Barefoot Yoga Caversham

The beautiful balance of life 💫 and the beautiful practice of yoga 🙏🏼

The gift of shifting from a walking head to an embodied being 💝

This was shared in a class I went to this week and it rang so true. How often do we spend all of our waking hours thinking, planning and doing when all we really have to do is BE. Reconnect to that beautiful breath of yours, feel your feet or seat on the ground, close your eyes and be still 🌸

Hey September, you came round quickly !
I hope everyone has had a beautiful carefree summer.
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It's been a while since I saw you yogis so I can't wait to be back on the mat.
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Classes start tomorrow and continue every WEDNESDAY 6.20pm at St Andrew's Hall, Caversham.
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Class is suitable for all xx
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Can't wait to see you and welcome everybody back on the mat 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘‍♂️🧘

Just parking this here to keep those carefree summer holiday vibes alive 💫

Moving gently into September and looking forward to all the good things coming.

Back on the mat next week ✌🤍 See you there I hope xx

Bella italia 💚🤍❤

Home for the next few days 💛

My 'nature allies' 🪶🍂 from a beautiful morning spent forest bathing, barefoot walking and lying under the tree canopies in the glorious woods 💚

Sunnies, sky, sunshine & salad 💫 Yea please. And thanks 🙏🏼

Happy Friday!

Life doesn't really get much better 💫

A summer's evening, yoga, nature, bare feet, beautiful yogis, a stunning moon, fairy lights and Rosé 💛

Another magical evening. Thank you to the team at for always making us so welcome and to everyone who came along. More next week 🙏🏼🧘🏻‍♀️🤸‍♀️

Hello, I have 3 tickets left for this Thursday's rescheduled Outdoor Yoga & Supper at the magical Blue Tin in Ipsden.
The weather looks warm and dry, the rose is chilling and we'd love to see you! DM me to book your space x

Yoga on the beach ⛱ always a good idea 🌞 thank you blue skies 💙

💫 Blue Tin Yoga 💫

Unfortunately, we've decided to postpone tomorrow's outdoor yoga & supper due to the not-great forecast. But happily, it is going ahead next Thursday 7th July instead and a few spaces have opened up.

Get in touch if you'd like to join us! 🌞

Happy new day. Happy new week. What are you calling into your life this week?
Joy?
Stillness?
Courage?
Peace?
Happiness?
Fun?
Stay open, set your intention and allow it all in 💝

See you on the mat to aid that flow 🙏🏼
💫 Wednesday Evening Flow 6.20pm @ St Andrews Hall, Caversham

💫 Thursday Outdoor Summer Yoga & supper @ Blue Tin Ipsden

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🌞 Holiday vibes
🌞 Happy moments
🌞 Topped up on the good stuff

And I didn't even have to leave 💝

Ah, my lovely Wednesday night yoga crew 💙 It was a hot one last night but after the movement comes the stillness. Bliss state 💫💫💫

Thanks for showing up, always a pleasure to see your faces and a highlight of my week guiding you through the practice. 🙏🏼

Join me on Saturday, 2.30-4.30pm Hemdean House School for a big dose of yoga magic ✨ 🧘‍♀️💞

Enjoy the sunshine ###

Yogis, it's time to yoga outside! 🙌

Summer has finally landed just in time for my first outdoor summer yoga this Thursday. We still have a few places left for the 2 June dates (16th & 30th). Get in there quick and grab the last spots! July dates are sold out. Can't wait to roll out my mat on the grass in this beautiful spot for the 4th year. ❤🌈❤

And if you are free on Saturday afternoon, join me for a blissful 2 hour practice ~ Summer Flow & Restore Yoga ~ Hemdean House Caversham. 🧘‍♀️🙏🏼🌻

