If you would like to give or receive a gift of wellbeing... I have some beautiful card gift vouchers that come with envelopes - these could be for whatever you fancy - whether it's a block of yoga classes, a therapeutic home massage, a 121 yoga / mindfulness session, a mindfulness workshop or course, or a contribution towards any of these! Useful information about vouchers I am happy to write a personal message in for you and post it to your happy recipient, or can post it di

I'm ill and can't sleep, so decided to do some writing. I wish you well this season and hope that you have a happy and healthy holiday. This can be a very challenging time for many of us, when the shiny, glitzy images of Christmas perfection adorning adverts and shops can highlight our emotional or physical pain, or whichever of "the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to" (as Shakespeare put it) we may be experiencing in the moment. This was to be my last day of wor

Are you stuck for pressie ideas? Why not give something truly memorable and enjoyable?

A little story about how mindfulness tools support me to cope better with stressful situations and how I have developed greater confidence and self belief as a result. I met my husband 5 years ago. Ever since I've known him he's been passionate about scuba diving and trained as an instructor last year. I always said I could never ever scuba dive. Why? Well: I am scared of deep water, not a confident swimmer, have a phobia of drowning and also have asthma, so can get anxious

I was excited to find this gorgeous image of a bird flying free from a cage for the poster for my next course. It is a symbol that resonates with changes that I have been through. For 12 years I worked in desk-based jobs, including in a job I was really passionate about, in the NHS – supporting the monitoring and improvement of quality of care and patient safety. However I just couldn’t quite fit myself into the role, I kept trying but it just didn’t suit me, and I got very s

How often do we pay attention to sensation in our bodies? “Autopilot” mode is very useful. We can use “muscle memory”, so that once we've learned to walk, run, cycle, swim, we can do it without having to think about it. We can even drive and eat a sandwich and worry about how bad the traffic is at the same time! However in daily life, our bodies often get ignored and used in a mechanical way, and we can find ourselves with very little awareness of what is going on in the bo