Birch Moon - Yoga & Chant

24/08/2026

22/08/2026

NEWSLETTER?

Hello lovely people,

If you would like to receive my newsletters - where I share Blogs, upcoming events, news and views - I'd love to connect in a more personal way...Click on my website link, scroll down to the bottom of the Home Page and pop your email address is.

For transparency:-
1. I might send you nothing for 4-6 weeks (!), then 3 in a row!
2. I NEVER sell or share your details. EVER.
3. You don't have to engage - but it's great if you feel called to.
4. There's a Newsletter going out at 5pm tonight with an update on our recent Yoga Nidra for Charity...
5. If it's not for you...I understand!

With love, Sarena

Holistic yoga and healing chant for personal and spiritual wellbeing. Classes, workshops, retreats and programmes in Somerset, South West England and online.

21/08/2026

AWOL...Absent without leave.

I didn't announce that I was taking a longer break than usual this summer (other than to my students of course!)

I just closed the "door", packed my campervan, added in my art materials and headed off...

South Wales, South Devon, Somerset (home ground), and London (trains!).

I absolutely LOVE teaching yoga and chant. But I sometimes get caught up in the social media "musts"...

I find it exhausting and so opposite to my philosophy on life. A false world...

But I make amazing connections via SM too...and value the opportunity to share my work (and art if you're curious - see artbysarena ) educate, learn, encourage, even inspire (on a good day!!).

I'll be gently re-entering this magical, weird IG world next week...let me know what you'd like to see/hear/read? (I know chants are much loved! Requests welcome 😀).

17/08/2026

Hello lovely people!

I have been AWOL - absent without leave (ish). Popping by with the occasional newsletter, offering a minimal amount of workshops or Nidras over the summer.

Teaching weekly classes, an 8 month chant programme and workshops meant a rest was needed (I turned 65 in January so that, believe me, is NOT 21 anymore!)

I wanted to give more time to my art (I'm on the St Ives Porthmeor programme which is amazing...) and have travelled around in my campervan sketching, exploring and playing. Although, to be honest, not quite as much as I'd planned as it was a bit hot...

If you've recently Followed this page - welcome! If you've been here a while - thank you.

Thank you to everyone who supports my yoga and chant offerings, those who are curious and anyone else just peeping around a corner wondering about this weird chant thing...but somewhere in your heart/soul, there's a "knowing".

So, what's happening? Oh...lots of GOOD things!

Our yoga classes start back from the 7th/8th September In person & Livestream.

My Beginners Vedic Chant course is also back - from Wednesday 21st October.

BEST OF ALL! Another wonderful retreat - The Quiet Moon - is happening in Dorset - October 16th - 18th. Limited places - these are much loved and usually fill quickly.

And 2027? Yes, I've been happily planning. The Art of Healing Chant Programme 2027 is now OPEN for applications. Limited places - please do check out the details on my website and arrange a chat (open to absolute beginners and those with experience). The 2026 cohort are an amazing group and I am SO proud of them; their chanting is beautiful, and their support of each other special. We co-create a true Sangha - spiritual community.

I'm off up to London on Wednesday - supporting my 92 yr old aunt after my uncle died in May. She is amazing and as bright as anything. I'll be taking in a Hockney exhibition too.

The season is changing, the heat slowing down and yes, rain will come (at some point in abundance...). DO look after yourself - you are precious and unique, even if you don't quite believe me...

Sending love and blessings to all - thanks so much for being here.
Sarena x

https://birchmoon.co.uk/

13/08/2026

🌸LAST CALL! Tonight - Cooling Water New Moon Yoga Nidra (for Charity) - https://mailchi.mp/7709b76689c1/last-call-cooling-yoga-nidra-tonight-for-charity

10/08/2026

NEW BLOG: You don't have to Sit to meditate... - https://mailchi.mp/1a40418e9aa9/blog-you-dont-have-to-sit-to-meditate Join me to explore meditation through movement and sound.

09/08/2026

🌸THIS THURSDAY! Cooling Water New Moon Yoga Nidra (for Charity) - https://mailchi.mp/2c75a2bfe744/cooling-yoga-nidra-this-thursday-14775126
And Vedic Mantra Sound Journey

06/08/2026

Take a little time to pause, to listen, to wonder..

06/08/2026

A daily Practise I Love...
WWW? = What Went Well?

We can so easily focus on what didn't go well, what we didn't get done, the state of the world (Stop!!)...

Instead, hunt out the good stuff.

It can be tiny (so often over looked).

Examples:-
1. Someone helped me with carrying a heavy box.
2. I made sure I ate more veggies today
3. The dog I'm looking after came back when I called him (true! :-) )

Don't dismiss the small things...they all build our positive mood, one small appreciation at a time.

It can be hard to do this, particularly when life is throwing us one too many boomerangs...but stick at it, I promise it helps.

What Went Well for you Today?

04/08/2026

Here in Somerset, SW of the UK, where we have a drought...it's just rained.

A bit.

A very little bit!