Enjoy the sunshine and the beautoful outdoors ### 🌞 💝😎

Regular Wednesday Evening Flow is also on this week. All the yoga for you 🤗🤗🤗

Classes are back on this week after a half-term break 🙌

Come and move out of your head into your body 💫

Guaranteed to leave you shining brighter ✨ 😊

St Andrews Hall, Caversham 🙏🏼 Wednesdays 6.20pm ###

It's June. It's summer. And Outdoor Summer Yoga at is back for the 4th year 🙌 I cannot wait! 🧘‍♀️🌻🌿

Tickets are selling fast and of course they are. Outdoor yoga in the veg garden surrounded by beautiful birdsong and nature 🦋 followed by supper and a glass of rose / soft drink hosted by the lovely Emma at Blue Tin. What's not to love ❤

Come and join us... June 16th & 30th, July 14th & 28th.

I love these evenings so much and can't wait to share them with you again. Book on via my website ###

💝 F L O W & R E S T O R E 💝

Saturday 18th June 2.30-4.30pm @ Hemdean House, Caversham

Take some time out and treat yourself to an afternoon of Hatha Flow yoga followed by a blissful Restorative yoga and guided relaxation to bring balance and harmony to body and mind.

Pls book via website x

Good luck to all the students starting exams today 🤞🍀

For us, with a reluctant, easy-breezy, unfussed, not-a-fan-of-school teenager about to take on 22 gcses, it's going to be a long 6 weeks...

But exams aren't everything and don't suit every child. They are just a tiny chapter in life. It's just about showing up, not comparing yourself, doing your best and knowing that's all you can do. Mantra for life. 🙏

Sending loads of love to all parents, carers and guardians as we support our kids on this journey xx

Well that was a nice Friday surprise! Over the moon to have been nominated for the Berkshire Muddy Stilettos Best Yoga/Pilates studio. 🌟

I am a one-woman band, sharing what I love and what inspires me and hoping to make yoga accessible for all regardless of age, body or background.

If you'd like to vote for me to get through to the shortlist please use the link below...

https://berkshire.muddystilettos.co.uk/nominate/

Thank you SO much x ❤

My new pad 😍 😅

Such a good time at on Saturday. Still a pony mad girl at heart ❤ missed you ###

Hey May 👋
How gorgeous is all this nature around us?

After a quiet, inwards April, stepping off the merry-go-round, I'm feeling ready to grow and flow into the summer. 🤸‍♀️💫🤸‍♀️

With so much of life focused on the doing and achieving and striving, honestly it was a relief to just pause and be. Do you give yourself that time? Can you recognise when you need to put yourself first? And then can you prioritise that?

Top 3 take aways....

🧡 Family & friends - the meaning of life.
🧡 It's true you can't pour from an empty cup.
🧡 Things don't fall apart if you say no, if you go a bit slower, if you lean in to what you're feeling.

I'd love to know how you put yourself first 🙌 Please share! Big love to you all 🧘‍♀️🧡🙏

Hola 👋 How are you all? I'm back from a lovely beach break and some much-needed time out and I can't wait to get back on the mat this week with my lovely Wednesday eve yogis. ❤

Join me! 🤗

⚡ Wednesday 6.20-7.20pm
⚡St Andrews Church Hall, Caversham⚡

💥 P L U S 💥

⚡Flow & Restore Yoga Afternoon ⚡
18th June @ Hemdean House ⚡
A beautiful mix of Hatha Flow and Restorative Yoga plus Yoga Nidra. The complete package. 🎁

Book on via my website ###

🌞 Magic Mallorca 🌞

🌞 Happy Easter 🌞
Wishing you fun, rest & play 💛

Saturday sunshine 🌞 😎 Heaven on a plate x

It doesn't have to be All Go ⚡ - it can be Go Slow 🐌 That's definitely my choice this weekend 💯🙋🏻‍♀️

Thanks to all the lovely yogis who came to class tonight. I loved seeing you! 🙏🙏🙏

Dedicating our practice to someone or something else. Something bigger than ourselves. A person, a cause, a country. All that beautiful collective energy, love and attention in the room is out there doing its magic. 💫

We are all one.
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Happy weekend. 🌻 Turn off the news (it doesn't mean you don't care) and be present with the people you love and care about. Including yourself 💝

Calling all WARRIORS! 🤗 Wednesday night yoga restarts tomorrow 🙏 Drop in or block book for your mid-week reset. 🤍

Yes to finding our inner power, standing our ground and cultivating presence.

