Grace & Blaze Yoga

Magical Summer Solstice Family Celebration 💫 with Aina , Berta and myself this June ☀️☀️☀️

This is your opportunity to join us for a truly magical Summer Celebration with your family/ partner/ friends, at an exclusive Costa Brava cala. Fun, games and ritual to really honour the longest day and the peak hours of sunlight. Let’s go have a beach day all together! ☀️

Cala Sa Conca is considered one of the best beaches in Catalunya, a beautiful bay with shady trees behind it and gorgeous clear water. It’s a private beach, meaning it’s not open to the general public, but due to a family connection we have exclusive car access for a limited number of cars. That means stress free parking a close distance to the beach itself as well as access to this private beach normally only for locals.

It’s a 1hr drive away and we will be leading Summer Solstice activities from 10-12:30, music, dance, fairy and gnome hunt and arts and crafts for little and big and kids alike. Culminating in a group ritual swim!! Then enjoy the rest of the day just relaxing on the beach 💛

So, get up early, pack a picnic and make a Sunday Costa Brava day of it. It’s going to be magical ⭐️💫✨

☀️Cala Sa Conca, S’Agaró, Costa Brava
☀️Sunday 16th June, 10-12:30h
☀️Everyone welcome
☀️*Cost is 50€ per car *
This is to encourage car pooling as better for environment and obv for us. Fill your car with 5 and just 10€ each.
☀️ Places are limited so please do get in touch asap if you’d like to join us ✨
☀️DM me, Jo, to reserve your page

A weekend of intense highs and lows. Life seems on techni colour at the moment. Exquisitve beauty, joy, magic, community spirit, family reunions, celebrations of life playing out in direct parallel to fear, sadness, panic, relational challenges. Polar opposures at play. The extreme dualities of life. Right here right now. Both sides of a coin. Experiencing it all.

So I come to the woods, to recalibrate, to rewild, to strip it all away and remember simple truths. To be held by mother nature. It helps ✨

I think of your song . I wander to the forest, and on my knees I pray, I look over the green mountains and I cry my tears away, I ask for clarity, I ask for peace and there amongst the trees brings relief 🌿🙏🏼✨

PS Abbey has a new song out - the one playing with this image. Please like it on 🙏🏼

Pure magic celebrating this goddess Alice as she transitions into becoming a mother ✨ Her journey has not been without its struggles and so we stand in awe of her and her husband Franki in the journey they have been on to reach this pivotal place.

Alice we could not love you more and know that this little baby will be so blessed to have you both as parents. You will be a wonderful mum and we are here supporting you every step of the way 💗💗💗

Blessing for a Mother-to-Be
From Benedictus by John O’Donohue

Nothing could have prepared
Your heart to open like this.

From beyond the skies and the stars
This echo arrived inside you
And started to pulse with life;
Each beat a tiny act of growth,
Traversing all our ancient shapes
On its way home to itself.

Once it began, you were no longer your own.
A new, more courageous you, offering itself
In a new way to a presence you can sense
But you have not seen or known.

It has made you feel alone
In a way you never knew before;
Everyone else sees only from the outside
What you feel and feed
With every fibre of your being.

Never have you travelled further inward
Where words and thoughts become half-light
Unable to reach the fund of brightness,
Strengthening inside the night of your womb.

Like some primeval moon,
Your soul brightens
The tides of essence
That flow to your child.

You know your life has changed forever,
For in all the days and years to come,
Distance will never be able to cut you off
From the one you now carry
For nine months under your heart.

May you be blessed with quiet confidence
That destiny will guide you and mind you.

May the emerging spirit of your child
Imbibe encouragement and joy
From the continuous music of your heart, so that it can grow with ease.
Expectant of wonder and welcome
When its form is fully filled.

And it makes its journey out
To see you and settle at last
Relieved, and glad in your arms.

