My name is Joanna, and I have over 20 years experience in holistic health and wellness. My specialist areas are spiritual and wellbeing coaching and as a therapeutic yoga instructor. I have over 500 hours training including accessible yoga, myofascial release, Yin, Hatha, Yoga Nidra and Womb yoga. I’m a firm believer in what is presented in the body physically, has deep rooted connections emotionally. I believe in working using all elements of yoga as well as working energetically alongside the chakras, the moon and the seasons, as working with these natural systems can evoke the biggest transformations within a person’s psyche. I also specialise in working alongside women as they transition through various life stages.

The vessel I walk around in, the skin. bones,muscle, organs that give me the human form to walk this earth, I honour and respect that by nourishing it with love, healthy food, water and trying to stay away from as many toxins and poisons as I can, and if I slip I get up and try harder the next day, I’m keeping the physical body healthy while it carries my soul on a journey, its only on loan.

I refuse to feed negative situations with such thoughts or feelings that enable them to grow. I remove weeds from my mind and clean up my mental garden for new plamts to flourish and thrive, trusting the universe with my deepest fears and darkest thoughts. My memories in my mind continue on with my soul carrying the karmic lessons I still need to learn, even harder the next time round, why would I ignore them in this life when I have such an amazing groundwork to ease me through the process in this life.

My emotional body, that can destroy so much of the rest of my vessel if I don’t keep it healthy. I pick my safest place and expel everything so as I don’t carry it, like a monkey on my back chipping away and boosting my ego. I stay out of the puddle by working with everything I have, trusting my intuition as its clear,its clear because I took care of the many layers of my body in the first instance.

To be spiritual to me is to love, honour and care for the vessel that carries my soul through this lifetime. A spiritual life to me is to live each day as a new one, as the only thig guaranteed is death. If I live in the past, Im living in just that, if Ilive in the future, well I cant because it hasn’t happened yet, a spiritual life is being present in the moment and absorbing every new experience right there and then. To be part of a group of like minded people is to feel safe to offload all my stuff so I don’t carry it, to be heard without judgement or be thrown words of ‘how should I do it’ its my experience how I do it or deal with it is part of my journey, we aren’t all the same, there's a difference between listening and hearing, and to be heard without the need of a response is being held in a safe space. Support doesn’t come from words it comes from the energy of people within that space, an energy that you know you can trust, that can hold you without fear of judgement, that will allow you to be just as you need to be in that moment to work it through your system so its no longer held. To be spiritual means to learn everyday of our walk through life, to not live in yesterday or tomorrow but to live it right now.

Joanna x