Darling Yoga

Friday Feels Incoming!

Quite literally… 💆🏻‍♀️ (pun intended).

I’m looking forward to another fully booked day of massaging tomorrow. 🙃

Friday seems to be THE day for pampering, chilling and general well-being here in this little corner of South Devon.

I’m so happy to be a small part of that experience for another flurry of relaxation seeking ‘thank goodness it’s Friday’ feeling’ clients.

Morning, noon and afternoon… let’s get those rainy day blues gone ahead of some incoming weekend sunshine ☀️🤞

Appointments are available and I’m open for bookings now ahead of next week, however sadly not Friday - Saturday & Sunday only next week! ✌️

See you on the couch 🤲🏻

💫✨ 🙌

Massage Availability this week…

Wednesday and Friday

Join me at my new home away from home at in East Portlemouth.

Well worth the trip, even if just for the views, or coffee and cake in the September sunshine… the lower light levels and drop in intensity of heat is simply lush right now, I’m really trying to make the most of this month and all the beauty this month has to offer us, especially in this little nook of Devon 😊

Depending on which direction you are travelling from, you can access this beautiful location by either…
land 🚗🚲🛵…
sea 🛶⛵️🚤 …
and surely there’s a helipad somewhere nearby (I especially need this 😆) so by air too!!!🚁🪂🎈

DM or email for further details, including prices, appointment times and to book. 💆🏻‍♀️

Yoga this week…

🌄Mon 6-7pm @ HH
Flow with the seasons (women’s space)

🌅Tues 7:30-8:30am @ HH
Rise & Shine

🌅Tues 10:30-11am
Chair Yoga & Movement (zoom only)

🌄Thurs 5-5:45pm @ Modbury
Chair Yoga & Movement (in person & zoom)

🌄Frid 6-7pm @ HH
Friday Night Yoga (with Ina)

🌅Sat 8-9am @ HH
Rise & Energise - NO CLASS THIS WEEK

DM or email to pre-book 🙏🏻

But first breakfast 😋

Fuelling & preparing for my day ahead ⛽️ 🥣 🫖 with Bill Withers ‘lovely day..’ playing in the background, you just can’t write this stuff!

Oh, I just did! 🤪😂 I’m in a ‘little tinker’ of a mood today, can you tell? Must be those end of August vibes 💪🙌🫶👋 the Devon tension is starting to ease, I can feel it in my bones 🦴😊

Rise & Shine ✨

Wake up it’s a beautiful morning… there’s your ear worm 🪱 for the day! 😉😆 You’re welcome x

Commute to work this morning, stunning.
Couldn’t think of anywhere I’d rather be!

Looking forward to a fully booked day of massage 💆🏻‍♀️ today, can’t wait to welcome my lovely clients, a warm & warm, welcome awaits you. 🙃

☀️ #✨

Beautiful 😌
Grateful for these beacons of light 🫶 you know who you are… the thing is, these light beings really don’t know they are that to someone... but I do, so in that space, we rub along quietly knowingly & yet unknowingly together, and for that I am grateful 🙏🏻

There are some people in this world who are like
beacons for your lost soul
sunshine for your dark days
and bandages for your deepest wounds.

Look for them.

Find the people who pour light into the shadows they didn’t create.
The people who help heal the parts of you they didn’t break
and who shelter you from storms they didn’t summon.

Look for them.

Because there are people in your world who will do all of this. Quietly. Unassumingly. Sometimes without even realising.

Look for them. Find them. Let them.
And then do the same for them.

Because these are your people.
~ Becky Hemsley Poetry

~ Art by Julia Arnt

Garden treasures 💎

As the sun starts to wane and an incoming new season is afoot, I’m making the most of my garden beauties in all their glory, and smiling to myself as I close the door to my dusty house and walk barefoot amongst my friends before they bed down for another year and I wonder what the hell I’m going to do without them!! 😊🫣

It sure as shire won’t be house work!!!

🍂 🍁✨

Bank Holiday bliss 💛🧡

Also loving that my toenails match my breakfast! 😆

I hope everyone has had a good BH weekend 😎 next week is the last full week of August (secretly hurrah 🥳🙌🎉) roll on September, and returning to much loved rhythms.

This weeks 🧘‍♀️& 💆🏻‍♀️ schedule looks like this:

> Monday - no usual class

> Tuesday - ✨Rise & Shine Yoga .house.art.wellbeing 7:30am, come shake off the long weekend fugg!
✨Chair Yoga (zoom only class) 10:30am

Wednesday - ✨massage availability @
village_farm_cafe - bookings essential

Thursday - no usual class

Friday - no FNY usual class ✨massage FULLY BOOKED

Saturday - ✨R&E Yoga .house.art.wellbeing 8am ✨massage availability @
village_farm_cafe - bookings essential

Sunday - rest, rest, rest 💫

Have a good week all & I’ll see you on your mat or my couch 😉🙃 xx

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Getting ones ducks in a row…

I’ve really enjoyed taking a short, much needed break and being away, but my teaching mat 🧘‍♀️ and all the other things are calling me back home.

