18/08/2026
CELEBRATION 🙌
My Mum and I chatted this morning - she reminded me that I wasn’t allowed to be born in the morning! The military hospital was running a nuclear fall out exercise on base, RAF Wegberg, so I had to arrive in the early afternoon 🙂
Fast forward fifty fabulous years and here I am, still enjoying a lie in and dreaming of travelling to other places 🇩🇪
Today I am celebrating it all ~ the dreams, ideas, travels, love, friendships, loss, laughter and life and am so grateful to have arrived here!
I’m also celebrating all that is to come too ~ I’m feeling excited for the freedom that fifties offers, the adventures ahead, more unravelling of the self and discovering what this midlife season holds!
And celebrating us all ~ this practice, our yoga space, this beautiful thread that weaves it all together has given me so much insight to who I am, what I wish to be and where I want to go 🥰
I am grateful for it all x
16/08/2026
Waking up I smile….the beginning of a gatha/verse designed to be learned and recited in the mornings 🙂
Try to be optimistic ~ reminding me that, yes, it feels so much better than remaining in a pessimistic state.
These are ones I have ingrained in my memory ~ they help me in daily life, my classes, relationships, well being and much more.
Which one resonates with you?
I wonder when Em Yoga has the next birthday which new lessons I will have taken on!
❤️🙏🏻
05/08/2026
Many years ago I bought a bracelet in Bali whilst on retreat. I had spent a few weeks there and each day filled me with happiness. Whilst wandering around Ubud I bought a silver bracelet with the prayer ‘Lokah Samastah Sukinho Bhavantu’ carefully engraved on it. It was that moment that I began to really understand this prayer and know that, through yoga, mindfulness and sitting practice, I could deepen my kindness and create a level of change in the world.
Kindness towards all beings can be as small as saving a snail on a busy path or as big as saving an elephant from the logging trade. Whatever the action is, it counts!
This month as part of the Em Yoga Birthday Celebrations I am hosting our regular Zoom class as a celebration of this prayer, for being kind to all and to raise money for the brilliant Mandalao Elephant Sanctuary 🐘.
To join simply head to my website, choose your donation amount and sign up! If you can’t make it live then a recording will be sent.
I hope you can make it! 🎈
Photos: MandaLao Elephant Conservation 🙂
03/08/2026
I Wow - thank you so much for your amazing messages, notes and birthday wishes for Em Yoga!
I’m excited to share these wonderful prizes with you as part of the Em Yoga month long celebrations!
To enter:
- tag a friend 💚
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