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Forest bathing // Sound // Pregnancy + postnatal yoga // meditation. Nurturing connection & community
through nature and sound.
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01/11/2026

Which one speaks to your soul through your ears?
Is it 1, 2, 3 or 4?
Please let me know in the comments :-)

30/10/2026

The masks we wear…
Maybe it’s our job title, or being mother, daughter, wife.
Halloween and Samhain are a time when historically we have enjoyed wearing a costume or ‘guising’- adopting another identity just for a while.

In pregnancy and postpartum we often experience a fairly monumental identity shift. Yet modern living means we are surrounded online with a narrative of identities we may feel we need to adopt. For example, we may feel we need to wear the ‘masks’ of “blooming and glowing” through pregnancy, “loving every minute” of maternity leave and in postpartum bounce we have to navigate ‘bounce back’ back culture in a greatly changed body. You can see how these things truly can cause us to suffer when our personal reality behind these masks can be quite different.

This week in pregnancy and postnatal yoga this week we gently explored how this links with yogic philosophy and the teachings around Asmita, one of the 5 kleshas (interestingly described as the roots of suffering.)
Because when we begin to tie our self worth and identities to these labels or masks, we lose sight of our true inner self.

If you’re a mama in the thick of it I’d love for you to know that your overwhelm, anxiety, changed body, stretch marks and exhaustion do not define you, they are not you. Even though matrescence may crack us wide open and leave us changed in many ways. Your true inner self is always there underneath it all - the beautiful loving, kind, and intelligent person you always have been.

I see you mama. You are amazing. The spaces I hold for you are always ones where you can let those masks slip, and where we can honour each others journey in a kind, honest, supportive way 🫶💗

Beautiful words on the last slide by Jess Ulrich
📸 are my own and shared with client permission (thank you!)

I offer weekly sessions at my small studio in Brandon, Suffolk.
🤰November pregnancy yoga is currently full, there are spaces to join me in December.
👶 I have a few spaces for mums and little ones to join me for postnatal yoga in November and good availability in December

❤️

24/10/2026

Flickering flame.
Whispering wind.
Making space for the stillness within.

“May we recognise there is no such thing as finished,
as getting it all done.
May we gather with one another.
Even when we are tired and when there is too much to do.
May we make space for the sacred and for ourselves in our own lives”
Inspiring words by Molly Remer
Cute 🎃 by Mrs G’s Pumpkin Patch

The cosiest, magical evening retreat at the home studio tonight. The forest dancing in the wind outside, rain at the window. Inside, a warm fire glowing, fluffy blankets, movement, stillness, sound.

22/10/2026

Becoming a mother.
A process where everything changes. A time where you are incredibly strong and yet vulnerable all at the same moment.
This is a time in life where you deserve specialised support in a dedicated space for expectant folks.

As a mother myself (who didn’t have the smoothest journey into motherhood,) it’s such an honour to create these sessions and support other mums with movement and a sweet gentle sound bath with meditation each week. A cosy welcoming space within which you can become empowered and prepare not just for birth but for this whole process of matrescence.
Birth preparation is so much more than just movement- supporting you holistically is always my intention and goal.

Yesterday evening we also welcomed the wonderful Stacy Chaitoo Osteopath to join us to share her knowledge around supporting the body through pregnancy. Thank you Stacy for joining us and being so generous with your taster treatments 🙏

Expecting a baby and want to join us? You would be very welcome. Sessions are weekly at my private studio in Brandon. November sessions are fully booked just now but you are warmly invited to join our waiting list (cancellations are frequent at this time of year) and if you want to book for December these sessions are ready for you to book too.

21/10/2026

We rush through life.
Rarely pausing.
I know the feeling well, I’m sure you do too.
Yes there is a soft strength in the pause.

Sometimes we need sound to invite that pause.
Certain sounds seem to have the ability to stop time, to slow us down and draw us in to a soft space of listening.
This sound does that for me and I hope it does for you too.

P.s- What you see here is an emerging relationship with this instrument- we are only just getting to know each other. I’m greatly enjoying the process and thought you might enjoy the sweet sound 🎶✨

15/10/2026

These pictures tell a story about our Autumnal wellness day at High Lodge, Thetford Forest - Forestry England yesterday.

🌲We wandered deep into the forest - 2 hours to soak up every bit of mellow golden beauty and sweet wisdom Autumnal offered us. Slowing down, and tuning into what needs to be felt and acknowledged as we move from the seemingly endless summer toward the darker months. And sometimes this is emotive. But the forest holds us so beautifully through it all, just as it always does.
One reminder kept being felt and heard from the trees, perfection doesn’t equal beauty. You are unique and enough just as you are.

🎶Then after lunch, a cosy retreat into Oak Lodge for a sound meditation. Gongs, singing bowls, rainstick and chimes painting a picture in the air with sound of a story to deep Earth and soft twinkles reminiscent of our walk through the ‘fairy wonderland’ earlier in the morning of amanita muscaria dotted under the silver birch.

🫶Grateful for the wonderful clients who chose to spend the day with me in the forest, and those who joined us after lunch for the sound bath.

✨This might all sound whimsical, but forest bathing and meditation have many evidence based and well researched potential benefits for our wellbeing; from stress reduction to relief from anxiety, emotional release, boosting our immunity and helping us to sleep better.

🍁These ‘Wellness Wednesday’ sessions are offered quarterly to align with each season, dates for winter are coming soon.
In between each session, I offer regular sound meditations (sound baths) rooted and centred in nature and seasonal alignment in Thetford forest and occasional standalone forest bathing (shinrin yoku) sessions too.

Check out my Bookwhen schedule for more details or please reach out to know more.
🍁🌲🍂✨🫶🎶🍄

11/10/2026

Gather your tribe and rest in your own private sound bath.
This evening, I had the honour of hosting a private celebratory birthday sound bath at my home studio tucked away in Thetford forest.

A beautiful group of friends and colleagues arrived to be greeted with the warmth of a fire in the log burner to warm the space, padded mats, cosy blankets - everything needed to sink into a bespoke sound bath filled with the favourite instruments of our guest of honour 💗

Gently returning from the sounds to the quietude of night in the forest, hot tea, dark chocolate, homemade cake, and of course lots of laughs!

Honestly the best feeling to see friends resting and listening together. 💗💗

Thank you team The Lions’ Den Norfolk Paddle Boards and dear Shena Scholes for choosing me for your restful celebration 🫶🎶✨🌲 I know you had many other possibilities and I’m honoured to have hosted you.

Would you like to gather your loved ones and rest here in your own private sound bath? Please reach out to start a conversation.

06/10/2026

Mellow, golden October.
The clocks change this month and around that time each year I usually feel quite depleted, do you feel that too?

After a busy summer, I’ve a quieter than usual schedule as I begin this natural descent into a slower way of being through the darker months of the year.
And I warmly encourage you to do the same.
If I can help with this through a practice of yoga, sound or forest bathing then I’d dearly love that.

October carries this energy of inward retreat, and space - to naturally shed all that is no longer appropriate for this new season in our lives, and to pause so we may consciously turn towards all that will nourish us through the Autumn and Winter ahead.

And because I’m always a little behind with my monthly post and newsletter, I’ve included in this post details of the first few offerings in November. The sound bath at Brandon Country Park, Brandon on Friday 6th already has limited availability so please book on soon if you’re planning to join that session.

Warm, pumpkin spiced wishes,
Nicky 🍁✨🍂

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