Rachael Moore Yoga & Wellbeing

🤍A lovely, kind and wise friend asked me the other day what yoga is, or what it means to me.

The question lingered.

And whilst I could have spoken about strength, flexibility, balance, breath, or finding a little more ease, none of those felt like the whole truth.

When I sat with the question for a while, this is what emerged…

🤍Yoga and I… an unfolding and enduring love story.

It has been the companion that has held me steady and given me wings.🪽

Connecting me to my body, breath, and heart. Offering sweet refuge in difficult seasons and breathing life back into me when I’ve felt depleted.

At times it has been a calming balm. At others, a fortifying and electrifying elixir.💫

Yoga has made me stronger whilst softening my heart, cultivating curiosity, resilience, contentment, and wonder.

For over twenty-seven years, it has quietly accompanied me through every season of life. Yet somehow, I feel as though we are only just becoming acquainted📿

The beauty of yoga is that it is never truly mastered. It continues to reveal itself, layer by layer, breath by breath, meeting us anew each time we step onto the mat.

And if you are new to this journey, if yoga is quietly whispering in your ear or gently knocking at your door, let your curiosity win.

Allow those whispers to be heard.

Let yoga take you by the hand.

Let it move you. Let it introduce you to your breath. Let it open tender conversations with your nervous system and your inner landscape.

I promise it is a friendship—a love affair, even—that you will never regret beginning.

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🧘🏽‍♀️ Sometimes the practices that create the biggest shifts are the ones that look the simplest from the outside.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Over the past couple of years my relationship with breathwork has changed deeply.
For a long time, I was drawn mostly towards grounding, soothing practices — softening an already overstimulated nervous system and creating more space for rest, steadiness and exhale.

🧘🏽‍♀️ But more recently, I’ve also been exploring the value of intentional, energising practices such as Breath of Fire.
Not to push harder… but to gently expand capacity.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Capacity to hold sensation.
Capacity to move energy.
Capacity to meet life with a little more resilience, clarity and steadiness.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Practices like this remind us that nervous system work is not always about calming down. Sometimes it’s about increasing adaptability — learning to move more fluidly between activation and rest without becoming stuck in either.

🧘🏽‍♀️ In this reel I’m practising Breath of Fire with a soft breath retention at the end. A few rounds was enough to shift me from scattered and unfocused into feeling clearer, brighter and more present.

🧘🏽‍♀️ This is something we’ll be gently exploring inside CAPACITY over the coming weeks — not through force or overwhelm, but through small intentional practices that help us build a little more inner resource over time.

✨ Have you explored more stimulating forms of breathwork before? I’d love to know how they feel in your body.

Very excited to be hosting this day retreat with the wonderful Emma Joyful Menopause
Take a look for more info!
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😐Feeling a bit stuck, irritable, or just a bit meh?

☀️This pranayama — Breath of Joy - is just that a j o y & is a simple but powerful way to shift your state.

⚡️The combination of rhythmic breath and movement helps us to energise the body, increase oxygen flow, and gently help reset our nervous system.
I find it particularly helpful when I’m feeling sluggish, tense, or a bit foggy.

☀️And In seasonal terms, whilst spring carries an “up and out” energy — it can also bring frustration and irritability. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is linked to the liver and gallbladder meridians and the wood element.

⚡️I love practices like this- helping to move that energy rather than letting it stagnate, leaving me bright, light and with a smile on my face ☺️

☀️Simple, effective, and honestly… hard to do without shifting something, even slightly.

⚡️Try at least 5 rounds (more if it feels good) and notice what changes.

☀️We’ll be practising this in class all week — let me know how it feels for you.

This is the reset I keep coming back to at the moment…🫶
My go-to when my mind feels busy and my body a little untethered.

🧘🏽‍♀️ We begin by arriving.
Settling. Softening. Noticing.

🧘🏽‍♀️ And through simple, repetitive movements — gentle spinal circles, twists, breath-led kriya — we begin to move what feels stuck. Tension softens. Energy shifts. And that monkey mind begins to quieten

🧘🏽‍♀️ And then… the pause……The magical p a u s e

That delicious moment after movement, where everything subtly ( but potently) rearranges itself.
Where you land into “feeling”.
And the nervous system begins to settle into something steadier, softer, more spacious.

🧘🏽‍♀️ From here an organic lengthening of the exhale — slow, and steady, through the nose — inviting the body toward rest and calm.

🧘🏽‍♀️ And arriving into stillness.
Drawing up Yoni mudra, unfolding to lotus, rising to the third eye… and gently offering back out and down.

🧘🏽‍♀️ As ever, a practice of returning.
Of listening.
And of allowing.

🧘🏽‍♀️ save this my love for when your system needs gentle re-set 🫶💛🫶