write or paint or play an instrument, it has an affect on the connective tissue around the heart!!….blinkin’ amazing huh!!)

So here’s what I’ve started to be curious about in my new sketchbook. Usually I have an idea of how something is going to look before I start painting it, I plan it out and figure the colour palette before hand…. But in this sketchbook I am trying something different…I’m moving the paint brush from my heart, with a wildness of brushstroke, with no agenda and not knowing the outcome of how I would like it to look.

Now…to practice that a little more in my life…moving from my heart, with a wildness, with no agenda and not knowing the outcome of how I would like it to look 💚💚💚💚

Art

The ability to draw is not needed in art.

There’s no need to be a wonderful painter.

Or to know how to use art materials perfectly.

All that is required to be creative is a curiosity to see where it will take you.

So, make some marks.

Add some colour to a page.

Move your arm to express yourself as it affects your heart (seriously, the fascial system runs through the hand to the heart, so when you move your arm to write or paint or play an instrument, it has an affect on the connective tissue around the heart!!….blinkin’ amazing huh!!)

So here’s what I’ve started to be curious about in my new sketchbook. Usually I have an idea of how something is going to look before I start painting it, I plan it out and figure the colour palette before hand…. But in this sketchbook I am trying something different…I’m moving the paint brush from my heart, with a wildness of brushstroke, with no agenda and not knowing the outcome of how I would like it to look.

Now…to practice that a little more in my life…moving from my heart, with a wildness, with no agenda and not knowing the outcome of how I would like it to look 💚💚💚💚

Does anyone else enjoy our mossy green landscape ?🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚🌏

Take a moment with me, to really look and see what our vibrant green mossy friends offer💚

Winter pulls the life out of the land, it’s the time of year when most of nature rests and restores.
Under tree roots and fallen branches, our ‘more than human’ companions are pausing and sleeping in dens and barrows, breathing their little souls into warmth, as they hide from winter’s wrath.

Below the grey but above the hibernating homes, stands our winter forrest. Beautifully bare trees, gnarly and skeletal against a watery winter sky.

Their naked branches seizing the opportunity to stand proud and show their silvery-brown skin where once only the splendour of spring blossom and the fireworks of autumn leaves once stole the show!

As I look through the sleeping forest, past the resting trees, there is a natural brightness tumbling over tree roots and growing through the austere land.
A velvety green carpeting the surface of badger’s den, creeping over tree stumps, where the family of foxes hide beneath. An emerald green coat dripping around fallen branches,pressed codependently into brick walls, a vibrant rug of colour, winter’s wonderful moss, the land of luscious lichen.

Sure, us humans would strive for perfect and dowse any unsightly moss or lichen that encroached our way….but if we take a moment to really look and let ourselves see the detail, each strand of the mossy micro leaf, or the perfectly formed microclimate, perhaps if we felt the softness or appreciated the luminous lichen colour against the barren winter forrest, this green child of the woods would makes the dullest of days a little more fresh and vibrant.

What’s the difference between moss and lichen? In my basic understanding, moss is a plant and Lichen is fungi-algae!??!

Still need convincing about our mossy friends?

During World War II, some moss was used to dress soldiers’ wounds and prevent blood loss as they created good bandages absorbed well & soothed the infection with their anti-bacterial properties.

Marvellous moss,
Lingering at lichen
Enjoy nature’s winter show.

🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚

Does anyone else enjoy our mossy green landscape ?🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚🌏

Take a moment with me, to really look and see what our vibrant green mossy friends offer💚

Winter pulls the life out of the land, it’s the time of year when most of nature rests and restores.
Under tree roots and fallen branches, our ‘more than human’ companions are pausing and sleeping in dens and barrows, breathing their little souls into warmth, as they hide from winter’s wrath.

Below the grey but above the hibernating homes, stands our winter forrest. Beautifully bare trees, gnarly and skeletal against a watery winter sky.

Their naked branches seizing the opportunity to stand proud and show their silvery-brown skin where once only the splendour of spring blossom and the fireworks of autumn leaves once stole the show!

As I look through the sleeping forest, past the resting trees, there is a natural brightness tumbling over tree roots and growing through the austere land.
A velvety green carpeting the surface of badger’s den, creeping over tree stumps, where the family of foxes hide beneath. An emerald green coat dripping around fallen branches,pressed codependently into brick walls, a vibrant rug of colour, winter’s wonderful moss, the land of luscious lichen.

Sure, us humans would strive for perfect and dowse any unsightly moss or lichen that encroached our way….but if we take a moment to really look and let ourselves see the detail, each strand of the mossy micro leaf, or the perfectly formed microclimate, perhaps if we felt the softness or appreciated the luminous lichen colour against the barren winter forrest, this green child of the woods would makes the dullest of days a little more fresh and vibrant.

What’s the difference between moss and lichen? In my basic understanding, moss is a plant and Lichen is fungi-algae!??!

Still need convincing about our mossy friends?

