Be Still And Notice: A Yoga Podcast

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In this episode I share some of the shadow work that I am undertaking right now. Shadow work embraces the darker aspects of ourselves that all too often we choose to suppress, ignore, push down or avoid entirely. This can be for all sorts of reasons: Out of fear, ignorance, lack of capacity, shame, guilt or avoidance. For some it may just feel too painful to begin to explore these shadowy places. It can be just too scary, too consuming, too much.

There are amny ways to explore the dark within ourselves, through our practice, with therapists, spiritual guides, plant medicine and so much more. It is important to have support, to have a guide. 

It can be the most challenging thing we will ever undertake, but, if we can walk through that dark doorway, there is a wealth of treasure waiting for us on the other side.

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If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: [email protected]

You can follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shraddhaya_yoga/

Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

With love and light,

Helen xxx

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I did a thing earlier this week. I booked my place on a trip walking part of The Camino from Portugal to Spain, a journey of 156km. This trip is happening next year with the amazing Tamara (Cuchira) Levinson. She walked this same walk only a few weeks ago and I was glued to her stories as she made her pilgrimage. I couldn’t wait to have her back on the podcast to hear all about her journey. 

This is a high energy conversation as we talk about Tamara’s experiences on a spiritual, physical and intellectual level, and how feats of endurance like this can show us just how strong we are and prepare us and make us more resilient when life happens. You can probably feel the excitement between us as we talk it all through! I really hope you enjoy this one.

To join Cuchira on her Roots To Wings Pilgrimage next year or find out more information click the link below: 

https://www.beyond-narrative.com/6fce985d-ccee-4e02-9538-b63b976f77cc?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZnRzaAUrONpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAmZkaWQWUPdCe1HAGt3sL69lYv7hb6R6B9sMjHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp-udV-YHeR-guXYmaDtQMEMzWsFF35mHuhoY145THqihZObOMVZ4EJPjNC0H_aem_5V7Zz9mKwjzudb-vnZFQIw

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And use the code BESTILL10 to get 10 percent off your next purchase. This code can be stacked with other live promos so head on over there!

If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: [email protected]

You can follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shraddhaya_yoga/

Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

With love and light,

Helen xxx

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Hi everyone and welcome to Season 3, episode 10 of the podcast. This episode is FULL. Full of a lot of wisdom, learning and lived experience. Daniel Zavrel is one of those immediately likeable, kind and warm people with a kind of non-egoic intelligence that blows my mind. I loved talking to him and I really hope you enjoy our conversation.

Daniel Zavrel is the founder of Consciouz and creator of ConsciouzScan, an integrative approach designed to help people gain deeper insight into the connection between their body, mind, emotions, lifestyle and overall wellbeing.
For more than 30 years, Daniel has worked in the field of health, wellbeing, stress regulation, personal development and human performance. Throughout his career, he has trained and coached thousands of people and worked with organisations including Accenture, PwC, Philips, Unilever, Achmea, ASR and many others. He has also worked in professional football as a mental coach,
contributing to championship-winning teams at PSV Eindhoven and AZ Alkmaar.
At the heart of Daniel’s work is the belief that sustainable wellbeing begins with awareness. 

Rather than looking only at symptoms or isolated parts of a person, he is passionate about exploring the human being as an interconnected system.
This philosophy led him to develop ConsciouzScan, which combines advanced scanning technology with coaching and a holistic interpretation of physical, mental and lifestyle-related patterns. The scan can provide insights into areas such as stress and nervous-system balance, energy, recovery, nutrition, emotional wellbeing and other factors that may influence how a person feels and functions.

 These insights are then used as a starting point for greater awareness, personalised coaching and sustainable change.
Daniel’s approach is also deeply influenced by more than 25 years of experience with yoga and contemplative practices. He is a trained Iyengar Yoga teacher, Mindfulness trainer and HeartMath heart-coherence coach and trainer. His professional background also includes NLP, life coaching and a broad range of approaches to personal transformation, resilience and consciousness.
For Daniel, yoga, mindfulness, heart coherence and ConsciouzScan are not separate disciplines. They all point towards the same fundamental question: how can we become more aware of what is happening within us, restore balance and live with greater consciousness?
Today, Daniel trains a growing international community of ConsciouzScan coaches, works with individual clients and organisations, and speaks and teaches about wellbeing, stress, resilience, consciousness and the body-mind connection.
Alongside his professional work, Daniel is a father of seven and continues to integrate yoga, meditation and spiritual practice into his own daily life.
His wider mission through Consciouz is to contribute to global wellbeing by helping people understand themselves more deeply and make more conscious choices about the way they live, work and care for themselves.

