Terra Prana

Terra Prana Yoga, breathwork, meditation and forest therapy. Guiding breath, movement and stillness in nature.
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03/09/2026

Loved this feedback at the end of yesterday’s class: „This was so good. I feel completely different to how I felt this morning before coming here.“ 🥰
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New classes start next week! 🌿I’m so excited to get back on the mat with you all. Here’s what’s on offer:☀️ Wednesday mo...
26/08/2026

New classes start next week! 🌿

I’m so excited to get back on the mat with you all.

Here’s what’s on offer:

☀️ Wednesday mornings, 10–11am, starting 02.09.26

🌙 Monday evenings, 6–7pm, starting 07.09.26

Both will take place in the Salle des Fêtes next to the Mairie in 24450 Miallet.

I’ll be running both as a block of 7/8 weeks — book the block and it’s just 7€ per class, a lovely way to commit to a regular practice and really feel the benefit of showing up week after week.

Prefer to dip in as you go? Drop-ins are welcome too, at 8€ per class.

And if you’ve never joined me before, your very first class is always free — no pressure, just come and see how it feels.

Whichever class suits you, I’d love to see you on the mat.

Message me to book your spot! 🙏🏼

It’s all about balance and the middle way 🧘‍♀️
21/08/2026

It’s all about balance and the middle way 🧘‍♀️

I love this illustration 😍It demonstrates something that many people who are new to yoga misunderstand: no one steps ont...
20/08/2026

I love this illustration 😍

It demonstrates something that many people who are new to yoga misunderstand: no one steps onto the mat for the first time and is able to follow all the moves/do all the poses.

Most poses require us to work our way into by building strength, balance and confidence, and this takes time…

Even as a yoga teacher and someone who has been practicing yoga for over a decade, there are still poses I can’t do. That’s right! And if I don’t practice regularly and lose my strength, I will struggle with poses that are now easy for me.

This is not meant to be discouraging, but quite the opposite. You’ll never be done on your yoga journey and there are always new things to try and expand into. And it feels truly amazing to finally master a pose you have been working towards.

This summer, for example, during my break from teaching, I’ve been focusing on improving my half moon pose and reverse half moon pose, wild child and headstand in my own practice. I didn’t judge myself for not being able to do them perfectly yet (being a yoga teacher, after all) but tried to embrace what is generally referred to as “Beginner’s Mind” — a Zen Buddhist concept meaning an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions.

If you truly want to improve in your yoga practice, this is a mindset you’d do well to embrace, alongside a consistent practice.
One yoga class per week only does so much, which is why it’s important to attend every week if you really want to see a difference.

Even better if you include some shorter practices during the week, maybe focusing on the specific poses you are struggling with and hoping to improve.

Expectation vs reality isn’t a failure — it’s just where the practice begins. 🌿

I read something this week that’s stuck with me.A physiotherapist who’s spent 20+ years working with people over 50 wrot...
18/08/2026

I read something this week that’s stuck with me.

A physiotherapist who’s spent 20+ years working with people over 50 wrote that most of us judge “ageing well” by all the wrong things — a few more wrinkles, a stiff knee, waking up a bit creaky. But he says none of that actually tells you much. What matters is capacity: not how active you look, but what your body is still capable of when you need it.

He gave seven signs.
Reading through them, I kept thinking: this is yoga.
This is exactly what we’re building on the mat, week after week.

🪑 Getting out of a chair without using your hands — every time we move through a slow squat or rise out of a seated pose with control, we’re training that leg strength.

🧎 Getting down to the floor and back up — half of what we do in class is getting up and down off the floor. It’s not just flexibility, it’s strength, balance and confidence working together.

🦵 Standing on one leg — tree pose isn’t just pretty. It’s balance practice, and balance is one of those things that quietly fades unless we ask it to stay.

🚶 Walking at a decent pace — the strength and mobility we build on the mat is what carries you up the hill without needing to stop.

🛍️ Carrying something heavy — real strength, the kind that helps you lift the shopping or a grandchild, comes from functional movement, not just muscle for muscle’s sake.

🩹 Not treating every ache as decline — this is such a yoga lesson. We learn to notice sensation without panicking over it, to keep moving with discomfort rather than shrinking away from it. Discomfort isn’t always danger.

🙋 Still saying yes — this might be my favourite one.
Yoga keeps inviting you to try the next variation, hold a little longer, come to a new class, take a new shape. Saying yes on the mat builds the confidence to say yes off it too.

None of this is about looking 30 again.
It’s about keeping enough strength, mobility and confidence to keep living the life you actually want — the walking holiday, the grandkids on the floor, the garden, the new thing you’ve never tried.
That’s what we’re doing here, one class at a time. 🌿

(Couldn’t share the original article as it’s behind a paywall, but wanted to share how much it resonated!)