On a wet and windy May Day (every day it rains I’m grateful so that’s not a complaint more a celebration) a group of brave and some might say, crazy, Las Divinas women set out to do a coastal hike on the Costa Brava. We drove an hour North in torrential rain, armed with raincoats and umbrellas but the smiles on our faces were wide and true.

As we arrived the rain paused, and after a swift cheeky Cana to perk us up, we set off. Chatting, laughing we climbed stairs, navigated rocks, tunnels and windy pathways. Never happier than when in nature we constantly stopped, to catch our breath!) and to gaze at the beauty of the sea, the pine trees, the yellow rocky coastline, to smell and admire the wild flowers and plants. Wild women in their element!

After a stunning hike, we reached Sant Feliu de Guíxols where my dear friend Sandra had organized for us to have a cozy and intimate lunch, in a very nice restaurant, where we filled ourselves up (literally there was so much!) with delicious food and wine. A few more Las Divinas joined us there to happily complete our group. Cue more chatting, more laughter, it was for me a extremely happy and a near perfect day. Nature, Movement, Friendship and Food ✨🌿💛

A year ago started Las Divinas women’s circle with, if I’m honest, the selfish intention of finding community and friends. I wanted a group of women locally to where I live. I have wonderful friends in Barcelona and around and in the UK, but I wanted those that lived close to who shared my interests, who were curious and passionate about their lives and who enjoyed new experiences.

A year on I can safely say I’ve met that intention. I feel so lucky to have each and every one of these women in my life- and many more who couldn’t make it yesterday. I enjoy their presence, their wisdom and insights, their perspectives and their energy. I celebrate their wins and their vulnerabilities. They hold and support me in ways they can’t possibly know. They make me laugh too 😆

So I guess this is an appreciation post for them but also for myself for forming this group which a year ago was completely unknown. And to the magic that happens when you just believe ✨☔️🌿💛

Las Divinas Women’s Circle is back, with a six week journey to REWILD you ✨

The dictionary definition of ReWilding is ~ to restore (something) to its natural and uncultivated state.

It’s true essence.

Recall the wisdom of Mother Nature. Relax, Release and Resensitize your body. Rediscover your instinct and intuition. Remember the whispers of your heart. Reconnect to sensual pleasure.

Are you ready to liberate your glorious wild nature?

What the REWILD journey includes:
✨6 x 2 hour in person circles led by Jo.
✨ Weekly guided somatic practices which lead you to deeper connection with your body and unlock your potential for pleasure and joy.
✨Rituals and practices that honour nature and ourselves.
✨Opportunities to get quiet and really hear and connect to your truth.
✨Suggested practices to take home to support your rewilding. Commit to these to see real change.
✨Listening and sharing in supportive sisterhood. Every week the opportunity to be truly heard and share of where you are at in your journey.
✨And a sprinkling of just three incredible special guests to support the ride!
-Moon Magic with Sam
- Reclaim Your Desires with Brigette
- Sacred Sensuality and Alchemising Breathwork with Audrey .

Closed container (fixed group, no drop ins) to create trust, deepen connections and friendships. I am calling in a group of women who are committed to all six circles to allow the journey to unfold fully for everyone🙏🏼

✨Starting Thursay May 9th until Thursday 13th June.
✨19:30- 21:30h
✨Es Calma, Cabrils .calma
✨120€ for all 6 until 2nd May and then 150€ for all 6 after this date.
✨Contact me Jo directly for more info or to reserve your place

Very excited that my normal Mama Yoga class this Thursday at will be a Mama (and baby) Singing Circle 💫🎶🥰

I’ve regularly been going to the Heart Singing Circles hosted by the wonderful and I’m beyond thrilled that Abbey is going to be bringing her talents to our Mamas Circle for this one off special!

We always include normally a little bit of singing in our Mum and Baby Yoga classes anyway as it’s a great way to soothe, entertain and connect with the little ones. They bond with your voice, the first they ever heard, and it’s an expression of your love for them. They don’t care if you sing well or not, just that it’s yours!!