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Shakti make weird and wonderful spiky accupressure mats that I LOVE. I use mine every night to help ease tension in my muscles, help me unwind and relax for a beautiful nights sleep.

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And use the code BESTILL10 to get 10 percent off your next purchase. This code can be stacked with other live promos so head on over there!

If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: [email protected]

You can follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shraddhaya_yoga/

Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

With love and light,

Helen xxx

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Hello my friends, and welcome back to the podcast. In this episode I tell the story of the yoga class in California that really missed the mark for me, and how we can make our classes, and our personal practices more soulful. 

This episode is proudly brought to you by Shakti.

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If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

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You can follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shraddhaya_yoga/

Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

With love and light,

Helen xxx

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In this episode I talk all about my baby, not an ACTUAL baby but my Yoga Programme, Hold Yourself, a 12 week 1:1 online programme designed to help women who suffer from chronic anxiety, feelings of unworthiness, over thinking, anxious attachment and so much more.

The first round of Hold Yourself is nearly over and I've been blown away by some of the incredible results these women have achieved: Lower blood pressure, sleeping better, feeling calmer and less reactive, finally feeling in touch with their bodies. Beginning to love themselves, finally giving themselves permission to rest and put themselves first. Feeling stronger, more resilient, braver, bolder.

This isn't a cure all programme, but a deep dive into yourself. A reclamation of your own sense of self, the true self that is confident, at peace and at ease. This is a reclamation of the woman who knows her worth, stands strongly on her own two feet and knows she can weather the storms that life throws at her.

Developed from all the yoga practices I have learned over the years and from my own, very personal experience, this is a programme for women who want to feel joy, ease and freedom again. Who want to connect to their bodies innate wisdom, who want to be able to confidently live according to their own inner voice. 

The next round of Hold Yourself is opening in the autumn. There are only a handful of places, as this is a high touch 1:1 programme. Its not for everyone and that's ok. if its for you we will know on the first discovery call. If any of this resonates with you and if you feel called, please do get in touch. I'll also be offering all of my listeners an exclusive discount. My details are below. Please watch this space or subscribe to my website to be the first to hear when the doors open.

Shakti make weird and wonderful spiky accupressure mats that I LOVE. I use mine every night to help ease tension in my muscles, help me unwind and relax for a beautiful nights sleep.

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And use the code BESTILL10 to get 10 percent off your next purchase. This code can be stacked with other live promos so head on over there!

If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: [email protected]

You can follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shraddhaya_yoga/

Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

With love and light,

Helen xxx

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This is a conversation FULL of healing modalities. This is a conversation that shows just how exploring one practice can lead to many, many more. 

Lara J. Day is an author, movement educator, and someone who has spent more than three decades helping people reconnect with the intelligence of the body, the rhythms of nature, and the deeper meaning beneath ritual.

Her primary focus, centres on the tangled, often hidden history of our holidays and the urgent need to reclaim them. She is the author and creator of The 13 Sacred Nights Oracle, a non-denominational Winter Solstice practice published by Beyond Words. Her research into the spiritual, mythic, and historical roots of our holiday traditions revealed how our rituals have been repeatedly reshaped to influence the behavior of the masses. Her mission is simple and bold: to return the Soul to the Solstice, and the "holy" to all of our holidays.

The 13 Sacred Nights Oracle is a 52-card deck and guidebook that creates a 13-day Solstice practice beginning on December 21st, with each night corresponding to a month of the coming year. It's designed to help people slow down, reflect, receive guidance, and set meaningful intentions from a place of stillness rather than frenzy. A direct and meaningful alternative to the revolving door of shopping, sugar, and alcohol that our holidays have become.

