Oceanlight Yoga - The Practice of Gentle Undoing

04/09/2026

BIG SHARE: It’s been 5 years since I was here, regenerating after chemo-free recovery from ovarian cancer.

I was still in shock. 18 months out from a diagnosis that turned my world upside down and inside out.

“Here” is a 7 day fasting programme where I’ll be eliminating
toxic waste from my body, clearing up any rogue cells, generating new stem cells and invigorating the immune system*.

I’m eager and a little afraid.

Rejecting chemo isn’t for the feint of heart and nor is this. I’ve been preparing for 6 weeks and will be reintegrating for a similar time.

It’s also a pilgrimage. As physical waste is removed, buried emotions often surface. Until you begin you don’t know what’s in there!

A pilgrimage home to the deepest parts of me and also in honour of my darling friend Nicola whose life ended with a more brutal form of this cancer.

So here I go, for Nic and for me. Boosting the life still here. Wish me luck 🍀 and please if you have unusual abdominal bloating or pain, an extra urgency when you need to p*e and perhaps an ache in your lower back (which can be a tumour pressing on nerves) then go get it checked out.

I was one of the lucky 3.5/10 who made it to the other side ✨😢✨

*these are the research evidenced benefits of prolonged fasting and why I made a commitment to myself to return. Not recommended for everyone and definitely best undertaken in a supervised setting with experienced facilitators.
Thank you for holding such carefully tended space

27/08/2026

Thanks to each one of you who came to my woodland spa retreat. What a glorious melding of movement and stillness; talking, laughing, resting and quiet.

Sharing important conversations and moments:
* finding joy as we age
* cultivating friendships that support us (and reducing those that don’t)
* being kind to the body and what that actually means at this stage of life
* breathing gently with our hearts and daring greatly with our choices

As women in our later chapters, this retreat was a reminder to fully embrace all those parts of us that get squeezed to the edges; to bring them back into the sunlight and give them space. To know in our bones that we still matter, that we have so much more to give, receive and experience. Life is here now.

12/08/2026

How was your solar eclipse? Mine began with a Red Admiral butterfly...

As I settled onto a quiet outcrop overlooking the sea, a Red Admiral came to rest on the rock beside me.

Around fifteen minutes before the deepest part of the moon’s journey across the sun, my beautiful friend gently closed her wings.

And there she stayed.

Through the dimming of the light.
Through the stillness and strangeness of that suspended moment.
Beside me, yet entirely settled in her own experience.

Sometimes connection arrives in ways we could never plan. We only need to become still enough to notice.

A tiny wild creature and a human being, sharing a rock at the edge of the land as day was suspended and then returned.

We rested peacefully together until the light filtered back into brightness and her wings carried her away.

Afterwards, floating in the sea beneath the evening sky, I was struck as much by the quiet wonder of my butterfly friend as by the movement of the heavens. Life close by, in its smallest detail, felt every bit as profound as that mesmeric alignment in the sky.

31/07/2026

Thank you, body for getting up so early. Into the still of the day, the tingling wonder of cool sparkling water, near silence, before the frenzy and woosh of school holiday crowds. A slow immersion, time floating. Returned to weightlessness where spirit speaks and mind drops away…

29/07/2026

Do you know presence? Is it something you practice yourself? The ability to sit like the wild oak, steady alongside the rippling unpredictable eddies of life. To hold ground when others have lost theirs. To know so deep in your heart what suffering is and yet be open to the joy that arises when you stop holding, when you exhale… to arrive right into this moment just as it is.

For me to hold space that allows others to truly unravel, to be safe enough to utterly let go in body, mind and soul requires a total dedication.

To be present to myself, to lean into the places of tenderness and pain. To actively seek quiet, especially in the busyness of summer.

To slow down, find the ground of my own being, breathe. To feel and yet not lose myself to feeling.

It is endlessly fascinating, challenging, wisening. A relationship with Life. Last night at the river and this morning at the cove the moving water stilled me. The trees held ground. The rocks observed. I wonder where you go to return to yourself…

15/07/2026

While people huddled round tv’s I just couldn’t help but be drawn by the sun and the promise of golden waves. The beach (almost) to myself. I met another wanderer seeking out a sacred ending to an ordinary day. She was born here, she said, and it always feels like coming home. We shared a knowing smile as sunbeams danced on our salty skin and the ocean soothed our limbs and minds. Choosing peace. Choosing connection. Letting time drift for just a while…

30/06/2026

If you know me you probably already know my love of water, fire, sacred land, saunas and sunsets… big night skies, heartfelt conversations and finding precious places to gather. My new Woodland Spa Retreat in Somerset is a place for all this and more. I have just 2 rooms available and the details are in my bio. You can of course speak to me direct. It’s going to be very special and I would love to share it with you.

23/06/2026

26/05/2026

I know lots of us have been working over the bank holiday (in my case online yoga and hosting my art show which is open 11-5 daily till Sunday 31st). I hope whatever you’ve been doing that there’s been time for joy, pockets of laughter and moments of beautiful connection. Here are some photos from my early morning walk and swim today - my idea of heaven and I hope a little boost for you too. Cornwall sea swimming and coast.

18/01/2026

When did you last carve out time, not to do but to be? Not to get things sorted but to let go. Not to change or improve yourself in some way, but to reconnect to the vital essence that already exists within you. Underneath the other demands of life, below the surface of what the world requires of you… This is your chance.

After the last few months that have seen a great personal loss, during which it felt wrong (impossible even) to be holding such space, I’m gently delighted to be able to open the doors again and welcome you in.

A roaring fire, the ti**le of Koshi Bells, the comfort of shared laughter and possibly a few tears. Women alongside women. The pleasure of slow and tender movement. The joy of pausing and breathing in the quiet of this place… Sunday 15th January we gather to release, reclaim and renew.

Follow the link or message me to book ✨💛✨UPDATE: just 2 places left