It’s time…
My ducks are waiting, so to speak…
I’m ready to get back to it…
To re establish my much loved rhythms…

My teaching mat beckons! Hallelujah 🤩

Classes re start from tomorrow 🥳 (still on a slightly lighter schedule until September) but nonetheless it’s time to get aligned and realign together, I can’t wait! 🦆🧘‍♀️🦆🧘‍♀️🦆🧘‍♀️🦆

Picture taken on my recent trip to Bath, Somerset. I just love it! Quack Quack! I mean I’m totally quackers after all! Best way to be all things considered. 🤪😉😍😆🙃

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Sunbeams!!

These girls 💝🤗💗

May the long time sun shine upon you, you’ll always have the most special place in my ♥️

BFF’s for life.

My Dad went to mum’s 21st! That’s how long that connection has been alive for 👯‍♀️. Stella & I met through dance classes at school, boy did we twirl together then & thereafter 🪩. And what can I say, we’ve had some high jinx together over the years that’s for sure! 🏝

Roll on 2025 meet up! Where next….

☀️😎

Girls weekend incoming…
🥳🥨🥰👯‍♀️🤩🥂😎💃🏻🍾🫶

Beautiful Bath Spa,
Beautiful weather,
Can’t wait to see my beautiful girlfriends!

☀️😎 ❤️

Let’s get this show on the road!!

Although it’s not a road, it’s a body of water 🌊 🚤

My new commute to ‘work’ (I mean I call it work, but I love it so much it surely can’t be bundled under that heading, surely, can it!?!)

The saying goes… ‘find something you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life!’

So now I have two loves 💕 Yoga + Massage 💞 I guess that makes me officially retired!!! 😂🥰🥳 ha ha! Get back to ‘work’ lady! Time & Tide waits for no one. 🫶

Bookings are open - let’s do this 🙌

And NO, I most definitely don’t need to, and won’t be lugging my mobile massage couch back and forth for treatments or appointments! I’m very much of a fixed abode and firmly grounded. 😉🙃

#💞 #💕

and just like that…

I finally got to rub out my “Coming Soon….”

And replace it with…

‘The Eagle Has Landed’ 🛬 🦅

Well, I didn’t actually write that in its place obvs 🙄, too much, too weird and too off topic! But land I have 🙌🤘✌️

And what a place to land ☺️😍 💎 one of Devon’s finest hidden gems, but not hidden for long!

The word is out, and coming they are.
With sandy toes, hungry tummies, inquisitive minds, smiling faces, open hearts and sunny dispositions.

I’m so happy to be here - a side-hustle member of this AMAZING team 💪 a tour de force, with passion, people, community, creativity & laid back excellence at their epicentre, you are guaranteed a very warm, heartfelt welcome 💞

Thank you to all for your patience, support and warmth in welcoming me to your beautiful and inspiring space, it feels like home, long may we rub along happily together!!

Pun intended! 😉😆 Massage Therapists, you really need try one to know one! 😂

❤️

a.m vs p.m ☯️

When you live by the coast sometimes you have to wait allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll day for the sun to materialise.

However when it does, it’s so worth the wait! 😎☀️
Plus all the boring domestic chores get done in that otherwise idle place of waiting 💁🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️

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It’s that time…

Time to rest…
Time to take stock…
Time to reflect…
Time for myself…
Time to say no…
Time to protect my energy… and top it up!
Time to put my boundaries in place…
Time to flip the ‘open’ sign to ‘back soon’
Time to stop 🛑

My last class for a couple of weeks will be this Saturday, 10 August 2024 8-9am .house.art.wellbeing

Thereafter the out of office is going on, I’m unplugging from the main frame, and slipping into the shadows to dance and be free to be! (well that’s the intention at least 😬).

Thanks to all of my lovely, supportive and caring students for understanding I need this space and me time, the summer is reaching its peak and so am I, its my turn now, and it’s my time now….

Consider it an act of self love, self preservation… self care is not selfish, it’s necessary and it’s time!

See you on the other side ✌️☯️

When I return my reduced summer schedule is in place:

Saturday class resumes on Sat 24 August
Tuesday class on Tues 27 August
Monday, Thursday & Friday classes resume in September 🧘‍♀️🙏💫

Have a lovely summer x

Last run of 21!! 🏃🏻‍♀️🌅💪

In fact I have done way more loops around the sun 💫 but I’m not counting, I’m just feeling!