She is also the founder of Neurogenic Qigong, a healing modality that blends Chinese energy medicine with tension and trauma-releasing tremor work. This somatic practice supports nervous system regulation and helps people reconnect with their own inner intelligence, which she finds is often exactly what's needed before someone can truly receive the gifts of a ritual practice.

You can buy The 13 Sacred Nights Oracle Deck on Amazon Here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Nights-Oracle-Tradition-Guidebook/dp/1582708843

And find out more about her offerings and how to work with her here:

www.larajday.com

Shakti make weird and wonderful spiky accupressure mats that I LOVE. I use mine every night to help ease tension in my muscles, help me unwind and relax for a beautiful nights sleep.

To receive an extra 10 percent off your purchase go to: https://www.shaktimat.co.uk/?tw_source=google&tw_adid=484786740659&tw_campaign=2061306682&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=2061306682&gbraid=0AAAAACtNbt2BoeYy4aeFhe7Z3A1YfnjgU&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsYDQw73ulgMVGIuDBx0RADNuEAAYASAAEgJSaPD_BwE

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If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: [email protected]

You can follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shraddhaya_yoga/

Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

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Helen xxx

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Hi everyone,

Its been a few weeks since I've released an episode, I've been soo busy behind the scenes, and life is beautiful and full.

This is a little personal episode from me, recorded on a sunday evening fresh from a lovely sauna by the lake with a friend, and still buzzing from our beautiful community Kirtan last night. Its a few thoughts about turning 45, about beauty in lifes everyday moments, about home, about devotion. Its a gentle sunday evening muse on life. As aways, I hope you enjoy.

Shakti make weird and wonderful spiky accupressure mats that I LOVE. I use mine every night to help ease tension in my muscles, help me unwind and relax for a beautiful nights sleep.

To receive an extra 10 percent off your purchase go to: https://www.shaktimat.co.uk/?tw_source=google&tw_adid=484786740659&tw_campaign=2061306682&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=2061306682&gbraid=0AAAAACtNbt2BoeYy4aeFhe7Z3A1YfnjgU&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsYDQw73ulgMVGIuDBx0RADNuEAAYASAAEgJSaPD_BwE

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If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

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Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

With love and light,

Helen xxx

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I am so happy to have recently connected with Caroline on a business course we are both enrolled in. Caroline has a gentle yet strong presence and is an Adaptive and Restorative Yoga Teacher, a Physical Therapist Assistant and a Thai Massage Therapist. She specialises in working with people with severe disabilities such as quadraplegics, people recovering from strokes and seniors with mobility issues.

Caroline uses a blend of all of her trainings to help make yoga acessible for EVERYONE, and there is no one she cant help practice yoga. We talk all about her work, her trainings and how she helps people of all abilities gain the benefits of yoga.

Caroline is currently splitting her life between Corsica and Thailand and holds beautiful retreats in Bali and Europe throughout the year.

Her bio and how to contact and work with her are below.

I hope you enjoy the episode.

Caroline is a physical therapist assistant and yoga teacher with a decade of experience helping people heal through accessible yoga & movement.

Her love of yoga bloomed because of the physical and mental benefits she experienced. The way it helped her manage stress and anxiety through university was so meaningful that in 2016 she decided to dive deeper, completing a 450-hour Yoga Teacher Training.In this training, she discovered Yoga Therapy, which led her down many paths, exploring styles like Restorative Yoga, Adaptive Yoga, and Thai Yoga Massage. 

She became a Physical Therapist Assistant in 2022 to learn more about physical therapy, anatomy, health conditions, and healing through movement.

Some of Caroline's students live with full paralysis from spinal cord injuries, partial paralysis from brain injuries, various neurological conditions, and orthopedic issues. She always finds a way to bring the practice to the person, tailoring it individually to their goals and intentions while understanding the complexity of their medical history. 

She started Accessible Yoga Practices in 2018, an online community for older adults and people with injuries or disabilities, sharing ways yoga can be accessible and inclusive for anyone. She works with people online through 1:1 sessions, small groups, and courses on Therapeutic Yoga.

