Embracing my feminine energy has been one of the most challenging aspects of my self-healing—learning to trust my intuition, stepping into my own womanhood, and honouring it in other women.

It’s not unusual to be unaware of the cultural and societal messages we are conditioned to accept about being a woman. These messages creep into our subconscious through learned behaviours and subtle, yet pervasive, influences from family, peers, and institutions.

In our modern society it’s easy to get into a place where we feel in a low grade flatness and totally accept it as normal.

For me, I find it's easier to be disciplined when I have no choice. As I've gotten older and have more respect for the frailty of my human body—although I don't see myself as frail; I see myself as a very strong individual woman—I also recognise that I need to keep a balance.

I'm a big fan of ritual. I think it infiltrates my whole life actually, probably more than I even realise. But I start the morning with gratitude.

We're fixers and healers and we want to nurture everybody, and actually most of us, we just offload it so that it's not in our nervous systems anymore. So, a really big drive for me is how can we bring that back to community?

I used to feel like my spiritual practice had to be done in the morning, I had to sit on my meditation cushion, I had to cross my legs and this is how it has to look, this is how it has to feel, and I took those shoulds away. I took the shoulds, replaced them with the coulds.

Much has been said about spending time in nature being beneficial for our mental and physical wellbeing which I wholeheartedly agree with. However you can take it to a deeper level and become so intimate with nature that it’s possible to reach a place of inner tranquility that stems the flow of mind chatter, introducing us to our wild self.

In the forgiving practice of self-discovery, I've uncovered a beautiful rhythm in my yoga practice. It's more than just the poses; it's a sacred space where time is invested each week, creating room for me to connect with my inner self. This ritual begins the moment I book my class, setting the stage for a heartfelt journey.