Singing also has the added benefit of toning the pelvic floor (have you ever seen images of the vocal cords and pelvic floor- they’re remarkably similar!) The body is connected and using the breath to sing engages the muscular system through the lungs, diaphragm, abdominal muscles and all the way down to the pelvic floor.

Singing also gives the opportunity to authentically release and express our emotions and our voice. Things that as mums we can sometimes feel we’ve lost a sense of, or no longer have the time and space to to feel into, during the huge life changing transition of becoming a parent.

Finally, it’s just pure fun! To sing, to lift ourselves with live music and creative expression, especially in circle with others is JOYFUL! Can’t wait to see us all singing and dancing together 🎶✨🥰

Full details:

🎶 Thursday 25th May: 12-13:30h
✨ Shanti Vida
🥰 With Jo and Abbey
🎶 20pp or 2 x classes if you have a 5x class pack
✨ All welcome, pregnant mums, mums and babies, dads!
🥰 No singing experience required and as always it’s your class so please know you can do exactly as you wish when you wish, feed, change, comfort, take a quiet moment. This is your class and there is no pressure 🙏🏼

Get in touch if you’d like to join ❤️

5 years of you Alfie 😍 Our sweet sunshine boy. Our Magic Alfie. You have bought so much joy and happiness to us all and we couldn’t love you more.

An amazing dancer, you love nothing more than putting on a show for us with your quick fast feet moves. You’re into cars - this year’s presents were all hot wheels. You have an infectious smile and heart, you really carry warmth and kindness with you, which I think (I know I’m biased) touches everyone you meet. You’ve grown in confidence a lot this year especially with Catalan and your friends. You skip happily on the way in to school - although you still don’t like lunch there (especially if it’s fish!). You’re independent but still love boo boo cuddles with mummy and riding on Daddy’s shoulders. You ride a bike no problem and love trying to skateboard. Your big brother and sister adore you and you play a lot of Lego, assault courses and bashing with jake and make believe games, swinging in the tree and treasure hunts with Ruby. You complete us and our family and I can’t believe 5 years ago I didn’t know you or couldn’t imagine how life would be with you and three kids. You are a light. You are sunshine on a plate. In fact the kids play a game where they’re all different elements and are you are Sol ☀️Never forget to shine your light bright sweetheart 💛✨love you so. 💛☀️✨ much.

I carry you in my heart,
everywhere that I go
I carry you in my heart,
because I love you so. (Much).

This is Alfie’s special poem that I have been saying to him since he was tiny. He always adds the ‘much’ at the end 🤣

My kids birthdays always affect me profoundly but this one is a big one as we kiss goodbye with our last child to the baby years. No more nappies, potty training or baby snuggles. Bittersweet. I honour the different stages of my life, the different parts of me, the different versions of me as a mother - a continuous changing journey. I grieve and I acknowledge the sadness of saying goodbye to them as tiny little ones, but also welcome in with great joy and appreciation where we are right now, the new experiences to come and I give thanks for it all ✨☀️💫

Happy Easter fron me and my gang to yours ⚡️

The winds of change are blowing in, this April 🍃✨

Here’s my upcoming events this month:

🪴Sat 6th April 15h - 18h. AWAKEN ✨ A Las Divinas monthly circle with Jo and Shamanic counselling and journeying trained, Silvia . Experience an introduction to Shamanic practices in a fun and accessible way. Cacao ceremony, ecstatic dance, power places and animals, rock divination and feather smudge wand creation. At , Cabrils. Cost: 35€ until 01/04 then 40€
Contact Jo to reserve

🩷Saturday 17th April. Date Night- Cycle. Breathwork with Fran, sensual movement and conscious conversations on the theme of Cycles in our bodies and relationships. At Shanti Vida, Gotico.

