Choose Movement

Choose Movement Group exercise classes and Mindfulness coaching
Flexible body&mind
Classes run online and in Warwick.

Group classes running online, one to one running face to face. I Move Freely Pilates,
Back Pain Class,
Ante/Post Natal Exercise (Fit4Mums),
Exercise for Older Adults
One to one and group classes
Soft Tissue Therapies

28/07/2026

Movement is an invitation to reconnect with your body. ✨

So often, exercise is framed as something we have to do — something uncomfortable, exhausting, or even tied to negative experiences from our past.

But movement can be different.

In my classes, the focus is on tuning in rather than pushing through. It’s about listening to your body, noticing sensations, and moving in a way that feels supportive and sustainable for you.

As we get older, we all navigate different challenges and limitations. That’s why movement isn’t about comparison. It’s not about being the best, keeping up, or seeking approval.

It’s about showing up for yourself.

Meeting your body where it is. Doing what you can. Building trust, awareness, and understanding with every movement.

Because this is your journey, your body, and the more you learn to listen, the stronger your connection and communication with it becomes.

What if your body isn’t tight?What if it’s trying to protect you?So many people come to my classes and tell me their sho...
27/07/2026

What if your body isn’t tight?

What if it’s trying to protect you?

So many people come to my classes and tell me their shoulders are tight.

Their hips are tight.

Their back is tight.

And sometimes that’s true.
But sometimes I wonder if we’re looking at it the wrong way.

What if your body isn’t the problem to be fixed?

What if it’s been working incredibly hard to keep you safe?

Holding stress.
Holding responsibility.
Holding grief.
Holding the pressure of trying to keep everything together.

When life feels overwhelming, our bodies often respond.

We clench our jaw.
Lift our shoulders.
Hold our breath.
Brace our stomach.

Not because we’re broken.

But because our nervous system is doing what it was designed to do.

Protect us.

The difficulty is that many of us never get the chance to let go.

We move from one task to the next.
One demand to the next.
Always rushing.
Always doing.
Always pushing.
And eventually that protection starts to feel like tension.
Like stiffness.
Like being disconnected from ourselves.

This is why I’m interested in both movement and mindfulness.

Not because I think we need fixing.

But because we need opportunities to listen.

To notice.
To soften.
To become curious.

Sometimes healing doesn’t begin by forcing the body to change.

Sometimes it begins with a simple question:
“What is my body trying to tell me?”

And then being willing to listen. 🪷

24/07/2026

Embodied Mindfulness is more than a relaxation technique.

It’s an undoing, an awareness, an awakening to the ways our body and mind hold the tension of our conditioning.

Those tight shoulders, clenched jaw, that hip pain. It’s often as a result of holding stress and tension in your body from the overwhelm of the mind.

When we can lean into present moment awareness, allow ourselves to feel our body, allow stillness… we start to heal.

Through the curiosity of Mindfulness we see through the systems that are imposed on us. We are led to love, peace and compassion.

22/07/2026

I see you ✨

🦋🪷💖

20/07/2026

There’s something reassuring about knowing that the doubt, restlessness, or lack of motivation you wake up with isn’t unique to you.

These experiences have been part of the human condition for thousands of years.

In Buddhist psychology, they are known as the Five Hindrances — mental states that can cloud our minds and make it harder to feel clear, focused, and at ease.

They’re often discussed in relation to meditation practice, but I’ve noticed they can show up just as strongly at the start of the day.

The good news is that mindfulness doesn’t ask us to fight or suppress these experiences. Instead, it encourages us to notice them with curiosity and kindness.

By acknowledging what’s arising, rather than resisting it, we can respond more thoughtfully and move forward with greater clarity.

If you’d like support developing a mindfulness practice and learning how to work with these challenges, I’d be happy to help through mindfulness coaching.

15/07/2026

‘Enlightenment is intimacy with all things’ Zen Master Dogen

Forever grateful for the Mindfulness and movement practices that are my ground, the practices that bring me peace, that help me hold this messy, beautiful life.

