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Feeling grateful for slow mornings ❤️🌊😴 Waking at 6am for an early morning slow flow yoga practice in the beautiful Luna Wave - Immersive Yoga, followed by a hot chocolate and almond croissant 🥐 at FIKA, allowing me to wake into my day all before 9am. Now ready to snuggle up in the warmth away from the rain, ready to be consumed by all things shoe-related, ready for work.

Living life in peace and balance 🙏🧘🏻‍♀️🥰

Two early morning yoga classes waking up and moving to this view 😍🌊☀️ with the beautiful Luna Wave - Immersive Yoga.

Two classes - two completely different approaches to yoga.

First class was beautiful and soft and grounding, waking up both the body and brain, held by the lovely Jasmine Newsome-Stone • Yoga Facilitator• who knew intuitively what our bodies needed next - I was already one step ahead as my body was calling for these little micro movements and moments. 🙏🧘🏻‍♀️

Second class was the polar opposite - high energy, fast moving jivamukti yoga held by the awesome Maxine Payne whose vibes woke up the entire body as we jumped into handstands within 5 mins of the class starting - totally an explosion of fun and organised chaos all at once! 🙌🏼 💥

So what does this all teach you (other than getting up and outta bed at 6am in the morning to start your day!?) 😂 It teaches us that in a world of busy, we need calm. In a world of slow, we need fast. In a world of work, we need play. In a world of yang, we need yin. If you’re naturally drawn to a slower class, explore a more dynamic class and see how it lands with you. If you’re drawn to high energy classes, then try a slower class. We need both to have balance. Our classes normally reflect who we are and our lifestyles - fast-moving lifestyle, diary, work schedule, social gatherings = yang yoga classes, run clubs, gym, hyrox etc. But why just try flipping the script…!? 🤔

In my thirties I loved fast dynamic yoga classes. My forties I moved towards a slower class. But I love both equally, for very different reasons. And both feel like home 🏠❤️

And can I just say, what a bloody view to practice yoga to….🙌🏼😍☀️❤️🌊

Luna Wave - Immersive Yoga Sea Lanes Brighton

A great beautiful few days passed with great loved ones, old neighbours and wonderful friends and family. Evening sax 🎷 gigs at the beautiful Rockwater Village Hove with basax_music, brilliant lunch out (and ice baths!) with long lost neighbours, a once-in-a-lifetime eclipse ✨☀️, glorious meringue cocktails and dinner at The Salt Room with basax_music Robert Doman followed by naughty cocktails at the magical Medusa bar Medusa Bar Brighton, chai lattes becoming my fastest favourite new drink 😋 ☕️, drinks with Robert Doman and Brian Kichenside, homemade gazpacho soup, glorious Sunday Roast with my soulmate at The Ginger Pig 😍🙌🏼, antique shopping, and a day shopping with my wonderful niece - happy birthday, I love you! ❤️😘🙏

Heart full ❤️

When good life looks like good food! 😋

Obsessing over homemade summer salads 🥗

Coming soon…dates just released! 😜🙏😘

Bringing Eastern teachings of yoga into our modern Western lives.

This is where true power and growth come from yoga. Not just balancing in true pose on your mat - but balancing the battle of the mind. 🧘🏻‍♀️

For example,
- when you’ve just had a bollocking at work, what rabbit hole does your own mind take you down that you’re now feeling useless at your job, questioning your ability, doubting yourself?

- or when you’ve just had an argument with your partner and your now treading on egg shells, where do your own thoughts take you to make you feel like it’s all your fault and you’re not worthy of love.

Our thoughts can be our greatest besties or our most feared enemies….so choose wisely.

Remember, we don’t do yoga to get better at yoga. We do yoga to get better at life. And it starts with the relationship we have with our own thoughts.

Something to think about…❤️

Yoga - the equilibrium balance of work / play, mind / body, strength / stretch, active / passive, all coming together. For me, my favourite is the balance of West / East.

In Sept and Oct we come together for a 4-week Mini-Series to explore this further. Welcome to your NEUROWELLNESS YOGA IMMERSION 🧘🏻‍♀️❤️

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Where the equilibrium balance of work / play, mind / body, strength / stretch, active / passive, all come together. For me, my favourite is the balance of West / East.

Bringing Eastern teachings of yoga into our modern Western lives.

This is where true power and growth come from yoga. Not just balancing in true pose in your mat - but balancing the battle of the mind. 🧘🏻‍♀️

Are you friends with your thoughts, or are you enemies? 🤔

Something to think about…❤️

This is kinda one of my favourite hugs! 🤗 🐾🥐 Hugging this little furball is what I live for! (Those who know, know…) 😜

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Something to think about - but not for too long! 😂🤪

We are all victims of this - holding onto negative thoughts and obsessing over the ‘what ifs’…

One of the strongest lessons I have learned through yoga is that your thoughts are not always true. Just because you might think something, doesn’t mean it’s always true.

Have you ever noticed that during moments of conflict, drama, heated arguments, disagreements etc, that your brain will be thinking one thing (ie, location A) - and then all of a sudden your brain takes you forward 10 steps ahead of time (ie, location J)….but what about all the steps and locations in between? 🤔 Is location J the truth? Or is it just a thought your brain conjured up, making you believe it’s true? 🤔 Maybe, we should stop, pause, and look at the steps and locations along the way…

Or maybe, just maybe - we DON’T give the thought the power it thinks it deserves. 💥

One of the best teachings in yoga within our modern world, is to learn to let go. It’s not always easy - some situations are easier to let go of than others.

But the moment we start to detach from a negative thought, the lighter you feel, and the more power YOU have, not your thought.

👉 Steps to help let go:
🙏 Pause
🙏 Take 3 deep breathes
🙏 Reflect on how you feel now? If you still feel the weight of the thought, close your eyes and take another 3 slooooow deep breaths.
🙏 Feeeel the breath and your body
🙏 Walk away, literally

This has helped me more than you could ever know ❤️

Are you ready to step up…?

Welcome to the SHIFT YOUR SH*T: The 4-Week Yoga Mini-Series

If you’re anything like me, then you’ll be perhaps tired and bored of the usual weekly yoga classes. Yes, they are great - great at giving you a sweat, great at learning new things, great at keeping you consistent. But they are all based around asana. What about everything else? 🤔

Lately I’ve been feeling a real disconnect between the yoga teacher training I studied when I was learning to become a teacher and the regular weekly classes. 😩 Why are all classes designed for the body but that’s like only 20% of the yoga teachings and system. 🤷‍♀️

As I move through this thing we call life I wanna learn more and more about how to deal with things that trip you up - like how to deal with a stressful argument with a loved one, or how to deal with conflict at work, or how to deal with that nagging anxiety feeling in the pit of your stomach. I don’t really care if I can bend over and touch my toes. Does that make a me a bad yogi? 🤔🤷‍♀️😂

So. If this is hitting home, and you’d like regular weekly teachings where we learn the OTHER side of yoga, then step right up! This Mini-Series has been designed for you! ❤️

Call it a class. Call is study. Call it a course. I don’t think it really matters. What matters is that it’s a safe on-going space for 4 weeks where together we will learn the tools needed to help with this thing called life, and then we will shake what our mammas gave us and do some yoga on the mat! 🤸🏻‍♂️🧘🏻‍♀️🙏

The deets:
Dates: 19 Sept / 26 Sept / 3 Oct / 10 Oct
Time: 10-11.30
Price: £95 for the 4-Week Mini-Series
Where: Yellowave, Hove

Spaces limited to 12

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I hope you can join us ❤️

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