Mostly feeling dizzy! 🤪

Cartwheeling 🤸‍♀️ across a field mid run is a great way of measuring, and ‘not’ feeling your age.
Staggering around from dizziness at the end of 3 in a row and laughing your head off, is a great way of measuring your ability to not give a f**k about what people think one should be doing at any age!

If it makes you happy, do it!
If it makes you puke up in a bucket, perhaps don’t do it!!

The important bit is to not give too much of a dam towards a world wanting to shove us in boxes and be sensible when we hit a certain age in life - seriously where’s the fun in that!
I don’t have time for boxes, (unless I’m standing on one to reach the top shelf or make my musings 🤔😁) and besides, I’ve got some serious cartwheel practicing to do to off set not only the dizziness (practice makes progress) but also to offset the craziness in this all too messed up world just now.

I wish more people were cartwheeling and sharing their smiles and laughter right now, instead of stirring up s**t and hatred, it’s a sorry state of affairs, for sure.

Here’s to more peaceful times ☮️ and here’s to another loop around the sun ☀️ I’m running (and cartwheeling) hop, skip and jumping at you…. 💃🏻🥳✌️😎🥂🤸‍♀️

❤️

12 is the magic number!

Actually if we’re really talking magic numbers then it’s of course 3! (Isn’t that right 😉🙌)

Anyho…. no I haven’t had too much champagne 🥂 and yes I can still count 😉
12 students and 3 Tutors = a magical gathering no less 💫

When the forces of nature come together to learn and teach, the only outcome is they all grow!🌳

Class of 2023/24 👩🏻‍🎓🙅🏻‍♀️ we did it!

>Thanks to this👆lovely lot 🤝
>Thanks to you ✊ lovely lot 🤝
>And especially to the ones that have kindly donated their bodies to ‘Sophie Science’👩🏻‍🔬over the last 8 months 🫶
>And special last but not least thanks to the unsung hero’s in the wings who put up with all the stress that comes from living or working with someone who’s studying 📚 sometimes it ain’t pretty 🫣🤫🤗

❤️ #🌳

Opens email immediately!!!!!

When you receive a message from your tutor…. 🥁🥁🥁

and she informs you…. 🫣🫣🫣

That staying up until 2am was worth the effort to submit your theory exam work!

Practical Exam: DISTINCTION!
Theory Exam: DISTINCTION!

Kinda lost for words 😱🤯😭 but mostly 🥹🥳☺️😍 and a whole-lotta 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

Woooooooooooooo hoooooooooooo!!!!

Stand by your beds 🛏 folks….. aka my massage bed…… I’ll be open for seriously blissed out business from next week!!! 💆🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️

Details coming soon! When I’ve had a little lie down 😉☺️ xx

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Far from the madding crowd…

My favourite place to be, the further away the better at this time of year in Devon.

1st August tomorrow folks 🫣😱
Stand by yer beds and get ready to brace yourselves homies 🤪😂😬

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It’s a new dawn it’s a new day…..

Fill in the blanks? 🤔 _ _ _ _

Well, good comes to mind, but I wouldn’t flex the truth that far, although I was relieved to be feeling slightly better than anticipated….

Crawling to bed as a (mature) student at 2:20am on a school night and waking up at sunrise is no longer my idea of fun 😵‍💫🧟‍♀️🫣

I wish I could say I was out on the town, but these days I have different priorities, although if I’d been stricter with my study plan I wouldn’t have been still uploading course work at 2am to meet a deadline! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️💆🏻‍♀️

Self advancement sure as s**t asks a lot from us, especially when you’re trying to keep all the other plates spinning at the same time. Hey ho, I keep telling myself it’ll all be worth it in the end! 🤞🫶✌️

What can I say… I’m a dedicated student 👩🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍💻 hmmmm… more like a flippin’ perfectionist!!!! 🙄🤯

A friend likes to remind me ‘live long and prosper’ 🖖 here’s hoping 🤞


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FAMILY! 💝

I could literally dump every facial expression emoji here!

Can you relate!?!?

But most of all this one: 🤪 because that sums us up!

And this one: 🥳 because life’s a party when you collectively share 219 years, AND you can each independently climb to the top of a castle turret, unassisted and still smile when you get there, safe in the knowledge that you can climb right back down again and live to fight another day!!!!!!!!!!!

Mum & Dad you are f@% EPIC!!!!! and I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

Channelling happy every day 😚☺️ because life as a ‘Darling’ is never dull when we get together! 🥳🤩😎😂

#🤪 #🤪❤️

Time flies when your dancing 💃🏻

This time last week I was getting my fancy feet 👣 ready to dance 🪩
Well, when I say dance, I mean not with my feet but with my hands 🙌 🤔

MFR training, aka Myofascial Release Massage Techniques - pretty mind blowing.