Being here, right in this moment, in this body.
Breathing into the experience.
Shining from within.
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Heading back to run my next weekend retreat here in 2 weeks and I can't wait 🤸‍♀️💛

This one has been sold out for a while but I have a new Autumn date in the diary which I'll be releasing soon. 🙌

Get in touch if you'd like to join me for a weekend of yoga, relaxation, delicious food, rest, good company, nature, pressing pause and getting away from it all!

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Blustery Bournemouth and beautiful beach huts 😍 Blowing all the cobwebs away 🌬

And the dog 🤭 she always turned her face to the wind 🤷🏻‍♀️😄 Sweet heart ❤

Take a pause. Take a breath. Notice all the beautiful things inside you and outside you. 💫🤍💫

I can't wait to see my Wednesday night yogis later. All beautiful inside and out.
We come together.
Show up as we are.
Listen.
Tune inwards and leave feeling lighter and brighter ✨ 💛 🙏

Everyone always welcome. x

Happy 1st of the month 😘 And welcome February❣ A clean sheet and a fresh start.

Every 1st of the month since September, I have written a few goals/desires/aims/intentions for the coming weeks on a humble Post-It and stuck it on my desk. Nothing super stressful. Just focus and sweet intentions for the month. Could be work-related, wellbeing-related, fun-related or task-related.

And guess what? Every single thing I've written on my monthly Post-It since then I have achieved or it has happened.

The power of intention setting and focusing on what you want is so powerful. I'm only just discovering and it blows my mind just a bit!

Sending loads of love your way for a happy, contented focused-on-all-the-good-stuff month 💝 and if you haven't tried it yet, embrace the Power of the Post-It!

Beautiful winter morning 🌄 💙🤍 topped off with dog walk & coffee 🐶

All the good stuff 💫

Happy weekend ✌ into February we go 🤸‍♀️🤗

Reading stack 📚

Birthday books from friends and myself 💫 January happiness. 🧡

What are you delving into at the moment?

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⚡Cow Face Pose
⚡Gomukhasana
⚡ Just arms here but heading for the full expression of the pose in class this week and getting right into the hips as well as the shoulders. Yummy! 🧡

A beautiful pose to explore the balance of effort (Sthira) and ease (Sukhan) 💫 Not forcing but allowing it to be as it is. Just as it is.

Hands up who enjoys this pose? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Thank you to everyone who has booked on to this beautiful workshop on Saturday making it a SELL OUT!🙏 ✨❤

More yoga specials coming up this year - let me know what you fancy and I'll add it to the plans for 2022! ###

This is January 2022. 🌟 What's working for me now...

⚡Living in my new fleece trackies. ⚡Being outdoors as much as possible. In short bursts.
⚡Taking full advantage of any sunlight.
⚡Keeping a smile on my face,
⚡Getting my steps in.
⚡Drying out (from wine and constant rain).
⚡Skincare.
⚡Early nights.
⚡Telling people I'm thinking of them when I'm thinking of them.
⚡Being kind. To myself.
⚡And others.
⚡Not looking at my phone first thing in the morning.
⚡Herbal teas.
⚡Cinnamon buns from .caversham.
⚡Netflix. Alot.
⚡Scheming and dreaming.

And YOGA 🧘‍♀️ all the way, of course 💫

What's working for you? x

Pic from a New Year treat among the giant redwood trees . 🌳 🌲 putting everything in perspective x

So happy to back sharing what I love and teaching my lovely Wednesday night yogis 💫

Thanks for showing up and pressing pause on your week to regroup with me 🙏🧘🏻‍♀️💕

Class runs every Wednesday 6.20pm at St Andrew's Hall Caversham. Drop ins & block booking available.

