Elements Yoga

~Care for Care~
Next Date JUNE 16th✨

This workshop is coming up again in June.
This is about nurturing your capacity to care for yourself and others.

We are ineffective if we don’t take care of ourselves, yet it can often feel so hard to access this ‘self care’ when it’s clouded in self judgement, guilt, default reactivity to be ‘always on’ or doing.

When the world externally feels like you have to rush to keep up, you need to regulate internally and find a felt sense of pace that can sustain responsiveness.

Using Yoga, somatics, and stillness practices, reflection and rest, this will be a 2 hour workshop your body, heart and spirit will thank you for❤️

The best time is always NOW.
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Chatting to a client this week about how we need time to allow our processes.
We are in such a rush these days to have answers, the best advice. We have access to so much information now AND yet our bodies systems work at a different pace.
Of course we need to make decisions and adulting is about action steps, but we also need to time to soothe broken hearts or feel sad. We need time to heal after sickness or simply feel how it is to not be under time pressure.
We need to feel how we can pace ourselves in times of urgency.


I mentioned to a friend recently that I can notice sometimes how I rush my daughter to get her coat on or leave the house and I realized that it doesn’t land well for any of us….so I’m practicing letting her take her sweet time and if all we do is sit on our ‘walks’ that’s ok❤️

Back in October I posted a video about social media and your Nervous System. In the 6 months since, I’m sure in different ways we have all experienced our own collective and individual reactions and responses.

It can be so difficult to hold space internally and externally for the variety of simultaneous feelings, thoughts and energetics you can be going through, and add to that trying to care for others, tend to others, be there for others.

I firmly believe that our practices on our mats can be powerful mechanisms on AND off our mats.

When we are immersed in experiences through our bodies, with others in mindful dialogue, through intentional stillness and shared space, we cultivate our capacity for processing and integrating.

We can’t feel cold water by just thinking about it. We have to get in. When we do it’s a whole lived experience.

We can’t care for ourselves or others by just thinking about it, we have to practice, engage with ourselves and others in ways that feel caring.

My upcoming workshop is focused on how to care for our own nervous system states and others through what we can practice on our mats and time together.
There will be time for talking, time for moving, time for listening and time tor reflect & be still.

We need to tend to and care for our capacity and ability to care.

April 7th
Care for Care
Booking through ❤️

Following our wonderful ‘Yoga na Mbán’ in January, I’m delighted to offer this new Celtic Series, 3 Wednesday evening offerings, March, May & June.

These special women’s gathering are a series of sessions designed to connect your system with the seasons.🍃

We will gather to mark moments in the Celtic calendar and also within your own inner seasonal shifts and cycles.🍃

Each evening will include Yoga and Somatic movements, reflection and nourishing relaxation, suitable for all levels-including pre and post natal.

The invitation is to connect to your natural rhythms and how that manifests in your body, energy and mind. You’re invited to come with this intention and together we can remember and live our nature.🍃

Full details and booking through my page✨

Tomorrow I am giving a talk on the nervous system & Matrescence with ❤️

As I dive into my memories and my material for this talk, I feel so proud for how much I’ve learnt and processed in these early years. I am not sure we declare that enough and acknowledge what a major learning curve it is in the very early days when it all seems like a distant memory.

So all my Mamas pat yourselves on the back AND What is one thing you would have loved to know about your nervous system as you became a Mother? What are you proud of yourself for today? ❤️

Hello❤️

With some new folks joining on here…To celebrate a new year and finally (maybe) not being caught under my daughters or my own bouts of sickness- I’ll introduce myself✨

I’m Naomi, I’ve been teaching Yoga for 13 years with a keen interest in offering practices and holding spaces to aid processing, regulation and rest.

All offerings are anchored in a sense of ritual needed to mark and make moments in your life.

I’ve always been involved in activities, trained and worked as a physical education teacher for a decade. I run, rock climb, love the mountains and Sea. I feel our bodies and experiences in our bodies are the surest way to understanding, navigating and growing in our lives.