Yoga classes will commence again in September 🍂 Here’s all the info 🤓I look forward to seeing you on the mat again soon ...
03/08/2026

Yoga classes will commence again in September 🍂
Here’s all the info 🤓
I look forward to seeing you on the mat again soon 🧘‍♀️

🌲 Ever wonder why the forest just… works on you?It’s not just the quiet, and it’s not just the soft, non-directed attent...
02/08/2026

🌲 Ever wonder why the forest just… works on you?

It’s not just the quiet, and it’s not just the soft, non-directed attention that lets your mind finally rest — the kind we talked about with sit spot practice.
There’s something else at work, and it’s chemical.

Trees are pumping out natural airborne compounds called phytoncides — their own defence system against insects and disease. Pine and cedar are the richest sources.
Every breath under that canopy is a dose.

Japanese researchers gave it a name: shinrin-yoku, forest bathing. And they didn’t just FEEL calmer after — the science backed it up:

🌿 NK (natural killer) cell activity spikes — immune support that can last over a week after one visit
🌿 Cortisol drops, nervous system downshifts
🌿 Heart rate and blood pressure ease
🌿 Anxiety, fatigue, and low mood lift

You don’t have to do anything. Just sit. Stay longer than feels necessary. Let your attention soften, and let the trees take it from there.

How to do „sit spot practice“ An important part of forest bathing/ forest therapy is „sit spot practice“.As the name sug...
01/08/2026

How to do „sit spot practice“

An important part of forest bathing/ forest therapy is „sit spot practice“.

As the name suggests it involves sitting in one spot in nature for extended periods of time and ideally, to return to the same spot regularly. (As someone who likes variety, I have to admit that I have several sit spots that I use and that’s also totally ok).
Your sit spot can be somewhere in your garden or in a nearby park if you don’t have easy access to a more natural environment but of course, the more wild, the more powerful and interesting the practice can be.

Once you picked a spot you go and sit there (or even lie down if you wish).
Now, unlike in meditation where we might close our eyes and try to turn inward, in sit spot practice we want to open all our senses up and turn outward.

However, calming our mind and distracting thoughts in order to become present and mindful, can be challenging so it‘s not a bad idea to start the session with some breathing or meditation exercises just to help settle the mind a bit. 5-10 minutes should suffice.

Even after practicing meditation and/or breathwork, you may still find that your mind is all over the place. That’s ok. Don’t fight it or give it too much attention. Instead focus on your senses. What can you hear, smell, feel, see, taste? Use your senses to tune into the natural world around you. It takes time but after a while you notice things you didn’t notice when you first sat down.

As time passes, your senses grow more and more sharp. It’s almost as if ancient memory in your DNA is taking over as your body remembers that you, too are an animal and part of nature.

It’s not like meditation because you are not exerting any effort or trying to concentrate your mind on something specific. Instead you open up to receive information from the natural world around you and allow your mind to follow those inputs.

The scientific term for this is „non-directed attention“. It’s defined as a natural mental state where your brain passively processes stimuli without deliberate focus or conscious effort. You do not force yourself to concentrate or block out distractions, but your thoughts drift freely and naturally, and interest is captured automatically by ambient, pleasant surroundings. Research shows that this kind of non-directed attention rests the brain and cures mental fatigue.

I recommend to do this for at least half an hour but find an hour the ideal amount of time.

Don’t get put off by a distracted mind or initial restlessness.
We live in a world of constant distraction and not only does sitting still and doing nothing for an hour feel like a luxury, but we‘re also simply not used to it. So allow yourself some time to get used to it.
The benefits are really worth it.

For anyone looking for an embodied way to process their ecological grief in the face of the wildfires everywhere, I reco...
25/07/2026

For anyone looking for an embodied way to process their ecological grief in the face of the wildfires everywhere, I recommend supported child‘s pose.
You can add blocks to raise the front of the bolster higher if needed and also use big pillows if you don’t have a bolster.
Hold the pose for as long as you need to.
It will help restore a sense of groundedness and balance.
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I love teaching yoga but find that I struggle to properly focus on developing my own practice when I do 🤷🏻‍♀️Since the s...
15/07/2026

I love teaching yoga but find that I struggle to properly focus on developing my own practice when I do 🤷🏻‍♀️

Since the summer break began I have found renewed focus in my personal, daily practice, mastered half moon pose 🤩 (something I have been working on for a while using the steps below if you fancy a go yourself 😉) and started some continuous further education, which I‘m really enjoying 🥰

I hope that all of this will flow into my teaching come September so you can all benefit from it 🧘‍♀️🙂

But before I start planning in more detail, I just wanted to invite people to let me know what they would like to see me offer in the new season (starting in September).

Is there anything you are particularly interested in trying out or doing more of?
What are you hoping to get out of the classes?

Please feel free to share anything that you‘d like me to consider for the new classes in the comments below 🙂

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