Everybody is always welcome 💖

Love & Light all the way 💜
Happy New Year ✨🙏

Keep that beautiful heart of yours open wild thing ❤

And enjoy the Betwistmas lull! Things will speed up again for sure.

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Come one, come all, and join me for my last class of 2021! A festive feast for mind, body and soul. Wednesday, 6.20-7.20pm at St Andrew's Hall, Caversham 🙏

Huge heartfelt thanks to every yogi who has joined me this year on Zoom, in person, on retreat and for weekly classes and one-off specials. It's been such a treat to share my love of yoga with you all.

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I am so looking forward my annual Festive Candlelit Yoga tomorrow 🧘🏻‍♀️🌟

A chance to press pause, move, breathe and rest. A blissful 75 minutes reset 🧡

It's a sell out but I'd love to offer another Winter Candlelit Yoga if there's enough interest! Comment below if you fancy more 👇

🌟 The gift of Yoga 🌟

The best gift in my opinion 🙏

I have had a few lovely people enquire about gifting yoga to their partners and friends these last few weeks.

And I can definitely help with that🧘🏻‍♀️ Private sessions, a block of classes, a yoga Winter Wellness afternoon or a day retreat pass for my upcoming March retreat. All can be accommodated!

Get in touch to arrange a bespoke gift of your choice or pop it on your wish list 😘 ###

If the Christmas crazies have got you, if the constantly shifting Covid sands are making your head spin, or if you could just do with upping your self-care and topping up your good vibes, join me on the mat for a mood-boosting feel-good flow.

💫 Weds eves 6.20-7.20pm at St Andrews Hall, Caversham 💫

There are 2 Wednesday evening sessions left for 2021. Drop in and take care of yourself in the run up to Christmas. 💜

My Festive Candlelit Yoga next Monday sold out so quickly I didn't get a chance to pop it on here, but give me a shout if you want to be added to the wait list! x

Pause, take a breath, and go easy on yourself 💕🧘🏻‍♀️🙏

I get to... 💖

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I shared this beautiful poem by Danna Faulds at the end of our Yin/Yang retreat practice this evening. 💫
Says it all. 🧘‍♀️
Yoga allows us to soothe, heal and gracefully navigate the ups and downs of life 🙏 x Lovely to share this with a gorgeous group of yogis midway through our weekend retreat 🧡

Mmmmm 😋

Here is a recipe for an easy high protein Grain free granola - it so worth trying
Most people think granola takes ages to make. This recipe is quick, easy and will last for months in an airtight jar and well worth having a punt at. It is also grain and gluten free.

Makes approx 300g
Servings: 6

40g almonds
40g walnuts
40g desiccated coconut
30g sunflower seeds
80g pumpkin seeds
1 tablespoon chia seeds
pinch of salt
pinch of cinnamon
2 tablespoons coconut oil (35g)
35ml maple syrup
½ teaspoon vanilla essence

Instructions:
Add the mixed nuts, desiccated coconut, sunflower, pumpkin and chia seeds to the food processor and pulse until all ingredients are roughly chopped but still have some texture remaining.
Put a large wide-bottomed pan on a high heat and add the coconut oil and maple syrup, and heat until coconut oil is melted. Stir occasionally so that it doesn't burn.
Add the nut and seed mixture, as well as the vanilla extract, the salt and cinnamon to the pan and mix thoroughly with the oil and maple mixture. Cook for approximately 3 minutes, or until the nut mixture starts to colour and brown, ensuring to stir continuously.
Remove from the heat and leave to cool. When serving, add any of the ideas below to give it that edge and take it to the next level!
Pimp with: cacao nibs and raisins
Serve with: dairy-free milk or coconut yogurt, or it goes great as a topping on top of porridge.