🌕 Saturday 27th April: Full Moon Supper Club, free social event, with pot luck dinner for members of the Las Divinas circle.

🌸Plus ongoing Mama Yoga at Shanti Vida every Thursday. Mum and Baby at 12-13h and Prenatal Yoga at 17h - 18h

Get in touch of you’d like to join or follow links in bio 🙏🏼

Our Spring Wishes Pot Family, growing strong 🌱 ✨✨

From our Wild Delight; Spring Equinox seasonal circles for families 💛

Turning towards the light ☀️Happy Spring Equinox! Officially the first day of Spring🌱💗🪴✨🌸

A day of celebration as we move from the darker, winter, yin more inward looking part of the year into the brighter, more sun and light filled yang seasons.

This morning at 4.06am the sun passed the equator moving from the southern to the northern hemisphere and the North Pole began to lean toward the sun again. At this moment, day and night are approximately the same length.

Take a moment today if you can to consider, journal or meditate on what is it you want to let go of or release from the cycle of winter that has gone? What is is you want to birth or bring into the light for this new Spring season? Consider the light and dark in your life, a natural part of life for us all. How can you find balance between the two?

A ritual idea that I did this morning:
Go outside and feel the air on you face, the ground beneath your feet, perhaps light 3 candles, one to represent the blossoming new earth, one to represent the sun, one to represent the divine life force or universal energy or whatever you prefer to call it. Sit and meditate on where you are in between all of these 🌸 give thanks and perhaps make an offering to the earth, for all the gifts you have and all that you will at some point receive 🌸

Happy first day of Spring my loves! May this season be filled with joy, hope, new beginnings and blessings for you all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being part of this community 💗💗💗

Ps today is also the start of Aries and Eclipse season and the beginning of the astrological new year. It’s a BIG day

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🌸BLOOM: Mother Daughter Connection Circle 🌸

THIS Saturday 23 March. 15- 18h, Cabrils with me Jo and my daughter Ruby and my dear friend Sam 💗

At the time of the Spring Equinox we are immersed in the rising energy of growth and play. This is the time of the maiden and a special time for Mothers and Daughters to cherish and nourish their connection.

Join us in circle, in a beautiful natural setting with other mothers and daughters, to celebrate your unbreakable bond through movement, massage, sharing, song and sweet rituals to shower each other with love.

Appropriate for girls age 4+
3-6 pm, Cabrils, A beautiful garden location
25mins outside BCN
30€ pp
Contact Jo for more info 🌸

The Spring Equinox (or the Vernal Equinox) is the first day of spring season. This year it is happening tomorrow, Wednesday 20th March at 5:06am CET 🌸

It’s the moment in the year when the sun passes the equator moving from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The North Pole begins to lean toward the sun again. For this short moment, day and night are approximately the same length.

Spring represents new beginnings, like a new day; like a new breath, it’s dawn in the wheel of the year. A new sun is rising. Life is waking up in the warm sunlight & your spirit may feel ready to make a fresh start. Nature is bright & coming alive, hopefully you’re feeling inspired & excited to try new ideas and things.

It’s celebrated by nature based faiths as Ostara, which is the feast day on Wheel of the Year. Ostara is evolved from the of the word Eostre; and Eostre was the German goddess of Spring, the shining dawn, spring and fertility. She is known to bring joy and blessings to all who celebrate her.

Many cultures and myths associate rabbits and eggs with Ostara as symbols of fertility and re-birth, which is a common theme of Spring: baby animals are being born, trees and flowers begin to bloom, crops/gardens are being planted, etc.