During World War II, some moss was used to dress soldiers’ wounds and prevent blood loss as they created good bandages absorbed well & soothed the infection with their anti-bacterial properties.

Marvellous moss,
Lingering at lichen
Enjoy nature’s winter show.

🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚🌏💚

“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

-Agatha Christie -

I’ve read and reread this quote often over the last few months.

For me, it is such a perfectly human statement…..”Sometimes wildly despairing, sometimes racked with sorrow”…but to still know that being alive is a grand thing, what poetry!!!…As Mel Robbins voiced in a Ted Talk, the odds of YOU…and the odds of ME being born is 1 in 400 trillion, what a miracle!

Let’s enjoy this miracle 🤍🤍

“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

-Agatha Christie -

I’ve read and reread this quote often over the last few months.

For me, it is such a perfectly human statement…..”Sometimes wildly despairing, sometimes racked with sorrow”…but to still know that being alive is a grand thing, what poetry!!!…As Mel Robbins voiced in a Ted Talk, the odds of YOU…and the odds of ME being born is 1 in 400 trillion, what a miracle!

Let’s enjoy this miracle 🤍🤍

This morning was the perfect morning to see the icy splendour of nature’s winter show! So here are a few snaps from my morning walk 💓

There are strange and mysterious sounds  When the winds of winter blow,  The long nights are crystal clear and cold,  And the fields and meadows are covered with snow.  The stars are frosty against the sky,  And the wind's whistle is shrill,  As the snow blows against the house  And drifts against the hill.  Yet, I like to see during the winter  A white carpet on the ground,  To plod aimlessly in the deep snow,  where deer tracks abound.  I like to feel the stillness  Of a crisp winter's night,  Watching a full moon rise over the horizon,  Exposing a winter wonderland beautiful and bright.

-Joseph T. Renaldi-

This morning was the perfect morning to see the icy splendour of nature’s winter show! So here are a few snaps from my morning walk 💓

There are strange and mysterious sounds  When the winds of winter blow,  The long nights are crystal clear and cold,  And the fields and meadows are covered with snow.  The stars are frosty against the sky,  And the wind's whistle is shrill,  As the snow blows against the house  And drifts against the hill.  Yet, I like to see during the winter  A white carpet on the ground,  To plod aimlessly in the deep snow,  where deer tracks abound.  I like to feel the stillness  Of a crisp winter's night,  Watching a full moon rise over the horizon,  Exposing a winter wonderland beautiful and bright.

-Joseph T. Renaldi-

Hello 2022⁠
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Here's to a light and lifted 2022 ⁠
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May your year be everything you wish it to be.⁠
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🎨🧑‍🎨@heyheykarma

Hello 2022⁠
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Here's to a light and lifted 2022 ⁠
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May your year be everything you wish it to be.⁠
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🎨🧑‍🎨@heyheykarma

A little practice I like to do at the end of the year is to ask myself what I’m thankful for over the past year. I rarely share this type of personal thinking but this year I thought I would, hence the first thank you!!!⁠
What are you thankful for from 2021?⁠
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2021.....⁠
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Thank you 2021 for making me braver⁠
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Thank you 2021 for opening me further to my life⁠
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Thank you 2021 for my freedom⁠
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Thank you 2021 for allowing my own creativity⁠
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Thank you 2021 for showing me other ways⁠
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Thank you 2021 for helping me cope with uncertainty⁠
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Thank you 2021 for letting me breath better⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the nature around me⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the yoga⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the amazing community around me⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the health of my loved one⁠s⁠
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Thank you 2021 for my health⁠
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Thank you to 2021 in helping me speak up⁠
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Thank you 2021 for all the new people I have met⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the NHS⁠
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Thank you 2021 for my resilience.⁠ 🙏

A little practice I like to do at the end of the year is to ask myself what I’m thankful for over the past year. I rarely share this type of personal thinking but this year I thought I would, hence the first thank you!!!⁠
What are you thankful for from 2021?⁠
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2021.....⁠
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Thank you 2021 for making me braver⁠
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Thank you 2021 for opening me further to my life⁠
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Thank you 2021 for my freedom⁠
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Thank you 2021 for allowing my own creativity⁠
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Thank you 2021 for showing me other ways⁠
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Thank you 2021 for helping me cope with uncertainty⁠
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Thank you 2021 for letting me breath better⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the nature around me⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the yoga⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the amazing community around me⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the health of my loved one⁠s⁠
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Thank you 2021 for my health⁠
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Thank you to 2021 in helping me speak up⁠
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Thank you 2021 for all the new people I have met⁠
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Thank you 2021 for the NHS⁠
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Thank you 2021 for my resilience.⁠ 🙏

We are nearly at the end of 2021 and I would like to thank all of you for the support, joy, movement, laughter, emotion, stillness and connection that you have shown over this past year.⁠
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I am always thankful to this community.⁠
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Thank you for your support⁠
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Wishing you all a healthy and loving 2022.⁠
Love Paula xx

We are nearly at the end of 2021 and I would like to thank all of you for the support, joy, movement, laughter, emotion, stillness and connection that you have shown over this past year.⁠
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I am always thankful to this community.⁠
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Thank you for your support⁠
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Wishing you all a healthy and loving 2022.⁠
Love Paula xx

With all that’s going on in the world, I thought I’d post something a little lighter.

