These are the good days…

Over the last few months I have been part of a Yoga Philosophy & meditation course. My reason for signing up; I felt that my knowledge lacked depth as my training was very ‘movement’ heavy and very little philosophy. What I didn’t expect to gain (and it’s only been three months) was a shift inside me and a slow return to my love of yoga.

For those that know me, know I’m not going to be carrying out the most elaborate asanas, and that’s okay. Being a yoga teacher doesn’t mean you have to be able to demonstrate a headstand, or manipulate my body into crow or fish pose. For me, being a Yoga teacher, any movement teacher, is supporting people to achieve their version of what a particular movement may look and feel like.

Most importantly Yoga is way more than the asanas (movements/postures), actually they’re a teeny tiny spec in comparison to what Yoga actually is.

During a Yoga School session ran by @the_lovely_catalyst we were discussing contentment (Santosha) one of the 8 limbs of yoga.

“Santosha or 'contentment' doesn't mean idly sitting back and relinquishing the need to do anything. It simply means accepting and appreciating what we have and what we are already, and moving forwards from there.”

Which brings me to the point behind the post. How often are we looking back, nostalgically, reminiscing about how good things were? Or striving a little too much, in the anticipation of what may come in the future? As it was so beautifully put in the session ‘these are the good days’. These are the days we should try to raise our vibration, and draw likeminded energy towards us, by reminding ourselves that they are the good days (even if sometimes those days feel pretty tough).

How To Move Stuck Energy In The Body

Energy can be stored in the body in all kinds of ways — through stress, emotion, physical tension, or past experiences. But just as it’s held, it can also be released. Here's how I support your energy flow through movement and holistic therapies.

Reiki

This gentle, hands-on energy healing works intuitively to balance your energetic field. Reiki supports deep rest, emotional release, and a return to your natural state of calm and clarity.

Crystal Healing

Crystals work with your body's energy field to rebalance, ground, and harmonise areas that feel stuck or depleted. Each stone carries its own supportive frequency to help shift what’s ready to move.

Reflexology

Working through pressure points on the feet, reflexology gently stimulates energy pathways throughout the body. It helps clear blockages, promote circulation, and restore internal balance — all through the soles of your feet.

Movement (Pilates & Yoga)

Mindful movement shifts stagnant energy, releases tension, and reconnects you with your breath and body. It's a powerful way to build strength, enhance awareness, and move energy from the inside out.

Every body holds energy. Let’s help yours flow.

Your body holds energy — in your muscles, your breath, your emotions, and even your nervous system. We notice this more when we are out of balance, when it is stuck. But it doesn’t have to stay stuck.

This week’s post is all about how energy moves through the body — and how different practices like reflexology, movement, Reiki, and crystal therapy can support its natural flow.

If you’ve been feeling tense, heavy, or just a little off, these gentle yet powerful therapies can help clear the way for ease, vitality, and balance.

Whether it’s through touch, movement, or stillness, there’s a path that will feel right for you. Let’s explore it — together.

Which one speaks to you right now?

🙇🏼‍♀️ Feeling not quite YOU? 🙇🏼‍♀️

🤦‍♀️ Do you feel?

Out of balance in your body, and/or mind?

Unsure how to be YOU?

Out of control?

🧘🏼‍♀️ Do you long to feel?

A restored inner balance?

A re-centred body and mind?

A return of your sense of self, your confidence, your YOU!

👣 How can Reflexology achieve this?

Restores inner balance by stimulating the body's natural healing response.

Promotes deep relaxation, allowing you to release stress and emotional tension.

Encourages self-awareness through a calm, grounded state of mind.

Clears energetic blockages, helping you feel more in tune with your body and emotions.

Supports mental clarity, making space to reconnect with your true self and direction.

🤲🏽 What is Reflexology?

Reflexology is a holistic therapy that uses gentle pressure on specific points of the feet, hands, or face to support the body’s natural healing. By stimulating these reflex points, it helps release tension, restore energetic flow, and bring balance to the physical, emotional, and spiritual self—reconnecting mind, body, and spirit in a deeply calming and grounding way.

🙌🏽 The results?

Through regular reflexology sessions emotions can achieve that return to self, the control return to your body and a re-established connection between your body and mind.

The confidence within you will shine through for you and those around you to see.

📆 Ready to realign and rebalance? Book your session today?

✨ Tired of Feeling that Disconnection? ✨

🙇🏼‍♀️ You are FED UP feeling a disconnection?

With those around you?
With yourself?
Tired of feeling ‘not quite right’?

🪢 You NEED to feel that reconnection?

You are tired of trying to find ways to become:

✅Focused and clear
✅Clear on your intentions
✅Clear on what it is you want
✅Clear on what is no longer serving you?