Here are some ideas of some Spring Equinox rituals you can try and home with your family (full details in the slides above):

🐣1. Create a Spring Altar and decorate it with symbols of the season
🌱2. Have a Spring Clean, time to have a good clear out after the winter
🦋3. Reconnect with the earth: take a spring walk, make flower potions, plant seeds and wishes for the season
🐒4. Connect with your inner child. Play, dance and sing with your kids
💗5. Try a simple Spring Ritual together, with candles and wishes

Finally, here are a few journal prompts that you might like to consider yourself:

🌸What are your spring plans and dreams?
🌸What parts of the past months’ darkness, cold, and quiet 🌸reflection would you like to carry forward with you?
At this time of shifting balance, what would you like to change or let go?

Hope you like these ideas and that you enjoy this special time with your children and your family 🌸✨🌱🐣

Save the date: Saturday, March 16th, 19h-21.30h, for the next edition of Date Night at Shanti Vida. This month the as we approach Spring the theme is GROWTH 🌱

In this 2.5-hour circle we will be celebrating the Equinox and the perfect balance of Yin & Yang. Connect together in movement, release in a fire ritual that which no longer serves your relationship and craft a shared vision for the next 6 months with your partner.

Grow your relationship to new heights and strengths in at this conscious Date Night. Join us Jo , Nick , Samantha and other like minded others as we couple up in circle!

Price: 30€ per person for this 2.5hr ceremony
Online option and abonos available - DM for details.
All sexual orientations welcome.
Booking link in bio

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Perfect family Sunday afternoon on the beach 💛 spring is in the air and strong winds are blowing in hope and possibility 💛

This is me 36 weeks pregnant in 2010. In Arnold Circus in Shoreditch close to where I lived. The woman I was then and am now is in someways vastly different, and in other ways I remain exactly the same. I had then a sense then from my yoga training and practice that my birth and motherhood experiences would shape my life profoundly. I didn’t know then how right I would be.

I trained with during this pregnancy, which shaped the way my husband I dealt with her birth and also postnatal period. We were a team and took things in our stride no matter the challenges. Of which there were many.

I knew a lot less then than I did now, and there’s lots I’d do differently in hindsight - a wonderful thing. I have since trained with and for women in all stages of life- pregnancy, post natal with your baby, all cyclical life stages menarche, perimenopause, menopause.

One thing I truly felt then and know now is that conscious connective practices - yoga, breathwork, community - can completely determine your life and direction as a parent.

Here are some of the principals for pregnancy (from Birthlight) that I follow in my classes and have shaped all I do and am as a mum:

✨Mothering the mother. Physical and emotional nurturing of pregnant women so they can approach labour and birth with calm confidence.

✨Spirals of joy, increased joy and wellbeing during pregnancy create a feedback loop that will spiral out to the mother, child, family and wider community.

✨Ease of movement, grace, elegance and dignity through spirals and flows, simple and enjoyable. Feel beautiful!

✨ Ease and depth of breath, instinctive use of breath, expanding breathing capacity, lengthen exhale, breathing fur two.

✨Pelvic awareness, all movements come from the pelvis, mobilize and free full range of pelvic movements, pelvic floor foundational support for spine, tone and release to create the birthing passage.

✨Remember the babies, pregnancy yoga is both mum and baby together, mothers breath is baby’s oxygen, mothers movements rock baby, mothers voice is a soothing sonic massage for baby, nourish the bond of mother and child.

Have you felt the quickening in the air? Spring and the equinox is just around the corner and the world seems to be on fast forward, I keep have to remind myself to slow down. Do you feel the same?

This is the season of the resurgence of life - the time to emerge with gentle kindness from the Winter. It is a tender time of new growth, vulnerability, and innocence. Be kind to yourself 🌸

That said I have a host of events coming up this next month. Here’s all the ways you can connect with me in March:

🌸Sat March 2nd: REJOICE, a Las Divinas circle, to celebrate and liberate the voice with Laura at , Cabrils

🌸Fri March 8th: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CIRCLE for AnimaWomen at El Palace Hotel, BCN

🌸Sat March 16th: DATE NIGHT: GROWTH a conscious date night for couples to honour your relationship and vision for the future at , BCN, with and

