PŪRṆA - Yoga · Ayurveda · Somatics

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Officially qualified Abhyanga Therapist with V i t a l V e d a | Sole & Dylan school
{apparently the first one in the UK 🤩}

It has been such an honour to hold space for this beautiful treatment over the past few months, and I’m so looking forward to continuing to share it.

“I did not know precisely what to expect, but it was a massage with real purpose and detail. I felt very relaxed afterwards and slept very soundly that night! My hair feels so soft.
Ivana, I think, exudes goodness, peace and calm. She is so beneficial for the mind, body and soul!”
~ Sue, Abhyanga client

Braiding Sweetgrass 🌾

My new favourite summer read 📖

A beautiful reminder of reciprocity ~ of gratitude for what has been given to us, and of our sacred responsibility to care for the land that cares for us.

Perhaps the Earth doesn’t need saving as much as our relationship with her needs restoring.

“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world.”

And this question has stayed with me:
What would it be like to live with that heightened sensitivity to the lives given for ours? To follow back the thread of life in everything, and pay it respect.
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THE THRESHOLD ✨

The Threshold is where everything I have been learning, practising and living over the past decade is coming into one coherent whole

Perhaps this is my way of giving back what has been so generously given to me…

The Threshold is an intimate container in which we step into the questions, show up in our own unfolding, tend to our own awareness and our relationships with others, and return to our inherent belonging

A year-long gathering for women who feel called to make space for that exploration.

I am happy to say that the group is already taking shape 🫶🏽

I will be sharing more about The Threshold over the coming weeks and months.

For those who are curious, you will find the full details on my website

And as always ~ do get in touch with questions

Ivana x

https://www.yogawithivana.co.uk/private-tuition/threshold

I have been meaning to talk more about Abhyanga for a while now 💛

I have been so grateful to be busy with treatments, but it’s time to properly introduce this beautiful Ayurvedic therapy/ practice

One of the reasons I love both receiving and offering Abhyanga is because I experience its benefits so deeply in my own life. In a world that often leaves us feeling rushed and overstimulated, this practice offers something beautifully simple: warmth, slowness, nourishment, and the experience of receiving care through presence & touch

My hope is that it doesn’t stop with the treatment itself, but inspires a gentler way of caring for ourselves and finding moments to slow down in everyday life

🌻 July and August are now fully booked.
My September calendar will open towards the end of August. If you’d like to be the first to know when appointments become available, just send me a message and I will add you to the list

🌿 I am offering 20% off your first Abhyanga treatment as an invitation to discover this beautiful Ayurvedic Oil Massage

Full details on my website,
www.yogawithivana.co.uk ✨

As the heat rises, this brain of mine needs a little less stimulus…

So my annual break from social media is officially on 👋

If you’d like to reach me, all communication is via email only

📧 [email protected]

See you soon 😘🌺

“There is a faith in loving fiercely
the one who is rightfully yours…”
~ David Whyte

From blurry nights in Dublin and questionable dance moves to the many versions of us that make us who we are today ~ together.

Happy first wedding anniversary 💓

An opportunity to share some captured moments from our honeymoon.

And, very timely, the last picture just popped up as a memory from 16 years ago 😂

Today we celebrate us X

✨BODY OF RESONANCE ✨

This is for all of you, but especially my fellow lovers of sound, mantra, and Kirtan ~ I am after you!!!

An invitation to experience the body as a living field of vibration, resonance, and awareness.

Together we’ll explore the subtle meeting place of movement, breath, mantra, and deep listening ~ where vibration is felt in the body, and movement, sound, and awareness are recognised as expressions of the same living continuum.

🗓️ Date for your calendar:

Friday, 11th September, 6.30-8.30 PM
Happy Om Studio

Full details in the link in my bio ✨

Little from last night’s Kirtan…

There’s something so special about singing together where it stops being just “us,” but that “me” doesn’t disappear either ~ more like sitting in a shared field, a mutual awareness, a really unique attunement between everyone there.

The resonance of the last three “oms,” especially—that was it. DID YOU FEEL THAT? I hope the feeling was mutual.

📖 Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd
“The whole is both One and Many—it is a dynamic realm of interplay in which everything dances with everything. To open your eyes to that dance is to see that it is moved by a love of being that yearns to be felt and known through each of us. Every being—every unique locus of awareness and memory and sensitivity—serves that uniquely by being uniquely attuned. The more deeply you come into a felt relationship with the mindful world around you, the more clearly it discovers itself through your eyes. And that reminds us that the etymological root from which our word ‘consciousness’ derives is the Latin verb conscire, which means ‘to be mutually aware.’”

Grateful for these deeply felt, shared experiences when we gather.
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Next Kirtan & Social:
22nd May, 6:30–8 PM