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If you have ever felt overwhelmed by challenging emotions (and really, who hasn't?!), this one is for you. Often, when e...
14/09/2026

If you have ever felt overwhelmed by challenging emotions (and really, who hasn't?!), this one is for you.

Often, when everything gets a little too much, we try to gain control over our thoughts and feelings by pushing them aside or packing them away into a neat little box...only for them to resurface in the most inconvenient moments. In this practice, we instead focus on sitting in relationship with our emotions, giving them space to exist and shifting them towards a healthier place. A little like a gym session, just for your nervous system.

New guided meditation live on Insight Timer now. Link ⬆

05/09/2026

Leave behind the busy city and step into an oasis of calm 😌
Unwind with me in candlelit yin yoga sessions on Wednesday and Sunday evenings. Groups are purposely small, with only a few spots available per session.
DM for details or book through the link on my profile
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In a world dominated by algorithms that tell you what to eat, buy and do with your days, it can be really hard to rememb...
03/09/2026

In a world dominated by algorithms that tell you what to eat, buy and do with your days, it can be really hard to remember that nobody gets to decide how you live but you.
Ready to break out of the distraction cycle and find your way back to a life aligned with your values?
Reach out to learn how coaching can help you take your first step ✨

27/08/2026

LAST CHANCE for early-bird pricing plus an extra £100 off to celebrate the Summer Bank Holiday ✨
Offer ends at midnight on 31st August!

Join the Balancing Akt Resilience Reset in December - 5 days of slowing down, taking stock at the end of the year, and setting intentions that will support into 2027 and beyond. Only three spots left, so book now to avoid missing out.

To get the special Bank Holiday pricing use promo code EXTRA100 when booking.

25/08/2026

10,000 plays and counting!
When I started playing around with these meditations back in January, I did not expect them to amount to much. Six months later, they've been played over ten thousand times, which is completely mindblowing to me 🤯

Balancing Akt has always been about helping people find a little bit of calm and building a resilience toolkit, and so it makes me beyond happy to know that I've been able to give a little bit of that even in this time of transition when I haven't been teaching. InsightTimer is such a brilliant tool for this, allowing anyone, anywhere, at any time to tap into meditation and mindfulness practices - if you haven't yet, try it out today. Maybe even with one of my tracks ☺️

And stay tuned for some exciting new - and slightly different - content coming soon!

Challenges strike when we least expect them...and can feel absolutely overwhelming; however, and as tempting as it may b...
23/08/2026

Challenges strike when we least expect them...and can feel absolutely overwhelming; however, and as tempting as it may be, one of the worst things we can do is to ignore the hard feelings. true resilience means being willing to face them instead of attem. all about knowing how to meet difficulty never facing difficulty. It's about knowing how to meet it.

This 10-minute meditation offers a gentle practice towards true resilience: finding steadiness in the challenges rather than by pretending they don't exist. It's a little reminder that you already have tools inside you to navigate out of the clouds and up whatever tall mountain may be ahead of you.

🎧 Available now on Insight Timer - link in bio

Four months ago, I packed up my comfortable life in small(ish)-city America and moved it back to big-city Britain. New j...
17/08/2026

Four months ago, I packed up my comfortable life in small(ish)-city America and moved it back to big-city Britain. New job, new home, new everything in a city I am deeply familiar with. It's the kind of "starting again" that sounds exciting in a sentence and feels like a lot more when you're actually living it.

There's a particular exhaustion to holding that much change at once. It's the admin, the unfamiliarity, the small griefs for what you left behind sitting right next to the excitement for what's ahead. Along the way, there are moments when you wonder how much more you can carry and definitely question all of your choices.

And then suddenly you look back and realise you didn't break in the storm. You held up and made it through; just like bamboo that doesn't break under weight. Bamboo bends, and that bend is exactly what lets it keep standing. I think we underestimate our own flexibility and resilience the same way. At the beginning, a season of upheaval looks like it should snap you; but in the end, you find you're still standing, maybe just reshaped a little by the wind.

If you're mid-upheaval right now - moving, starting over, holding more than feels possible - remember that you're more flexible and more resilient than you think.

Struggling to sleep those 8 hours you know you should be getting? Here's a little treat for your nervous system that is ...
09/08/2026

Struggling to sleep those 8 hours you know you should be getting? Here's a little treat for your nervous system that is easier to fit into your day: Non-Sleep Deep Rest.

NSDR is a guided practice that takes your body into a state of profound relaxation while keeping your mind awake and aware. And the best thing: it's incredibly efficient! Research shows that a short NSDR practice (think 30 minutes or less) can restore you as much as several hours of regular sleep.

I know, I know - meditation sounds even more stressful because none of us can turn off our busy minds; however, this is not meditation in the traditional sense. You're not trying to focus or achieve anything, but instead simply following guidance into deeper and deeper states of relaxation while your nervous system resets.

Here's what you can expect:
- Your parasympathetic nervous system activates
- Accumulated stress releases from your body
- Mental clarity returns
- Your capacity for resilience rebuilds
- Physical energy restores

🎧 29 minutes | Available for FREE now on Insight Timer - link to my full profile and all my meditations in bio

When your sense of identity depends on external achievements such as your job, title or accomplishments, you're building...
30/07/2026

When your sense of identity depends on external achievements such as your job, title or accomplishments, you're building your resilience on something that can vanish tomorrow. It's a really common trap many of us step into and we don't realise how fragile this construct of external validation is until the day it collapses. And in the meantime, the goalposts have moved several times over because every time we get close to achieving where we wanted to get, we've already started imagining bigger and better things. So you never even actually got to "enough".

And that's because feeling "enough" and real resilience don't come from external achievements; they're something you work towards and cultivate deep inside of you, regardless of what happens externally.

That internal work is not easy, but so, so worth it ✨ If you feel like you might want to start that journey and need a helping hand, get in touch!

Emotions move like waves. Some are small and gentle, others bigger and harder to stand in. Yet the one thing they all ha...
23/07/2026

Emotions move like waves. Some are small and gentle, others bigger and harder to stand in. Yet the one thing they all have in common is that they rise, hold, and eventually fall.

Most of us either fight the wave or get pulled completely under by it; however, there's a third way, and it starts with the breath. In this practice, your breath becomes your surfboard. Rather than controlling the wave, it helps you to ride it up and over, down and through. You learn to witness what you're feeling without drowning in it.

The more we resist, the choppier the ride; but when we allow ourselves to move with the wave, it doesn't pull us under.

🎧 New 10-minute meditation now available on Insight Timer - link in bio!

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