Yogi Spirit with Aleesha

19/06/2026

As Gemini season comes to a close, remember that awareness is enough. You don't need to fix every pattern you've uncovered. Simply seeing it is often where the healing begins. 🌙✨

19/06/2026

18/06/2026

Meet the most consistent member of my yoga community.

This frog was won during a very serious and highly prestigious Family Silly Secret Santa a few years ago.

Since then, he's attended more yoga classes, workshops and retreats than most humans.

Fun facts:

🐸 There is actually a yoga pose called Frog Pose (Mandukasana).
It's famous for being equal parts "deeply therapeutic" and "why have I done this to myself?"

🐸 Frogs are masters of the squat.
Many humans can't comfortably squat for 30 seconds. Frogs have basically built an entire identity around it.

🐸 Frogs are symbols of transformation.
They start life as tadpoles and completely reinvent themselves. Very yoga. Very personal growth. Very "I've attended one retreat and own crystals."

🐸 Frogs know when to rest.
Some species spend months doing absolutely nothing except conserving energy. Winter yoga energy if I've ever seen it.

🐸 Frogs don't chase.
They sit, wait, and respond when the right opportunity comes along. Generator energy. Human Design people will eat this up.

🐸 A group of frogs is called an army.
Which means technically your retreat frog is leading a spiritual army.

Honestly, he's setting the standard for the rest of us.

If you've attended one of my classes, chances are you've met him.

If not, don't worry.

He's currently accepting new students.

Enquire within (see what I did there..?)

18/06/2026

Can I be honest?

This winter, I don't feel called to do more.

I feel called to slow down.

Maybe it's the season.
Maybe it's this chapter of life.
Maybe it's years of running on responsibility, pressure and overstimulation.

But lately, I've been craving stillness.

Not the kind where you earn rest after everything is done.

The kind where you stop first.

The kind where you take a breath before burnout.
The kind where you listen before your body starts demanding your attention.

And I know I'm not the only woman feeling this way.

The mothers carrying the mental load.
The women holding everyone else together.
The ones constantly moving from one responsibility to the next, wondering when they'll finally get a moment for themselves.

This is exactly why I've created my 9-Week Winter Yoga Series.

A space to exhale.
A space to soften.
A space to reconnect with yourself beneath all the roles you play.

Over 9 weeks, we'll move gently, breathe deeply and honour what winter has always invited us to do:

Slow down.
Turn inward.
Rest.
Reflect.
Ground.

No pressure.
No performance.
No expectations.

Just a room full of women remembering how to come home to themselves.

If your soul has been craving more quiet, more stillness and more space this winter, I'd love to welcome you.

DM me for details or register via my website.

17/06/2026

This is for the women who are holding everything together and are one forgotten school note away from a minor breakdown.

17/06/2026

Becoming a mum was and still is, the greatest love story of my life.

And if I'm honest, it was also the biggest identity crisis.

I didn't lose parts of myself slowly.

I lost them all at once.

One day I was Aleesha.

And the next, I was somebody's mum.

Before motherhood, I was adventurous.
Spontaneous.
A little (ok a lot) wild.
A little (ok also a lot) reckless.
Deeply independent.

I made decisions based on what I wanted.

Then suddenly, every decision carried the weight of someone else.

And while I wouldn't change it for the world, motherhood introduced a level of responsibility and anxiety that I'd never experienced before.

Even now, my mind is constantly scanning.

Is she okay?
Does she need something?
What have I forgotten?
What's next?

It's hard to relax when part of your nervous system is always on watch.

Lately, life has thrown me into another season of change.

One that's required me to step up in ways I didn't expect.

And strangely, it's forced me back into a relationship with myself.

Not just Mum Aleesha.

All of me.

The healer.
The business owner.
The woman.
The dreamer.
The wild child.
The responsible adult.

I've spent years wondering if those parts of me were competing with each other.

If the old version of me was something I needed to outgrow in order to be a good mum.

But what I'm beginning to realise is that authenticity isn't choosing one version of yourself.

It's allowing all of them to exist.

The grounded woman and the adventurous woman.

The nurturing woman and the fiercely independent woman.

The mum and the person.

Maybe the goal was never to become someone different...

Maybe it was to remember that none of those parts were ever meant to leave...

They were just waiting to be welcomed back home.

16/06/2026

What if your next act of self-development was just lying down for 10 minutes and breathing?

DM me or register online to join our Saturday class

16/06/2026

Not scrolling.
Not listening to a podcast.
Not folding washing while watching TV.
Not planning tomorrow.

Just stillness.

Because somewhere along the way, we've become uncomfortable with silence.

We fill every spare moment with noise, distraction and doing.

Yet some of the things we crave most—clarity, peace, connection, intuition—are often found in the spaces we avoid.

Stillness isn't doing nothing.

It's creating enough space to hear yourself again.

✨ I challenge you to 5 minutes a day - what happens?

15/06/2026

A lot of women come to yoga because they want to get flexible. Most stay because they realise they haven't exhaled properly since 2019.

15/06/2026

"I can't do yoga."

My favourite thing to hear.

Because yoga isn't about being good at yoga.

It's about learning how to breathe when life gets hard.
It's about moving your body.
It's about reconnecting with yourself.

If you have a body,

DM or register on the website (found in bio)