Born in the USA, Caroline currently splits her time between Ajaccio, Corsica and Chiang Mai, Thailand, working online and leading international yoga retreats for wellness practitioners. You can learn more about her and her offerings at www.accessibleyogapractices.com, or follow her on Facebook or Instagram @accessible.yoga.practices.

Shakti make weird and wonderful spiky accupressure mats that I LOVE. I use mine every night to help ease tension in my muscles, help me unwind and relax for a beautiful nights sleep.

To receive an extra 10 percent off your purchase go to: https://www.shaktimat.co.uk/?tw_source=google&tw_adid=484786740659&tw_campaign=2061306682&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=2061306682&gbraid=0AAAAACtNbt2BoeYy4aeFhe7Z3A1YfnjgU&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsYDQw73ulgMVGIuDBx0RADNuEAAYASAAEgJSaPD_BwE

And use the code BESTILL10 to get 10 percent off your next purchase. This code can be stacked with other live promos so head on over there!

If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: [email protected]

You can follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shraddhaya_yoga/

Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

With love and light,

Helen xxx

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In this episode I get a little spicy, contentious even. This one is all about were we can begin to take radical responsibility for how we live, the energy we bring, the interactions we have, the choices we make. You might not like what I have to say, but its true-in the end it starts and finishes with us. I hope you enjoy the episode.

Shakti make weird and wonderful spiky accupressure mats that I LOVE. I use mine every night to help ease tension in my muscles, help me unwind and relax for a beautiful nights sleep.

To receive an extra 10 percent off your purchase go to: https://www.shaktimat.co.uk/?tw_source=google&tw_adid=484786740659&tw_campaign=2061306682&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=2061306682&gbraid=0AAAAACtNbt2BoeYy4aeFhe7Z3A1YfnjgU&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsYDQw73ulgMVGIuDBx0RADNuEAAYASAAEgJSaPD_BwE

And use the code BESTILL10 to get 10 percent off your next purchase. This code can be stacked with other live promos so head on over there!

If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: [email protected]

You can follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shraddhaya_yoga/

Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

With love and light,

Helen xxx

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This is one of my top converstaions so far. 

Tamara aka Cuchira is a one of a kind person who's work is so original and so NEEDED at this time. Our conversation begins with her childhood as an olympic gymnast, her career as a professional dancer and choreographer working with the likes of Madonna, to what she really values the most which is her work helping bring people back to the core of who they really are as human beings. We talk about life and death and her husbands Rubens miraculous recovery after a sudden life threatening illness, and practical ways in which we can all begin to listen to the body more, to help us regulate, heal and grow.

I felt so expanded and on such a beautiful high after this conversation for days on end, its conversations like this that I started this podcast for. There are many ways to work with Tamara online and in person and she has a beautiful retreat in Mexico coming up in November, please scroll down to the bottom for all the links and contact info.

Tamara's Bio:

 Tamara “Cuchira” Levinson

It all began in 1976, when Tamara was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to loving, extraordinary parents who made space for her artistry and expression to unfold without interference, only support. This is where the work was first born. Her earliest memory is at age five, alone in her room, moving, sounding, expressing the ancestral pain she carried into this world through her body, along with any residual energies she absorbed. For young Tamara, somatic therapy had no name, nor had she been taught to do it, it was innate. And because there was no conditioning that shamed her for this instinctive release, she continued throughout her entire life, now 50 years in. It became her life’s work. Not from a book or a school, but from the classroom of life.

This explains much of Tamara’s accomplishments; all born from passion, raw talent, and an unmatched discipline learned from her immigrant parents, determined to create a comfortable life for their family in the United States of America.

At fifteen, the American dream materialized when she qualified for the 1992 Olympic Games in rhythmic gymnastics. Tamara still holds the American record for the highest placement ever achieved in a non‑boycotted World Championships or Olympic Games. After a successful athletic career, she retired at nineteen and moved to New York City to become a professional dancer.

This was a new world in every way; from how her body was trained to move, to finally having the chance to discover herself as a human being. Dance opened her mind to how movement could become the paintbrush of her internal world. And New York City gave her the freedom to explore herself without rules or expectations. Immersed in the vogue and underground dance scene of the 1990s, Tamara was breathing the artistry and raw expression she had channeled as that five‑year‑old wilding out in her room.