12/07/2026

The mind is a deletion machine.🧠

It forgets, ignores and lets most of our experience pass by us.

Mindfulness is a remembering.✨

A coming back to the present moment to feel it more fully.🪷

Remembering to breathe,

Remembering to hear the wind,🌝

To see the trees,🌳

To fully embrace each moment with peace and an open heart.

Remembering to notice the joys, the beauty, the love and the sacredness of our life.🦋

(Despite the messy, chaotic paradox that we live within.)🌍

Remember to look up today, to see clearly, to notice something beautiful, to smile. 🪷

11/07/2026

Do you love yourself? 🪷

Through Mindfulness Meditation we learn to hold ourselves with care and compassion.

We awaken to the conditioning that we have experienced that has influenced our beliefs, views, opinions about ourselves.

We awaken to the commercial industries that depend on us hating ourselves to sell products and boost profits.

We get the opportunity to ask if they are true.

Is our worth dependent on the colour of our hair, the number on the scales, the wrinkles on our skin?

We learn to listen deeply to our inner wisdom and regain a sense of trust in ourselves.✨

Trust in our deeper value.
Trust in our belonging based on who we really are.
Trust in our unique specialness.

Not doing what we are told, not following the majority, not being a good girl and going along.

We open our hearts to our suffering, when we recognise the truth from our own experience.

We find the capacity to hold other people’s suffering.

From there we find more strength.

Strength from a place of peace.
Strength from a place of love.
That is the path of insight Meditation.

Know yourself.


10/07/2026

Mindfulness of the body🪷

We can spend our days stuck in the mind, following distractions, thoughts, focussed outwardly.

Meanwhile the body is clenched, tight, constricted and holding onto untold emotions and experiences.

Could you take a few moments throughout the day to scan through the body, to connect and notice what’s going on.

Allowing whatever arises, allowing it all with kindness and curiosity.

You might notice resistance to stay with uncomfortable sensations.

You might notice thoughts and judgments arising.

Just name and notice and let go of everything else.

Our conditioning means we grow up with a lot of baggage around the body, a lot of expectations, a lot of fears, judgments, expectations.

Many of us learned not to feel, not to listen to our intuition, to shut down the difficult sensations.

So it’s not always easy to connect.

Mindfulness of the body starts with a willingness to be with the body, noticing sensations and naming them, noticing what pulls us away.

Start there and let me know what you notice ⬇️

08/07/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the huge array of spiritual practices available. I’ve been wondering whether it’s helpful or harmful.

Guided meditation,
Chanting,
Sound baths,
Breathwork,
Ecstatic dance,
Yoga,
Ice baths,
Heat immersion,
Silent retreats,
Dark retreats,
Qigong,
T’ai chi,
Chakra healing,
Energy tapping,
Reiki,
Plant medicine,
Tarot,
Regression therapy.
The list goes on and on and on…

But I think it can be confusing and encourage a sort of spiritual shallowness.

Often we come to a spiritual path to overcome suffering and I do think it’s good to try some different stuff to find what works for you.

But

At some point you have to dedicate yourself to something. Otherwise you will never progress through to easing your suffering. You won’t embody the teachings, they won’t embed into daily habits, it will all just stay surface level.

Depth takes dedication and healing takes commitment.

It takes practice, it takes time (like years, decades), and it’s not easy work. And that’s not a popular thing to say. We want quick fixes.

When we jump from practice to practice, consume books without doing the homework, we get a surface level understanding.

I want more than anything for people to find their practice. The more we heal ourselves and open our hearts, the more we awaken and become conscious… the more chance we have of healing our communities and our world.

Yet I’m struck by a sort of spiritual ADHD in the industry. Is it helpful?

What would it be like to commit to a practice?
What are the barriers?
How does it feel to stick with a practice when it gets uncomfortable?
Do you give up when doubt arises and move on to the next?
Give up on meditation because you can’t sit still?
What excuses do you find?

Does this resonate? What practices have you stuck with, if not why not? Comment below ⬇️

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