Welcome to episode 59 of The Life Right Here podcast - I’m thrilled to be back with you for a solo episode - it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I was listening to a popular podcast the other day and Kathryn May was being interviewed about burnout - she is the author of the book Wintering (which I’ve reflected on in episode 36 and I’ll link to that episode here) but she said something about going on a meditation retreat or course and it was a man running it and she decided that ma...

Welcome to episode 58 of the LRH podcast - I have a very special interview for you today with one of my teachers of Ayurveda. I had a number of personal questions to ask Katie Rose and it was so wonderful to learn more about her journey in yoga and her views on activism and the path of Bhakti yoga.Katie Rose is a yoga teacher, ayurveda guide, doula and author with over 25 years of experience in the world of wellness. Katie was the manager of the prestigious TriYoga centre in London before mov...

Welcome to Episode 57 of the life right here podcast!! I'm thrilled to welcome a very special guest to the podcast today - Charlotte Pointeaux.Charlotte is an Internationally Award-Winning Menstrual Cycle and Cyclical Business Coach and Priestess. Charlotte powerfully guides women through the profoundly transformative inner journey, of healing their connection to their menstrual cycle, and their innate wisdom and sovereign power. Through her coaching, courses, podcast and events, Charlot...

Welcome to Episode 56 of The Life Right Here.Today’s episode is inspired by my trip to Japan and particularly by a challenging part of my trip that I wanted to share with you and what I learned from it. The practice of yoga and meditation is ultimately about gaining clarity and awareness, first in the body but then in the mind and in turn this changes how we show up in the world. As a starting point for this story I want to share an idea from Jack Kornfield a meditation teacher, cli...

Welcome to episode 55 of The Life Right Here podcast. As I sat in the surf this morning I began to just run some ideas around in my head as to the topic of today’s podcast and I settled on a short episode explaining and reflecting on The 3 Gunas or qualities of nature that are the basis of the teachings of Ayurveda (and Yoga).These are at the forefront of my mind right now as I prepare for my third module of Yoga Therapy study coming up in April. And one of our pre-reading tasks is to re...

A guided practice for you (under 10 minutes) for you to connect with being content with what is - right here - as things are.This practice uses breath, contempation on the concept of Santosha - contentment - as well as affirmation to give you permission to just be...and find peace no matter what's going on around you.Take time for yourself this week to notice that life is good enough as is.Let me know how you used this practice, what came up for you or anything that you found challengin...

Hello friends welcome to episode 53 of The Life Right Here podcast. I am relieved to get this episode to you today after a shaky start to the week and it is actually the events of the past couple of days that have inspired this episode (I had another topic planned but I thought nope I want to explore this - even if it’s just for myself to work it through) but I actually think it is something that you’ll find interesting to reflect on for yourself.In this episode I recount what happened o...

Episode 52 is a short guided practice - take 10 minutes to yourself - to reconnect to your centre of personal power, your inner knowing and begin to re-prioritise what is important to you. What you want to centre your life around this year.There are a number of sources of inspiration in this practice including:Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés' work Women Who Run with the WolvesMaya Tiwari and her book Women's Power to Heal through Inner Medicine and the quote by Jack Kornfield from last episode:‘Whe...

Hello my friends and welcome to episode 51 of The Life Right Here podcast - it’s great to be back for a fresh new year in 2024.This episode is inspired by the reflections and sharing that took place last Friday evening at my Align and Shine workshop - I wanted to share a quote that I used as a point of discussion - in the context of a larger passage shared from the book Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and the quote is this:Psychically, we become used to the shocks a...

We are celebrating 50 episodes today on The Life Right Here poddy!!!And to honour this milestone Kate Reed interveiws ME.Tune in to this longer episode to hear all the inside info from my journey into yoga, my biggest challenges, how Josh and I met, to even what I was like as a teenager.Thank you to those who sent in such great questions - it was really fun reflecting and answering these and I hope you enjoy this casual chat to celebrate 50.To find out more about Kate and her work visit thesi...