That energy manifested into dancing alongside Madonna on three world tours, and with pop artists such as Avril Lavigne, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Ricky Martin, and more. She helped create a Broadway show based on Bob Dylan’s music with the legendary Twyla Tharp, curated performance art pieces throughout the city, and eventually felt her Argentine roots rise again when off‑Broadway called. She joined the immersive, aerial, avant‑garde theatre group ‘De La Guarda’ and ‘Fuerzabruta’, where she scaled walls to strobe lighting and rave music, bungee-jumped off ceiling rafters, body‑slammed and slid wildly across a massive mylar pool suspended above the audience’s heads. One could say Tamara lived it all without apology.

She later spent time in Los Angeles, expanding her dance and choreography career into television, stage, music videos, and film; including choreographing the aerial scenes with Zendaya and Hugh Jackman in ‘The Greatest Showman’.

Yet even with a dream résumé, something was missing; that five‑year‑old who longed for primitive, raw emotional expression. This led her to begin teaching dance from an emotive point of view. But it wasn’t as simple as asking dancers to retreat from choreography and feel; that felt too frightening for many. So she entered through YogaDance: a creation born during her yoga teacher training, when she was asked to design a sequence. When she demonstrated it, she was told she couldn’t connect two postures with such creative, flowing transitions. YogaDance took off, and Tamara taught it at festivals and studios around the world.

Naturally, it evolved into what later became MovMEANT; long before somatic therapy was widely known, when people called her “the crazy dancing lady.” They arrived curious and left transformed. That shift became the trajectory in MovMEANT: somatic activation classes that inspired aliveness. But in time, Tamara noticed that the lack of integration left her students feeling abandoned after ‘getting somatically high’ of the classes. And by then, she had been working through her own wounds and traumas, just as she had as a little girl, calling something from deep within. She knew, something deeper was calling. As usual, she followed her instincts without hesitation.

Thus, a private practice emerged from her students’ need to integrate the deep work done in her classes. And again, the work deepened : beyond body, beyond narrative — into the realms of trauma work, emotional intelligence, shadow work, life‑doula guidance, and somatic philosophy.

Not much has changed from the five‑year‑old channeling ancient, primitive energy in her bedroom, to the adult who now guides people toward that same source. The only difference is that now she has words for it. What makes Tamara’s work unique among somatic therapy or shadow‑work modalities is that it is not a method or a system — it is a God‑given talent she came to earth with, to help people free themselves and honor their authentic self. To help them realize that each person carries an innate gift longing to be seen and shared in this lifetime. Her work gives space to the rawness of humanity. The parts of us that don’t need to be educated and tamed, but released into the wild.

Tamara, also known as Cuchira (her superhero name), offers retreats, online classes, an anger course coming soon, and 1:1 sessions online or in person if you can make your way to Portugal, where she now resides.

website:  https://www.beyond-narrative.com

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/cuchira

Retreat Yelapa: https://2026retreat.beyond-narrative.com

Email: [email protected] 

What’s app Group:https://chat.whatsapp.com/D8aEhdFd40b7LkkUzC01er

Shakti make weird and wonderful spiky accupressure mats that I LOVE. I use mine every night to help ease tension in my muscles, help me unwind and relax for a beautiful nights sleep.

To receive an extra 10 percent off your purchase go to: https://www.shaktimat.co.uk/?tw_source=google&tw_adid=484786740659&tw_campaign=2061306682&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=2061306682&gbraid=0AAAAACtNbt2BoeYy4aeFhe7Z3A1YfnjgU&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsYDQw73ulgMVGIuDBx0RADNuEAAYASAAEgJSaPD_BwE

And use the code BESTILL10 to get 10 percent off your next purchase. This code can be stacked with other live promos so head on over there!

If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you.

Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: [email protected]

You can follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shraddhaya_yoga/

Or why not find out how we can work together with Yoga & meditation classes, courses and 1:1 coaching here: https://www.shraddhayayoga.co.uk/

With love and light,

Helen xxx