Do you know that Reiki can help you achieve all of the above?

How Reiki can achieve this?

🧠Focus & Mental Clarity
Clears mental fog, reduces stress, and improves concentration.

💭Clear Intentions
Aligns energy with your true desires, enhancing self-awareness.

📝Know What You Want
Strengthens intuition, helping you recognise your goals.

🗯️Release What Doesn’t Serve You
Clears emotional blocks, letting go of negativity.

Reiki creates balance, helping you move forward with confidence and purpose.

💫 What is Reiki? 💫

Reiki is a deeply calming energy therapy that works on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. A gentle, yet powerful, hands-on (or hands-off) technique clears energy blockages, restores harmony, and encourages deep relaxation.

⭐️ The Results? ⭐️

By combining Reiki and crystal therapy, these powerful healing energies work together to clear blockages, restoring balance to your body and mind. You’ll leave feeling lighter, happier, calmer, centred, and re-energised, with a renewed sense of clarity and inner peace.

Ready to reconnect, realign and restore? Book your session today.

⭐️Rebalance Your Energy: The Power of Reflexology, Reiki & Crystal Work⭐️

In our fast-paced world, it’s easy for energy to become scattered, blocked, or depleted. Reflexology, Reiki, and Crystal Healing work harmoniously to restore balance, leaving you feeling lighter, more centered, and deeply rejuvenated.

✨ Reflexology gently stimulates reflex points on the feet, hands, or face, encouraging the body’s natural healing response. It promotes circulation, releases tension, and clears stagnant energy—helping you feel grounded and revitalised.

✨ Reiki is a deeply calming energy therapy that works on the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. This gentle hands-on (or hands-off) technique clears energy blockages, restores harmony, and encourages deep relaxation.

✨ Crystal Healing enhances these treatments by using the vibrational properties of crystals to amplify energy shifts. Each crystal carries unique frequencies that can align chakras, absorb negativity, and promote emotional well-being.

Together, these therapies create a holistic synergy—cleansing, rebalancing, and supporting your body’s natural ability to heal. Whether you’re seeking stress relief, emotional clarity, or a deeper connection to yourself, this combination offers a profound sense of renewal.

✨ RECONNECTION…and getting your head out your a*$✨

At the beginning of the year I promised myself I would make this year the year to really tune into me. Instead of learning new skills to add to my business, be all about my business, I knew it was important to (apologies for the cliche) be the best version of myself, a true version of me! For the past couple of months I have been working with the amazing @louisedickofficial on stepping into my intuition, having a deeper understanding of the energy around me and so much more!

Last night it all clicked into place! I won’t lie, there have been times over the past few weeks I thought I was kidding myself that I could tune in, in the ways I wanted to, but with patience and finally being in the right headspace, it clicked into place. Thank you for your patience Louise!

This headspace wouldn’t be there without the support of another fantastic human being who keeps me in check when I go astray - @businessmentoring.triciamurray . Through business mentoring, as a colleague and as a friend, she reminds me to get my head out my a$* at times - which I do a lot! So basically what started as a post wanting to share how I feel that my intuition is tuned in more than ever, I have to acknowledge the people who have got me to this place.

There are others, but in true perimenopausal style I’ve forgot who they all are! If you’re looking for spiritual development then look no further than @louisedickofficial - she truly is amazing If you have your own business, or want to get your business off to a PROPER start, then @businessmentoring.triciamurray is the mentor for you!

OSTARA CARD PULL

As we welcome the light and the warmth gradually back into our lives I thought I would start my new year as I mean to by introducing a little bit more of me to the page.

In celebration of Ostara where we welcome the return of light and growth and invite in renewal, fertility, and new beginnings (the awakening of nature and the cycle of life), I have pulled three cards, choose the card that calls to you and read my interpretation when reading each card. Using the very apt gorgeous Ostara Deck.

⭐️Interpretations⭐️

1. The Eight of Cups signifies walking away, seeking deeper fulfillment, and leaving behind what no longer serves you. The eight of cups represents emotional growth, soul-searching, and moving toward something more meaningful.

2. The Hierophant represents tradition, spiritual wisdom, and established beliefs. It signifies guidance from a mentor, structured learning, and following conventional paths. The Hierophant invites you to consider the desire for a deeper sense of meaning from life or possibly a call to learn.

3. The Four of Coins / Pentacles represents stability, control, and holding onto resources tightly. It can indicate financial security, but also fear of loss, possessiveness, or resistance to change. The four of coins/pentacles suggests a need for balance between saving and allowing abundance to flow.