Nature grows golden hearts. 🧡

This little painting is from back in October when I became inspired by Chinese lantern plants which were popping up in surprising places.

Little papery golden hearts, blooming bright orange when so much of nature was succumbing to the withering of autumn.

Thank you @emmaaustingardendesigns for digging up some lantern roots to plant in my garden, ready for next year. 🧡

With all that’s going on in the world, I thought I’d post something a little lighter.

Nature grows golden hearts. 🧡

This little painting is from back in October when I became inspired by Chinese lantern plants which were popping up in surprising places.

Little papery golden hearts, blooming bright orange when so much of nature was succumbing to the withering of autumn.

Thank you @emmaaustingardendesigns for digging up some lantern roots to plant in my garden, ready for next year. 🧡

The latest of my yoga doodles.

I was reminded of this feeling in an online class I took recently. I’ve been here so many times thinking….”Oh nooooooo, sod your backbend, just let me lay down and stare at the ceiling damn it” 🙈 can any one with me on this one?? 😂

I’m giving full permission to everyone who attends my classes to stare at the ceiling and skip the backbends when you just wanna chill !!! 😃😃😃🤣😀😀💤💤💤

The latest of my yoga doodles.

I was reminded of this feeling in an online class I took recently. I’ve been here so many times thinking….”Oh nooooooo, sod your backbend, just let me lay down and stare at the ceiling damn it” 🙈 can any one with me on this one?? 😂

I’m giving full permission to everyone who attends my classes to stare at the ceiling and skip the backbends when you just wanna chill !!! 😃😃😃🤣😀😀💤💤💤

Circa 2013

My first ever ‘yoga’ picture

Last night I was reminded of the first ever ‘yoga’ picture that was taken of me.

An off the cuff photo snapped on West Wittering beach as I felt a spontaneity of the pose and in awe of the horse riders on that wintry day.
I remember jumping into view to bust out a pose while my mate Bri whipped into action with a crappy handheld pocket camera. Nothing staged, nothing considered but wild enjoyment of the moment.

Before this picture, the idea of having a photo taken of me in a yoga pose was an alien concept….back then the idea of it would have been like someone taking a photo of me washing my face!!! (It’s just not that interesting right?!?!)

Like many my age, social media isn’t something we grew with in our teens, 20s and 30s. We didn’t photograph it…..we only experienced it. We didn’t share pictures unless in printed form collected from Boots the chemist on a Saturday afternoon and shown to family over a Sunday lunch. We didn’t ‘hashtag’ in public forums, we talked in person about everything we had been up to.

When I started yoga in 1997, yoga postures (asana) was simply something that I‘d ‘been up to’ a class that I ‘did’, while hidden in a village hall on a Tuesday evening which made me feel good . Young Paula would never have dreamt back then that yoga would be a photographed ‘thang’ but here we are, here we have grown.

🐎 🧘🏿‍♂️ 🐎🧘🏾‍♂️🐎🧘🏼‍♂️🐎🧘🏾‍♂️🐎🧘🏿‍♂️🐎🧘🏾‍♂️

Circa 2013

My first ever ‘yoga’ picture

Last night I was reminded of the first ever ‘yoga’ picture that was taken of me.

An off the cuff photo snapped on West Wittering beach as I felt a spontaneity of the pose and in awe of the horse riders on that wintry day.
I remember jumping into view to bust out a pose while my mate Bri whipped into action with a crappy handheld pocket camera. Nothing staged, nothing considered but wild enjoyment of the moment.

Before this picture, the idea of having a photo taken of me in a yoga pose was an alien concept….back then the idea of it would have been like someone taking a photo of me washing my face!!! (It’s just not that interesting right?!?!)

Like many my age, social media isn’t something we grew with in our teens, 20s and 30s. We didn’t photograph it…..we only experienced it. We didn’t share pictures unless in printed form collected from Boots the chemist on a Saturday afternoon and shown to family over a Sunday lunch. We didn’t ‘hashtag’ in public forums, we talked in person about everything we had been up to.

When I started yoga in 1997, yoga postures (asana) was simply something that I‘d ‘been up to’ a class that I ‘did’, while hidden in a village hall on a Tuesday evening which made me feel good . Young Paula would never have dreamt back then that yoga would be a photographed ‘thang’ but here we are, here we have grown.

🐎 🧘🏿‍♂️ 🐎🧘🏾‍♂️🐎🧘🏼‍♂️🐎🧘🏾‍♂️🐎🧘🏿‍♂️🐎🧘🏾‍♂️

May we forge a path of fire and light for growth in ourselves and our community 🤍

May we forge a path of fire and light for growth in ourselves and our community 🤍

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