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Rooted Sangha - Session 13 - Saucha
Saucha is often translated as purity or cleanliness, but as Deborah Adele reminds us in The Yamas and Niyamas, this isn’t about striving for perfection or rigid order. It’s about cultivating the kind of inner and outer environment that allows energy, breath, and inspiration to move freely through us.
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Nov 132 min read


The Living Web: How Fascia Shapes Our Posture, Mind, and Mood
Fascia is the silken, fibrous tissue that wraps through and around everything — muscles, bones, organs, even nerves. It’s what gives us our shape and our sense of cohesion. And because fascia is living tissue, it adapts to what we do most often.
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Nov 34 min read


Rooted Sangha - Session 12 Aparigraha
As autumn deepens and the veil between worlds thins, the energy of Samhain drifts through the air — quiet, reflective, and edged with mystery. The harvest has been gathered; the fields lie bare. Nature herself exhales, releasing what has completed its cycle. The trees surrender their leaves without resistance, trusting that this falling away is part of a larger rhythm.
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Oct 293 min read


It’s the Most Wonderful Time… and Also a Bit Much
How are you with the festive period? Honestly, I find it difficult. The pressure, the busyness, the sheer over-stimulation of it all. That tug-of-war between “have I bought enough?” and “why on earth are we buying all this stuff anyway?” The internal battle between “it’s the most wonderful time of the year” and “it’s all absolute bollocks.” (Pardon the language). The wreath-making I love, and the Christmas decorations that don't look quite right...But who can recover from
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Oct 262 min read


Beginner's Yoga Course January 2026
Yoga isn’t about touching your toes; it’s about learning to listen — to your body, your breath, and the quiet voice within. My 6-week Introduction to Yoga for Beginners course, starting January 2026, offers a gentle way to begin. You’ll explore foundational postures, breathing practices, and mindfulness in a calm, welcoming space that nurtures every layer of your being. Come as you are — I’ll meet you there.
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Oct 234 min read


Rooted Sangha – Session Eleven Brahmacharya
Theme: Brahmacharya: Walking in Sacred Balance There’s a beautiful stillness hidden in the word Brahmacharya . It’s often translated as *celibacy*, but that narrow definition misses its heart. In its truest sense, Brahmacharya invites us to walk through the world in sacred balance — to honour our energy, our attention, and our desire as something precious, not to be spilt carelessly into every passing distraction. In Sanskrit, Brahma means “the divine,” and *charya* means “t
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Oct 223 min read


Why I Chose Laurel Park: A Place of Transformative Rest
Laurel Park has been a part of my life since 2019 — a place I return to whenever I need space to breathe, reconnect, and remember what really matters. It’s peaceful, grounding, and quietly transformative. In this post, I’m sharing why this beautiful corner of Lincolnshire means so much to me, and why it felt like the only place that could hold my first weekend retreat: Transformational Rest.
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Oct 213 min read


The Alchemy of Menopause
For too long, menopause has been cast in the language of loss — a quiet decline, a soft unravelling into invisibility. But endings are never simply endings. They are compost, dark soil for something new to take root. What if menopause were not a diminishment, but an initiation? Not a failure of the body, but its deep wisdom at work — a fire that burns away the false so that we can meet what is true. Writers and teachers like Red School, Sharon Blackie, and Katherine May have
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Oct 165 min read


Rooted Sangha – Session Ten Asteya
In yoga philosophy, there’s a quietly powerful teaching that names four stages of being: Bogi, Rogi, Yogi, and Tyagi. It’s not so much a ladder to climb as it is a mirror — an invitation to notice how we’re living and where our energy is flowing.
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Oct 154 min read


Gentle Breathwork for Menopause and Beyond
There are seasons when life feels tender at the edges — when everything within us is shifting, asking to be met in a new way. For many...
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Oct 151 min read


Rooted Sangha – Session Nine Satya
What lies beneath the stories we tell ourselves? This week, we explore the art of being honest with ourselves — through yoga philosophy, core values, and the still lake of truth.
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Oct 83 min read


Rooted Sangha – Session Eight Summary
Theme: Satya - Self Expression and Being True To Ourselves This week, we continued our exploration of Satya – truthfulness – and, in...
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Oct 23 min read


Settle Into Your Centre: Working with the Hara Point to Ease Anxiety
When life feels unsettled, we often find ourselves pulled upwards — into the busyness of the mind, the racing of the heart, the shallows of the breath.
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Sep 262 min read


Rooted Sangha – Session Seven Summary
Theme: Satya - Truthfulness and the difference between 'nice' and 'real'. In yoga, Satya is often translated simply as “truthfulness.”...
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Sep 244 min read


Soul Journey Autumn Check-In
Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well as we transition from late summer to early Autumn. This week, we will find ourselves at Mabon....
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Sep 203 min read


Rooted Sangha – Session Six Summary
Theme: Worrying is a form of violence - discuss! I have been looking forward to discussing this part of the book, because it is a little...
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Sep 103 min read


Rooted Sangha – Session Five Summary
This evening, our circle began by checking in with how we were each arriving. The unsettled weather — and the pull of the approaching September full moon — seemed to be stirring something in many of us.
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Sep 42 min read


Rosehip Syrup: Autumn’s Gift in a Bottle
There’s a quiet joy in stepping out into the garden on a sunny autumn morning, noticing how the year has begun to turn. The roses that...
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Sep 22 min read


Introducing A Year of Soulful Day Retreats
My 2025 day retreats sold out within days, and after the first one unfolded with such joy and depth, I knew I wanted to return to The...
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Aug 312 min read


Rooted Sangha – Session Four Summary
Theme: Moving from fear towards balance After quite a 'heavy' session the week before, I offered a grounding 'safe space' meditation to...
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Aug 292 min read
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