Happy Ostara everyone 🧡

Grounding…after burnout

At the end of 2024, I made a promise to myself to take the beginning of the year to bring calm to myself and my business. A kind of New Year’s resolution (but totally telling myself it wasn’t).

The past few weeks have been incredibly busy! I overcommitted, overpromised, and was overambitious. Sound familiar?

Did I succeed? Well, I did take some steps, but then I overcommitted again and took on too many tasks. I’m sure you can relate to that!

The result was mild burnout. I realised pretty quickly that things weren’t going as well as they should have been, and it could have been much worse. It was still challenging, and I had to make difficult decisions that felt like I was letting people down or failing.

In my efforts to reconnect with my yoga roots, I stumbled upon meditation. I was skeptical at first because I had done meditation before and I usually fall asleep during it. But this time, it worked. It was as if the right time, the right approach, or other work I had done to get me to this point clicked.

Another addition to my grounding routine is journaling. I’ll be honest, I’m not as enthusiastic about it, but it does work—even if it’s just to clear my mind.

Now, my daily grounding goals are:

⭐️ Meditation

⭐️ Movement

⭐️ Journaling

These are simple, non-intense practices.

I’d love to hear about any grounding practices you use 🧡

Slowing Down: Breaking the Cycle of Constant Momentum

How has your week been? Have you found time to pause, or has it been another whirlwind of movement—physically, mentally, emotionally?

Lately, I’ve noticed something… Whether in daily life or the classes I’ve been covering (not my lovely Vesta movers, of course!), there’s a theme: we are always rushing. Rushing to appointments, rushing through tasks, and even in movement practices, hurrying to reach the peak pose rather than experiencing the mind/body connection.

But here’s the thing—this rushing isn’t always about getting to a physical place. It’s ingrained in us now, a momentum we don’t even question. We’ve been moving at high speed for so long that slowing down feels unfamiliar, even uncomfortable.

Why Are We Always Rushing?

For many of us, rushing has become second nature. Perhaps it’s modern life, filled with endless to-do lists, deadlines, and responsibilities. Maybe it’s the pressure to be productive, to keep up, to achieve. Or maybe we just don’t realize we’re doing it. But when we move through life at full speed, we miss so much—the connection to ourselves, to others, to the present moment.

I see it in movement classes; students eager to reach the ‘goal’ of a pose, moving faster than suggested, missing the subtleties of breath, muscle engagement, and the deep mind-body connection. But what if the real magic isn’t in getting there—but in being here?

A Simple Invitation to Pause

Slowing down doesn’t mean stopping. It doesn’t mean doing less. It simply means being present with what you’re already doing. It can be as simple as:

Taking your tea or coffee outside and really listening—to the birds, the wind, the sounds around you.

• Walking at a comfortable pace, rather than rushing, and noticing the feeling of your feet on the ground.

• Taking a pause, checking in on your breath, before moving onto the next task.

• Eating a meal without distractions—no phone, no screens, just you and your food, maybe even with family or friends.

• Placing a hand on your heart tea, finding your centre and simply noticing how you feel in this moment.

None of these require extra time—just a shift in awareness.

If this resonates with you, I invite you to try one of these moments of pause today. It doesn’t have to be anything big or forced. Just a small shift, a breath, a moment where you choose to slow down. And if you do, I’d love to hear how it felt for you.

Rebuild Your Vital Essence with Ojas

If you’re feeling depleted, constantly moving, or craving deep nourishment on all levels, I invite you to join my upcoming class; Ojas.

Through movement, relaxation, and meditation, we’ll work on:

• Strengthening immunity and resilience

• Building endurance, vitality, and stamina

• Supporting mental clarity and emotional stability

• Enhancing spiritual awareness and overall radiance

This class is designed to re-establish your vital essence, helping you feel more grounded, energized, and balanced. If this resonates with you, come and experience what it feels like to truly slow down and replenish.

📅 Weekly from 16th April at 8:15pm
📍 The Steading, Rosewell
🔗 Email hello@vestawellbeing.co.uk to register interest

Take a breath. Take a moment. And if you're ready to deeply restore your energy, I’d love to see you in class.

✨ Crystals Unlocked: Grids, Energy & Intuition ✨

📍 Yoga Den, East Linton

🗓 Sunday 16th March 2-4pm

Join me for a magical workshop where you’ll discover how to harness the power of crystals in your daily life!

💎 Learn to cleanse & program crystals

🔮 Create simple yet powerful crystal grids

✨ Deepen your intuition & energy work

PLUS! You’ll receive a hand-picked selection of crystals (worth £10) to start or enhance your collection!

Spaces are limited—book now!

https://vestawellbeing.as.me/schedule/69f039c8/appointment/73248796/calendar/10505196