Offering this year include;
~Community Classes, Pregnancy Yoga & Mothers’ Circles, D8
~Seasonal Women’s Yoga Gatherings, D8
~ Studio classes
~ An active Online Library to support your home practice
~ Personalized One to One Sessions

It’s lovely to have you here
I appreciate your presence
I endeavor to create content and show up here in ways that feel wholesome, add value for you and where you can learn something helpful🙏❤️

I’ve 2 wonderful opportunities to connect coming up in the New Year at the beautiful Fumbally Stables❤️

✨’Invitation’
Jan 4th 7pm
A special New Years Class to move, reflect and invite your system into the rhythm of New Year that feels right for you.

✨’Yoga na Mbàn’
Jan. 6th 11am
A special gathering of women for Women’s Christmas. Time for movement, reflection and REST.

Either or both could be a lovely gift to yourself or someone you love💫

You can book & find more details through my page, I’d love to see you there💕

‘Release’
End of year online Immersion
3 sessions to help you connect, regulate, process and release your year.
Starting this evening, still time to join❤️
https://elementsyoga.ie/product/release-2022endyearimmersion-online/

~Gifting~
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Whether it’s for Christmas, birthdays or just to show someone how much you care…You can now give the gift of experiences & wellbeing through my website.

In times when we know how much waste can accumulate, when we want to be more sustainable and conscious…gifting someone time for Yoga really is a gift that can be of benefit and supports well being all round❤️

There are options to gift online library membership, open vouchers and to join Yoga Immersions with more coming soon💫

Gift someone time on their mat🎁
https://elementsyoga.ie/gifting/✨

✨Workshop✨
Yoga and Skin Care
NOVEMBER 12th
9.30am-11.30am

Love the skin you are in.

We might not always feel like we have time to book treatments...so this Saturday morning workshop will be an amazing opportunity to learn how to give yourself rejuvenating facial treatments as well as enjoy some Yoga and Relaxation.

This special workshop will include a Yoga practice with moi followed by a skin care workshop with Relaxing Therapies who are experts at what they do, and will give you insights and wisdom to have your skin glowing through Winter.

Over the morning, you will have the invitation to move, relax and feel the importance of caring for yourself, inside and out.❤️

https://elementsyoga.ie/product/yogaskincare/🙏

November✨

Into the dark cycle we go…In every ending there is always space for beginnings..
I used to really struggle with this time of year and now I find I embrace the invitation - maybe age/ maybe wisdom;-)

Starting next week I have a new schedule to bring us through, connecting to your wisdom and relationship with your own cyclical nature.

Mondays Pregnancy Yoga **currently waitlist (dm to express interest in an extra class)
Tuesdays Mindful Flow
Thursdays Community Courses D8
November 12th Yoga & Skincare Morning D12

And ONLINE will be a month of nourishing practices to help you ‘HIBERNATE’ for moments at home, restorative and soothing movement practices with meditation and breath❤️

www.elementsyoga.ie 🙏



📷by my beautiful talented friend Amy

Yesterday was World Mental Health day and probably for the last 6 or so years I’ve posted my reflections or shared some insights.

Yesterday I missed the date, I only realized in the evening and had a moment of ‘I don’t even have time to think about mental health let alone share’!

I feel this can be an indicator of most of our modern lives and ‘usual’ days. Tasks, duties, everyday concerns can supersede what feels like more time consuming processing or pausing to digest…

So…what do we do?
We can realize that’s entirely normal and our efficient brain/mind is working to save us over efforting.
With that we can go easy on ourselves and have compassion for our human-ness.
And then we can step out of perhaps the lean to doing mode or tending to others (be that emails or making dinner) and give ourselves a break, maybe that’s just a deep breath.

And this pausing might just free up a little more space inside to open up to what’s going on for you…

here are some simple self reflection questions ‘how am I doing?’ ‘How am I feeling?’ ‘What do I need right now?’

If your body was sending you signals that you are hungry you’d know all about it, and maybe over time our practices can be listening to and tending to all of the other signals and feelings that might be arising.

Sending you warmth and kindness,
Naomi❤️



📷from the lovely Hannah