🌸Sun March 17th: WILD DELIGHT: Spring Equinox Celebration in Nature or Families with Berta and Aina , Serralada Litoral, Cabrils

🌸 Sat March 23rd: BLOOM: Mother and Daughter Connection Circle with , Cabrils. More info to follow soon 🙏🏼

🌸 Sat March 23rd Full Moon Supper Club: a free Las Divinas social event hosted at our homes. Bring your own food to share 🤍

🌸Plus ongoing MAMA YOGA at Shanti Vida every Thursday. Mum and Baby at 12-13h and Prenatal Yoga at 17h - 18h 💗

To reserve places at any if these events see my bio for booking links 🙏🏼✨

Mama (Papa) and Baby Yoga is back at Shanti Vida

Come together in community with your little one, just as you are, to share the authentic highs and lows of parenthood in a caring, supportive and soothing environment. Enjoy joyful movement to enhance vitality plus breathwork, pelvic floor toning and stretches specific for post natal bodies with our certified teacher.

Connect deeply with your baby through songs and sweet simple stretches and finally rest together with some easeful relaxation. It’s your class, so feed, change, comfort your baby however you need and be held in the loving embrace of this class.

Contact me for further info, Jo x

✨Starting next Thursday 7th December,
Pregnancy Yoga Circle in English for any expectant Mums

✨At Shanti Vida - Conscious Concierge in the Gótico, every Thursday 17:30-18:30

✨A chance to take a breath and pause, connect with your baby and strengthen and celebrate your beautiful body.

Breathwork, movement, sharing ✨ feel free to pass on to anyone you know who might resonate with or contact me with any questions.

Thanks Jo x

RENEWAL RETREAT - A Conscious NEW YEAR Celebration

TODAY is the last day to book on the earlybird rate ✨

Join Sam (), Alice (), Jo () and other like-minded souls as we ring in the New Year of 2024 in conscious celebration. We will spend from Saturday December 30th to Monday January 1st at a gorgeous Masia, surrounded by lush gardens, on the Maresme coast, an hour north of Barcelona.

The retreat will provide plenty of time to unwind, curl up with a good book, or chat around the fire or in the sauna. We will ground ourselves in deeply restorative practices and the cosy energy of winter, slowing down as we tune into our inner worlds to reflect on the year gone by. Treasure the memories, mourn the losses, honour the wisdom gleaned as we lay 2023 to rest.

As the Sun sets on the old year for the last time bring your playful side to the fore as we explore each of our senses in celebration of life and dance into 2024 together. Awaken renewed and refreshed on January 1st, starting the new cycle with a meditation and your first cold dip of the year, in the mediterranean sea!

Program Includes:
✨Restorative & Partner Yoga
✨Meditation & Sound Healing
✨Breathwork & Cold Dips
✨Ceremony & Ritual
✨Cacao & Ecstatic Dance
✨Reflection & Intention
✨Connection to Nature’s Cycles

Open to everyone: men & women, couples & singles

Booking and full info here:https://www.moretoyoga.com/renewal-retreat-new-year-barcelona

Do you have a daughter who is blooming into a woman before your eyes? Then this unique and nourishing event is for you both. 🌸💕

Join us at the Spring Equinox in the beautiful Catalan countryside for a day retreat to celebrate with your daughter what it means to be a woman.

Includes partner yoga, meditation, sharing circle, conscious conversations, workshop on the wisdom of the body, culminating in a magical ceremony!

Sunday 19th March (option to stay on the Saturday)
Can Casadella, Premia de Dalt
125€ per person includes delicious vegetarian lunch

For Further Info and Booking 🌷
https://bit.ly/bloom_brochure_website

Sunday Morning Yoga and Brunch

March 13th, 9:30-11:30am, Cabrils

A gentle yoga circle for women to nourish, connect and restore, followed by a delicious vegetarian brunch from .magic.cooking

For more info or to reserve your place DM me ✨