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Thank you @stralayoga for the best weekend. I don’t think my practice will ever be the same again. Days full of sunshine - inside and outside this beautiful space. It’s been nice breathing with you, lovely people. Until next time...

This is where the magic happens. In a beautiful light studio, inside a secret garden in the super cool city of Berlin. This is the scene of the @stralayoga intensive training. After a day spent learning how to move with true ease and softness, I really do feel better. It has made me question all sorts of things about my own practice. I have felt so frazzled in the last year, and my practice has not always calmed me down or been the relief I have needed. I have found that it is hard to silence the dialogue in my own head, correcting my my own practice and telling me to push down and pull up and draw in various parts of my tired and aching body. The noise disturbs my practice and I can’t seem to shake the tension I have been carrying in my shoulders and neck for- honestly - months. I think I have been utterly exhausted. Anyway, I felt something shift today. It doesn’t have to be so darned difficult. I walked through the subway station on the way home with a new sense of lightness. The most inspiring day. Thank you lovely people. X

A bright, cold winter’s morning in Berlin...bundled up and on my way to @stralayoga training! I love this city. There is so much to look at. And it actually feels wonderful to be somewhere so urban for a change.

Crazy weather! Yesterday I set off for a walk - with baby Judy on my back - in lovely sunshine and suddenly it all went crazy. Hail, snow, wind. And obviously at the point that I was furthest away from home. It must have been that big old moon. 🌙

I love the passing of the seasons. These days, I feel more and more aware of the tiny little changes that mark the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Maybe it is having a little 4 year old who notices everything and actually jumps up and down when she sees a daffodil shoot. Or maybe it is living somewhere a little wilder. Or maybe as I get older it is realising that these seemingly small things - green shoots, spring colours, a slight change in the light, the feel of a truly warm sun on my face after a long winter - these are actually the big things. The magic things.

The beautiful Shrewsbury Buddhist Centre, full of daffodils this morning. What a lovely scene for my first pregnancy class. I feel so privileged to get to teach my gorgeous bunch of ladies in this special space. And after class we feasted on dark chocolate and camomile tea. Heaven.

Here are the Shropshire hills looking lovely as ever on my walk yesterday. Being able to get out into the countryside makes such a difference to my daily life. Yesterday my poorly 4 year old wasn't up for walking far but even a short stroll with this landscape felt totally restorative.

--Tea and a book break -- Ginger tea, homemade banana bread and this beautiful, beautiful book by @sketchymuma - a gift from my lovely friend @fayehedges . It is the most moving hand drawn account of pregnancy and motherhood. Little pictures and little captions with BIG messages and so much heart. It may make you cry. Or wail. Depending on how much sleep you've had. I ❤️it.

--Midwinter blues --In my yoga class this morning my fabulous teacher talked a lot about how we feel midwinter. Energy levels are often low. We feel tired, sluggish. The days are short and dark and we feel like hibernating. But rather than listening to these feelings, the tendency in January is to throw ourselves into overdrive with new exercise regimes, forcing the body to be active when it wants to rest. So instead, why not just rest a little more this January? Wrap up, stay warm, go outside when the weather is inviting and cosy up inside when it isn't. Learning to listen to the body, the breath, the mind...this will do far more good than forcing the body to do something it doesn't want to.

Hi!

I’m Victoria, a yoga teacher, writer and mother to Fleur (age 4) and baby Judy. I am passionate about yoga and it is a key part of my life. I believe yoga and motherhood have a particularly special connection – a connection which inspires and fascinates me on a daily basis.

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