West Coast OM

A wee post-practice reflection from Sunday 💚

I really enjoyed being back teaching Yoga for Everyone at the Howard Centre in Kilmarnock at the weekend✨

This late summer practice started quietly with finding our baseline, arriving in the body and breath, with seated movement and Rudra Mudra, before gradually coming onto our feet, warming and mobilising the whole body then moving into Surya Namaskara — Salutation to the Sun. ☀️

Afterwards, a couple of lovely people from class pointed me in the direction of the Coffee Kart. As well as being a bit of a yoga nerd, I'm also a bit of a coffee nerd ☕ and I'm pleased to report the coffee was very good. 😊

We also got chatting about a longer Yoga for Everyone workshop / mini-retreat day I'm beginning to imagine for mid October. A wee seed being planted… more on that when it's ready. 🌱

And then, rather than rushing home, I spent a few hours by the sea, looking across towards Arran.

Practice doesn't always end when the mat is rolled up.

Namaste 🙏🏽💚

Yoga for Everyone * this Sunday 🌿

You're warmly invited to join me for this week's donation-based Yoga for Everyone class.

As we move through late summer, we'll explore what I'm calling Baseline Yoga — returning to some of the foundations of practice: breath, movement, awareness and our relationship with the ground beneath us.

A chance to move, stretch, breathe and maybe find a bit more space within ourselves.

No need to perform or achieve anything. Just come as you are and practise from where you are.

Sunday 23 August
The Howard Centre, Kilmarnock
Donation based.

Mats available, and all are welcome.
🙏🏽
Yoga for Everyone | West Coast OM

Sunday mornings at the Howard Centre ☀️

A week on, I'm still reflecting on our gentle post-solstice Yoga for Everyone practice.We explored breath, slow movement, Rudra Mudra, simple Sun Salutations and the reminder that the body often responds best to patience rather than pressure.

Midsummer isn't only about brightness. It's also an invitation to pause, listen and reconnect with what quietly sustains us. I'm increasingly interested in practices that help us build a life organised around nourishment rather than survival..

Grateful to everyone who shared the morning and to the Ulrike and the growing Yoga for Everyone community.

Shinade / West Coast OM 🌊

Still moving through the energy of midsummer and the days of longest light ☀️

This Sunday I’ll be teaching the weekly Yoga for Everyone community class at the Howard Centre in Kilmarnock.

I’ll be bringing a gentle practice focused on breath, grounding and reconnecting with what yoga traditions call our Inner Sun — the Solar Plexus centre associated with vitality, confidence, digestion and inner steadiness.

More and more I believe that life works best when it is structured around nourishment rather than survival.

This Sunday we practice exactly that.

Sunday 28 June
9:45 – 10:45am
Howard Centre, Kilmarnock

Donation-based community class

If you’d like to join, booking details below ⬇️
https://thewellnesshut.as.me
Or DM

Mats provided, just bring You

☀️
Shinade

Still reflecting on Sunday’s Yoga for Everyone class in Kilmarnock.

Gentle movement. Breath.
Community. Real people arriving exactly as they are.

For me, yoga was never only about poses. It became a way of returning to baseline — physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually — especially through life’s more complex seasons.

The weather changes. The nervous system changes. Life changes.
We breathe, move, adapt, continue.

Thank you to everyone walking alongside this evolving journey with West Coast OM. 🌿

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I place on the altar of dawn:
The quiet loyalty of breath,
The tent of thought where I shelter,
Waves of desire I am shore to
And all beauty drawn to the eye.

May my mind come alive today
To the invisible geography
That invites me to new frontiers,
To break the dead shell of yesterdays,
To risk being disturbed and changed.

May I have the courage today
To live the life that I would love,
To postpone my dream no longer
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from 'A Morning Offering' found in his books,
To Bless the Space Between Us (US) / Benedictus (Europe)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

The Howard Centre, Kilmarnock

Donation-based • Alll welcome.

Booking link in previous post

Namaste 🙏

Teaching this Sunday at Yoga for Everyone 🌿

As spring continues to unfold, I’ll be gently introducing some baseline yoga principles into this week’s practice with simple breath awareness, nervous system support & grounding through movement.

We’ll explore:
• gentle flow
• Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing)
• breath/led movement
• space to slow down & reconnect

A welcoming Sunday morning practice for everybody and every level.

🧘 Yoga for Everyone
📍 The Howard Centre, Kilmarnock
🗓 Sunday 10th May
⏰ 9:45–10:45am
💛 Donation-based community class

Mats provided, just bring You
Book here:
https://thewellnesshut.as.me/schedule/8d986163/?categories%5B%5D=null&fbclid=IwVERDUARoBydleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7QRqSUAduOX4v9g07aUslmgVATYWcMa2mZcke0d7lKR7gdVVSNUzRA1_oD2A_aem_8YRQTzUzdgi_KoR20193Og

or let me know directly
🪷
Namaste 🙏
West Coast Om

Arran, a week ago 🌿

Time by the sea, space to breathe…
and something quietly shifting underneath it all.

Back now, settling into life again on the mainland - bringing that sense of openness with me ✨

The reminder I’m keeping:
not everything needs pushing.
Some things unfold in their own time.
🪷
West Coast OM

YOGA FOR EVERYONE

Sunday morning rhythm 🌿

Tomorrow Ulrike will be guiding the Yoga for Everyone session, with a gentle focus on the body's main energy channels - Ida, Pingala and Sushumna.

A soft, steady class to bring balance through breath, awareness and simple movement.

🗓 Sunday 3rd May
🕘 9:45–10:45am
📍 The Howard Centre, Kilmarnock
💛 Donation-based

A quiet, welcoming space for body and breath.

See you there
West Coast Om