Healing Corners Yoga

09/09/2026

We live largely according to linear expectations.

The same productivity. The same energy. The same output. Day after day.

But the female body isn't static.

Across the menstrual cycle, our hormonal landscape changes, and with it can come changes in energy, appetite, mood, sleep, physical capacity, and the need for rest.

Learning this changed the way I understood my own body.

Ironically, it was my experience with fibroids that sent me down that path in the first place.

I wrote about that journey from a difficult medical appointment to hormones, fertility awareness, and body literacy on Healing Corners Yoga.

What My Fibroids Taught Me About the Female Body
Link in the first comment.

02/09/2026

The body does not experience hormones, metabolism, reproductive health, stress and wellbeing as separate systems.

Yet healthcare often divides them into exactly that.

This is one of the reasons I found the change from PCOS to PMOS Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome so interesting. The new name asks us to look beyond the ovaries and recognize the much wider picture of what is happening in the body.

I explored what the name change means and why I think it matters in my latest article on Healing Corners Yoga.

Read: PCOS Is Now PMOS, And the Name Change Says More Than It Seems.
Link in the first comment.

28/08/2026

Release the day. Rest into the night. 🌙

Sometimes the body is tired, but the mind hasn’t received the message yet.

This gentle 15-minute floor-based practice was created for those evenings when you know you need rest, but you’re still carrying the day's movement, thoughts, and tension with you.

We move slowly. We breathe. We soften through the hips and spine. And eventually, we stop asking the body to do and give it permission simply to be.

A small transition between the day you’ve had and the night ahead.

🌿 Gentle, floor-based yoga
🌿 15 minutes
🌿 Slow movement + breath
🌿 Deep rest and relaxation
🌿 Beginner-friendly

The full practice is now on YouTube. You can find the link in the first comment.

If you're doing this one tonight, save it for later. 🤍

Love,
Mel

21/06/2026

Today I want to say thank you.

To a practice that has been quietly shaping me for longer than I realized. That taught me to sit with discomfort instead of running from it. To breathe when everything in me wanted to hold.
I did not find yoga. Yoga found the parts of me I didn't know needed finding.

This practice came from teachers, and teachers before them, and lineages that stretch back further than any of us can trace. I hold that with gratitude and with humility.

Happy International Yoga Day.
To the roots. To the tradition.
To everyone still walking the path. 🌿

19/06/2026

A New slow floor practice is up on YouTube.

This class focuses on the hips, legs, and lower body, but honestly, it is also for everything we tend to hold there without even noticing.

For those moments when the body feels a little tight, a little heavy, or like it has been carrying more than you realized.

Filmed at Lea’s Women’s Center in Tala, Cyprus, with so much gratitude.

Come practice with me when you need to reconnect with your body.

A slow, floor-based yoga practice for the hips, hip flexors, inner ...

14/06/2026

If your neck has been feeling tight, or your spine just stiff from the day, I made something for that.
It's 19 minutes, fully seated, slow and simple.
Nothing fancy, just a chance to soften a little.

Filmed at Lea's Women's Center in Tala, Cyprus, a place I'm always grateful to share.

A gentle 18-minute seated yoga practice for the neck, shoulders, up...

16/05/2026

PCOS has officially been renamed PMOS, and I have written a reflection on what this change means.

For decades, Polycystic O***y Syndrome has focused attention on the ovaries. But for many women, the condition touches so much more. Hormones, metabolism, energy, sleep, and the nervous system. The new name, Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, finally reflects that fuller picture.

In the blog, I share what this renaming means for women's health and for yoga practice, including which kinds of practice genuinely support a body with PMOS, and which might quietly add to the load.

Read the full piece here 👇🏼

PCOS has officially been renamed PMOS. What the new name reveals about women's health, and why not every kind of yoga supports a body navigating this condition.

13/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed or tense? This one is for you. 💛

I just uploaded an 11-minute gentle yoga practice designed to help your nervous system come back to balance. It's completely floor-based, no standing, no complicated poses, just slow, supported movement and breathwork to help you decompress.

We move through belly breathing, constructive rest, supine twists, Bananasana, Supta Baddha Konasana, Happy Baby, and Savasana. The perfect wind-down for the end of a stressful day, or honestly, any time you need a reset.

The link is in the first comment; use it to watch the video.

If it helps you, share it with someone who needs it today.

Love and Light 🌿✨
Mel

09/05/2026

I come back to this again and again.
On the difficult days, the overwhelmed days, the days when everything feels like too much.
The breath is always there.
It has never once let me down.

08/05/2026

I was in my early forties when a fertility specialist changed the course of my life, not because of anything he did right, but because of everything he did wrong.

What followed was a slow, quiet revelation. My body is cyclical. It moves through distinct phases, each with its own hormonal landscape, strengths, and need for rest and expression. All this time, I had been overriding it.

Perhaps you weren't told either.

I wrote about what that discovery meant for me, as a woman, as a yoga teacher, and as someone who had spent decades in her own body without properly meeting it.

If you work with women, care for women, or are a woman, this one is for you.

One doctor's dismissal sent me on a journey into hormones, fertility awareness, and cycle wisdom. What I discovered changed how I live in my own body.