So many of us are running on empty, moving through our days in a state of underlying tension (gripped jaw, tight shoulders, background headache... sound familiar?), always switched on and rarely truly at rest. Even when we stop, we do not really feel rested. We collapse into sleep from exhaustion rather than drift softly into it.

Rested & Ready is an invitation to change that rhythm. To pause. To let the nervous system exhale. To relearn the language of rest.

Across five weeks, we gather for gentle movement, breathwork, and deeply restorative practices that calm the body and quiet the mind. Each session offers a space to land, unwind, and reconnect to a slower, kinder, more human pace of being.

It is not your fault that slowing down feels hard. The world asks so much of us. But together, we can create a pocket of time each week to remember what it feels like to be fully at ease. To rest not as a luxury, not something earned, but as a birthright.

WHAT REST ACTUALLY DOES

Most of us treat rest as whatever is left over once everything else has been done, a reward for getting through the list, which is a long way from how the body actually works. The stress response is built for short bursts, a surge of alertness that is meant to pass and be followed by a return to baseline, and when the demands keep coming, the system that raises the alarm rarely gets the chance to fully stand down. Sleep tends to suffer, and poor sleep in turn leaves the body’s stress systems more active the following day, so that tiredness and tension begin to feed one another in a loop that more effort does very little to interrupt.


What does interrupt it is giving the body the conditions in which it can change gear. A review of more than two hundred studies found that slow, voluntary breathing raises heart rate variability, a measure that reflects parasympathetic activity, the part of the nervous system associated with recovery, and in our evenings together the breath is paired with supported postures held long enough for the body to stop bracing and begin to settle.


None of this is about learning to rest harder or getting it right. Rest is what the body returns to when it is finally allowed, which is why these evenings ask nothing of you except to be there, held by the blankets and the breath, while your nervous system remembers what it already knows how to do.

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RHYTHM & THEMES
Each week builds gently on the last, inviting you to slow down, soothe your nervous system, and rediscover rest as a practice of remembering, not doing. There will be some sharing of poetry and prose, some guided movement and meditation, as well as silence.

Each session is 75 minutes and includes guided breathwork, gentle movement, restorative poses, and stillness. You’ll also receive access to the recordings for ongoing practice and integration.
  • WEEK ONE : 11 NOVEMBER
    FIND THE GROUND

    We begin with arrival. Through gentle movement, breath, and awareness, we connect to the support beneath us. This is about establishing safety in the body and learning to feel held by the earth.
  • WEEK TWO : 18 NOVEMBER
    OPEN TO PRESENCE

    A week for softening into presence. We explore the relationship between noticing and breath: how awareness shapes the rhythm of our breathing, and how the breath, in turn, shapes the quality of our awareness.
  • WEEK THREE : 25 NOVEMBER
    REST THE BONES

    This is where we begin to let go. We rest the body so completely that the bones themselves can settle, releasing layers of muscular holding and mental effort.
  • WEEK FOUR : 2 DECEMBER
    HELD & CONTAINED

    Safety allows surrender. Using props like blankets and bolsters, we create containment, a cocoon of comfort that invites the nervous system to soften.
  • WEEK FIVE : 9 DECEMBER
    SOFTEN THE VEIL

    We close with a yoga nidra practice, a journey through the layers of self into stillness and spacious awareness. Here, rest becomes something sacred: a remembering of who you are beneath the noise and the doing.
THE DETAILS
Rested & Ready runs for five Wednesday evenings, from 11 November to 9 December, 19h30 to 20h45 (London/Lisbon time).

Every session is held live, and I'd love for you to join us there if you can, there's something different about moving through this together in real time rather than alone later. If life gets in the way on the night, a recording is there for you, and it's yours to download and keep forever.

The whole series is €60.
I am so excited to explore this series with you.
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