Pregnancy and Postnatal mindfulness and core strength workshops

I'm excited to be adding two monthly workshops to the schedule in the new year. I'd love to hear your thoughts, and if you're in south London, come along! For mums to be Your Confident Mothermorphosis A workshop introducing a toolkit of tips to help you release anxiety and soothe your body as you enter …

How to restore your pelvic floor, in less than 3 minutes a day

One of the things that new mums tell me almost more than than anything else, is that they wish they had fully understood how important pelvic floor health was, and they wish they had taken the time to focus on it a bit before baby came - as let's face it, once baby is out …

A gratitude attitude – mindfulness and #everydayjoy

I recently recorded a podcast with the gorgeous Tamu Thomas, founder of Three Sixty and one half of the founders of Motherhood Reconstructed. I love Tamu's ethos about life: "It’s time to recognise that we are valuable and create lives where we take time to feel our value.  I believe that when we feel our …

Yoga and Mindfulness – Retreats for the mind, body, soul

I have been on a few yoga retreats in my life...and looking back, they've always been at transitional  or turbulent moments of my life. My first experience of a yoga retreat was in December 2004 in Thailand....my best friend had died 6 weeks before, and I was in the deep visceral clutches of bereavement and …

The Elastic Brain – benefits of meditation

"Mummy I never change my mind. I always keep the same mind." Maurice said this to me yesterday, when I suggested that he *might* change his mind about a sartorial decision. It made me think about the elastic brain. Up until fairly recently we thought of our minds as "fixed", set in place in our …

Model Method Online: Week 1

Week 1 of the Model Method Online - tick! It's amazing how even just a week of upping your exercise routine can start to make you feel like you're changing and energising. This week I have worked out 5 times rather than the 6 I was assigned – I skipped two evenings because I was …

Series: What’s in Your Toolkit? 13 – Nicky Clinch

Balance. Wholeness. Purpose. These are the three overarching themes which greet you when you visit Nicky Clinch's website. Comforting words in themselves, which reflect her mission as a Transformational Life Coach, Macrobiotic Nutritionist and Chef. Her Instagram feed is full of inspiration and deliciousness for heart, body and mind. She shares her wellness journey and tools …

How to create space and unclutter the mind

One of the things we most crave as mums – as modern humans – is space. When I chatted with the lovely Zoe from @motherkind_zoe for her podcast I said if I could give mums any gift in the world it would be the gift of ✨ space ✨. . ❇️ Physical space – solo …

NEOM blog: Reset the Supermum Notion

Regular readers here will know what a fan of an uplifting scent I am. Since my fully indulgent self-care gift of a yoga retreat in Ibiza with my best friend last year, where i had 4 NIGHTS OF UNINTERRUPTED SLEEP which was facilitated by a meticulous ritual of NEOM sleep sprays, balms, oils, I only …

Series: What’s in Your Toolkit? 10 – Eminé Rushton

I met the lovely Eminé last night at a Psychologies event at the Neom store on the Kings Road  – a place I would gladly while away many hours, its array of scents and general atmosphere of space and serenity are good for the soul. Eminé has an ethereal beauty about her, and a calm wisdom about …