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From Hustle to Harmony: The Benefits of Evening Movement for Busy Lives

Have you ever considered whether morning or evening is better for yoga? While morning routines can positively influence your day, evening rituals are equally important. Modern life can be chaotic, so incorporating movement in the evening creates a necessary pause to unwind. Practices like breathwork and mindfulness build awareness and emotional resilience, and promote neuroplasticity, improving brain function. This blog explores the benefits of evening movement for overall well-being.

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From Chaos to Calm: The Benefits of Yoga in Your Morning Routine.

In this blog we delve into the transformative benefits of morning routines, through the lens of yoga and mindfulness. In today’s fast-paced world, establishing a mindful practice can significantly enhance your well-being, alleviate anxiety, and boost your overall energy. I share why incorporating yoga into your morning routine can enhance your day and invite you to explore the insights and strategies that empower you to cultivate balance and resilience in your daily life.

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The Afterglow Effect: Cultivating Lasting Yoga Habits.

Forming a habit can feel daunting, yet slipping out of one is often all too easy. The key to habit formation lies in commitment, planning, and motivation. It all starts with intention—digging deep to understand why you’re pursuing this habit in the first place. This intention is paired with the afterglow, that rewarding feeling you experience after your practice. This blog explores the benefits of yoga and how to cultivate lasting mindful habits.

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Beneath The Yoga Mat: The Hormones of Yoga Explained.

We’ve always known exercise is good for us. Back in the day, it was all about nutrition and aesthetics, nowadays the truth goes a little deeper. Yoga positively influences your body by releasing feel-good hormones like dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins whilst decreasing cortisol levels. This blog explores the science behind the ancient practice of yoga.

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My Messy Mental Health

Being a wellness practitioner with an abundance of knowledge and tools at my fingertips doesn’t mean I don’t struggle with my mental health. This blog explores the importance of self-care when faced with life's struggles, and I share the things that have supported me the most.

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Finding balance in a busy modern world

September is the month we welcome the Autumn Equinox, marking the transition from Summer to Autumn. It's a time for introspection and reflection, allowing us to look back on the past months and dream of how we want to move through the rest of the year. Embracing this shift is more than just a symbolic gesture; it's an opportunity to prioritise self-care and explore practices that nurture our well-being and personal development.

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Simple Solutions to Relieve Stress and Soothe Your Nervous System

Most of us don’t feel we have much control over the time we have, and what we do have never seems to be enough. Rest and self-care are essential, they need to be consistent and grounding, like an anchor, but the practices we choose get to be personal and seasonal.

When you take care of yourself physically, mentally and emotionally, life feels better. You feel healthier, you sleep better and you have better relationships with the people around you. This blog explores five simple principles for cultivating a daily practice of self-care to support your nervous system and relieve symptoms of stress.

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Welcoming A New Phase

The New Moon is a time for reflection and interception, an invitation to step back and pause. It's an opportunity to realign with our values and ponder our purpose as we sow new seeds of intention about how we choose to move forward. It is also a beautiful reminder to honour the ebb and flow of life and our inner seasons.

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Igniting Inner Healing & Self-Transformation

Explores mindful ways to harness the power of Summer Solstice and inspire positive change in your life. Summer Solstice is a moment of transition and an opportunity to reset. It could be an opportunity to find inspiration and consider doing things differently.

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How to be an Advocate for Your Mental Health Through Body-Mind Awareness

Mental health is a continuum like the four seasons. We can experience all seasons in one day. Often woven throughout a stormy week or reflected by our inner seasons across the month. They can shape our year naturally and sporadically, personally and externally. Finding compassion for yourself and acknowledging your life experiences is how you learn to embrace your wobbles, becoming an advocate for yourself and your emotional well-being.

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Self-awareness is the foundation of your health and well-being.

In our modern world, finding a reason to doubt yourself and feel like you’re not good enough is almost too easy. Comparison, self-doubt, anxiety, stress… they aren’t issues of the mind but of the whole body. Sometimes you need to step back, drop from your head into your body, and hit the reset button. Here’s how self-awareness develops emotional resilience and helps us to embrace change.

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The Beauty of Simple Self Care

The beauty of simple self-care lies in its accessibility. Learn to embrace imperfection, tune into your needs, and nurture yourself with kindness through easy, practical acts of self-love.

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The Power of Your Breath

When your thoughts start to race your well-being shifts, and the scales tip towards fight-flight (your activation, high-alert mode) and it can feel like brain gremlins that have taken up residence in your head! Learn how intentional breathing can be your powerful ally, reducing stress while empowering you to flow through life's challenges with unwavering presence and poise. Inhale confidence, exhale chaos - this mindful practice will revolutionize your ability to stay centered amidst any storm.

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Easing the Mind, Healing the Body.

Explores 9 powerful techniques for managing stress stress and easing anxiety through building mind-body awareness. Through practices ranging from conscious breathing and mindful movement to sensory grounding, these practices will help you tap into your innate capacity for resilience and inner calm

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Radical Rest: Normalising rest as a productive part of being

In this blog I explore the concept of "Radical Rest" – a conscious approach to self-care that prioritises consistent practices of physical, mental, emotional, sensory, social, creative, and spiritual rest. Move beyond superficial trends and curated illusions to cultivate true well-being in a hectic modern world.

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Reconnecting with Your Body Through Mindfulness and Somatic Movement

Feeling disconnected from yourself? Reconnect with your body through the potent mindbody practices of mindfulness and somatic movement. This transformative guide, filled with expert techniques, shows you how to reduce stress, release stuck emotions, and reignite your innate vitality by tuning into the profound wisdom of your physical form. Reunite your mind, body, and soul

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Learning How to Rest

In our relentless hustle culture, true rest is often overlooked as a luxury. However, learning how to properly rest is crucial for avoiding burnout and sustaining our well-being amidst life's demands. This blog post explores the seven essential types of rest - physical, mental, social, creative, emotional, sensory, and spiritual - that we all need to regularly incorporate.

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Sussing out your unique stress signals

Finding calm amid the chaos of modern life is more important than ever when life gets stressful. Recognising the subtle signals from your body when life starts weighing you down will conserve precious energy down the road. Exploring, getting curious, and learning the tools that support you will sustain your health and well-being. Appreciating the weight of your to-do list will help you find the contrasting activities to counterbalance it all. Changing anything starts with an awareness that something is out of sorts.

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How to turn a habit into a lifestyle and help to reduce your cortisol levels

Knowing something is good for you is not always enough to form a habit. However, through experience and exploration, you can get a deeper understanding of the physiological and emotional benefits and begin to integrate that knowledge into your body. 

Stress is a natural state we are designed to move through although our capacity to ride the waves of life can fluctuate. With modern life a mishmash of emotions and distractions it’s easy to detach from how we are feeling. Learning how to lower your cortisol levels and improve your mood is how you can turn a healthy habit into a mindful lifestyle.

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