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Amazing #daisies! They open up in the sunshine and then close down again for night time, or when a cloud comes over and definitely when its raining. I've been watching the daisies in my lawn - they've had a busy week of opening and closing with the very variable weather! What can we learn from the daisies? How do we manage our own energy according to the variable 'weather' of our lives? When is the best time to open and when do we need to close down? What happens when we try to stay 'open' all of the time? This is a theme I'll be exploring in my next yoga evening for women on Sunday 30 June. It is called 'Being in the Cycles' and is for women of all ages. Link in bio! #beinginthecyles #yoga #wombyoga #restorativeyoga #lucymaresh #shilbottle #northumberland Video from @shutterstock.

Our view in #June. Still time to join us for a yoga break or just a quiet trip this summer. We're getting some amazing reviews on Airbnb! Thanks to everyone who has stayed and left such lovely comments. We are closing the B&B at the end of July while we build our new kitchen so get in quick if you want to join us this summer. https://aspacetobe.co.uk/retreats/ #summer #shilbottle #northumberland #cowparsley #aspacetobeyogaretreat

What a lovely surprise to find these #poppies on our regular walk up by Town Foot Farm! #shilbottle #northumberland #aspacetobeyogaretreat

Two weeks until our Summer Solstice Labyrinth walk. SUNDAY 23 JUNE. Join us at Warkworth beach any time from 12 to help construct and decorate the labyrinth. Beach yoga and meditation from 2pm. Family friendly, kids welcome. Bring your buckets and spades and a picnic. #summersolstice #labyrinthwalk #labyrinthmeditation #beachlabyrinth #beinginthecycles #lucymaresh #aspacetobeyogaretreat #northumberland

The beautiful Orla Jackson and her daughter Aoife enjoying a foot soak together on their Mother Nurture Retreat. Thank you Orla for the permission to share your photo and your kind words. "A huge huge thank you for the support and way you held and nourished us over the weekend. Glorious massage. And your Lucy style of yoga makes my heart sing! After a weekend at yours I felt like the old me, remembering my love of yoga and also my love of teaching it. A real Mother Nurture experience!" #yoga #yogaretreat #massage #mothernurturenorthumberland #selfcare #lucymaresh #aspacetobeyogaretreat #northumberland #footsoak #thefootloveritual #yogateacher #teachernurture

www.mothernurture.yoga/blog just recently updated with posts about pregnancy posture and pelvic floor care. Currently pregnant? Join me this Sunday 2 June for a Birth Preparation workshop, and every Saturday at 11.15am for weekly movement and relaxation. #yoga #pregnancy #pregnancyyoga #birth #pelvicfloor #birthingball #posture #mothernurturenorthumberland #lucymaresh #shilbottle #northumberland

Me and my baby in May 2009 - ten years ago!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I'm still practicing and teaching many of the things I learned during my first pregnancy and the #postnatal recovery time that followed. Have I ever gone back to 'normal yoga'? Well, no, because frankly I have never gone back to 'normal' (whatever that means) and also, I discovered something exciting about my body in the process of having a baby - it's FEMALE!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Now, that might sound obvious, but to be quite honest I had never really thought much about the feminine aspects of my body before pregnancy - and awkward reminders like my period were something I generally tried to avoid with the contraceptive pill - or just pretend it wasn't happening.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #Pregnancy, and the #yoga practices I learned during my pregnancy, helped me see that my female body is pretty awesome. Giving #birth helped me see my female body is pretty damn powerful. So even though my children are older now, I continue to do my yoga practice in a way that is respectful and kind to my female body - e.g. my wider pelvis, larger pelvic floor (with an extra hole), existence of my uterus and its monthly shape-shifting to name just a few obvious things that make me different from a man.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Mother Nurture Yoga" is my name for the yoga practices I have used to look after my energy and wellbeing in the last ten years. Broadly speaking this includes:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - deep relaxations⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - long exhalations⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - joint liberation⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - and lots of stabilisation (physically and otherwise!) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Read more about Mother Nurture Yoga and why I never went back to normal on my blog: http://www.mothernurture.yoga/blog⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #mothernurturenorthumberland #pregnancyyoga #postnatalyoga #babyyoga #wombyoga #lucymaresh #shilbottle #beinginthecycles #thereisnobacktonormal

SAVE THE DATE Being in the Cycles - Sunday 30 June - 6.30-8.30pm, Shilbottle Community Hall Yoga practice is about developing awareness – of our moving and breathing patterns, our thinking and feeling patterns. How can we do this without really seeing the unfolding of the stages of our life and, as women, of each menstrual cycle (and our initiation into menopause)? ‘Being in the Cycles’ is an invitation to cultivate this awareness – directing attention towards the cyclical patterns of our inner life, and respecting the needs of our female bodies. If you've ever had a period this workshop is for you. #yoga #wombyoga #beinginthecycles #lucymaresh #shilbottle #northumberland

"Tend the empty spaces... ... to simply give yourself over to emptiness is an act of rebellion and a Medicine for these times." - Catherine Pawson (full text below) * I'm off to Stroud for a weekend of #totalyoganidra. The intention is to bring this two day immersion course to Northumberland later in the year. There are many different approaches to #yoganidra and the Total Yoga Nidra Immersion provides an opportunity to sample different methods and techniques. * Tend the Empty Spaces by Catherine Pawson (2017) "It is not only the double helix spiral of our genes that informs our particular shape, the creation that is you and me. That bright spiral has a dark twin, dwelling in the spaces and the shadows within the serpentine twist. This is the space into which creation flows like a mighty river, stellar tides inrushing. These two, the form and the space, are ever dancing, ever whirling together. Tend the empty spaces within and all around you for they are precious and holy. Demarcate their boundaries with your fierceness for it will take all you have while the world around you clamours for your productivity, your visibility, the marks of your belonging. While the world around you lurches in its addiction to brightness, to fire, to the certainty only of form, to simply give yourself over to emptiness is an act of rebellion and a Medicine for these times. Intentionally un-belong. Allow a delicious falling into the in-between spaces. Practice invisibility, don it like a costume and allow it to release you into a different shape. Knowing the deep belonging of your being here, on this planet at this time, what is it that calls you in that wide dark space, in the freedom of a chosen exile for a while." Tend the Empty Spaces -- Catherine Pawson 2017 #tendtheemptyspaces #yoganidra #savasana #restorativeyoga #lucymaresh #beinginthecycles #aspacetobeyogaretreat #restisrebellion

Gratitude

For the many hundreds of women and babies that have been part of Mother Nurture Yoga since 2008.

For Tara Fraser – who awakened in me and continues to nurture my inner teacher.

For Uma Dinsmore-Tuli – who teaches me to listen to my womb wisdom.

For Judith Hanson Lasater – who teaches me how to do nothing.

For my own two yoga-babies who teach me about everything.

Namaste

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