One day I’ll make it to the ballroom for dancing🤞😆

In the meantime the ‘ballroom’ sign just means that I’m in the right place for - low lights, no cameras and action!

Saturdays are for further training, development and getting into student mode again. Rolling up my sleeves and diving into some hands on work. 💆🏻‍♀️😍👩‍🎓

Great to be in the city again and connecting with my amazing Tutors, and meeting some fellow eager beaver learners.

I’m almost at the last hurdle of my training 🤞it’s been a lot, A LOT, a lot! My brain is completely frazzled but my hands are whole heartedly ready, and full of Prana and positive energy to get going into this new side hustle 💝

Roses and toses… 🌹👣

Oh my! Happy July!

How exquisite are these roses, total gift from Mother Nature 😍 and home grown 😱 Wowzers!
Something the slugs actually left alone! 🤨💪🤝🙌🙏🏻

Toes are a gift from another mother 😉 and kinda home grown 😆 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇫🇷…the slugs defo aren’t interested in these little beauties 🤪

Signing off with a song 🎶 this one obvs 💃🏻🕺🏻 hit it Gene…

‘Moses supposes his toeses are Roses,
But Moses supposes Erroneously,
Moses he knowses his toeses aren’t roses,
As Moses supposes his toeses to be!
Moses supposes his toeses are Roses,
But Moses supposes Erroneously,
A mose is a mose!
A rose is a rose!
A toes a toes!…….’

🌹

Absolutely stunning! 💛🧡

Last nights sunset…. super still, clear, warm, beautiful. Devon Heaven springs to mind.

Didn’t manage to catch a snap of the springy hare 🐇 which was hoping along the lane looking for its exit point into the long wheat fields 🌾 what a lovely moment, felt very privileged to pull over and witness that whilst watching the sun settle down for the evening.

Perfect finale, at the end of a hot, long, productive day working on my new venture! Ekk! Details coming soon…. 😍☺️🫣🤫

Musical Statues anyone… ☺️🗽😆

My brother knows how to make me jealous! 😏😔

Beam me up Scottie! I could use some of that expansiveness and not a soul around for miles… I bet those stones could tell a few stories, I’d love to sit with them for a while and soak up their ancient wisdom…. bliss.

📍 Bryn Cader Faner, these stones have been dated to 3000 years old. 😯😍

#🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Rise & Shine ✨

Ominous skies for beach Yoga this morning!?!?

The show must go on as they say 🎭

Keep calm and carry on… 🤞 I’ll be honest the forecast was looking sketchy last night, however we’ve had this date in our diary for months now, so assemble we did!

A bit cloudy, a bit breezy, a smidge of blue sky and sunshine here and there, then a tiny bit of drizzle right at the very end, just enough to refresh the senses post savasana. ☺️😬

A beautiful way to start the day. 🙏🏻

My third year teaching these lovely ladies for a private pop up session, for them it’s a way to slowly unwind and wobble (have you tried balancing in Tree Pose on a beach 🏝😁) into their girls weekend together….. and relax. 😴

Until next year… come rain or shine, keep clam and carry on.

📷 permission given by the group for this photograph - encouraged in fact, happy memories of 2024 for them to take away and look back on.

🌊 ☀️ ✌️

Strawberry Kisses…🍓😘

I’m hoping there’ll be enough to go around… strawberries! 🤞

Despite elevating these 3 pots last night ahead of the rain & incoming slug & snail invasion, something has already had a little munch 😞

Dam! I was saving that one for my breakfast! 🙄

The great thing about growing some things in pots is one can simply move them around, tonight these bad boys are moving inside the house!! 😆😋

🍓 ❤️

Here’s hoping… 🤞

Powered by tea 🫖
Satisfied by anticipation 👩🏻‍🌾
Sustained by joy 💓

More, more, more…

How do you like it, how do you like it 🎵🎶

More from beautiful Delamore, that’s how I like it!

Keep swiping through, I saved one of my favourites until last 💙💚❤️

Until next year mon amour (aka love note to self)… it’s a date. 🗓

What a beauty! 💛❤️💚

Can’t take the credit for growing this beautiful specimen & even if I wanted one, there’s barely an inch of space left I’m my garden for it!

June is here… and the garden is romping away like a love story for the soul. 🥰

My word for the turn of the year 23 to 24 was ‘abundance’ turns out some manifestations do indeed come true! ☺️

📍📷 snapped on a late May, day out at Delamore, have you been? It was stunning. Top of my agenda for next May, they are only open to the public once a year.