Rachael Moore Yoga & Wellbeing

Rachael Moore Yoga & Wellbeing Teacher of vinyasa, pregnancy & restorative yoga . Qualified Menopause & Health Coach.

15/09/2026

What if the asana isn’t actually the peak of your yoga practice?

It’s easy to think this is the practice.

The asana.
The strength.
The flexibility.
The peak pose.
The beautiful shapes.

And they are wonderful.

For many of us, they are the way in to yoga — the doorway that draws us towards something deeper.

But to see them as the whole practice is to see only part of the story.

Because the real “peak”, for want of a better word, often happens in between the asana.

In between the breaths.
In the stillness of Savasana.
In seated meditation.

And sometimes, it happens long after you’ve rolled up your mat and stepped back into your day.

You’re not quite sure what has shifted.
You just know something has.

Traditionally, the asana were practised to prepare the body for seated meditation — creating a steady, comfortable seat.

So whilst the asana is a beautiful, exciting and intriguing part of the story, perhaps she isn’t the main character.

The main character slips quietly in between the shapes.
Between the breaths.
Nesting down towards the heart.

And little by little, you begin to notice her.

The growing ease.
The greater equilibrium.
The pull to sit a little longer in stillness.
The quiet wisdom unfolding within you.

You feel her as you become more and more at home in this beautiful, glorious body of yours.

And then the practice begins to ripple outwards.

Into how you meet yourself.
How you respond.
How you breathe through the difficult moments.
How you move through your days.

So yes — practise the shapes.

Let them be your way in. Learn from them. Be inspired by them. Let them build focus, discipline, awareness and presence.

But then stay for the real gift.

The gift of becoming a little more at home within yourself.

A little more at ease.

A little more… you. 🤍

What if midlife isn’t about becoming less, but an invitation to become more fully yourself? 🌿THE ART OF MIDLIFE💫As someo...
08/09/2026

What if midlife isn’t about becoming less, but an invitation to become more fully yourself? 🌿

THE ART OF MIDLIFE💫

As someone navigating these midlife years myself, I know how we can experience a kaleidoscope of emotions in a single day. And I also recognise the enormous amount of noise that surrounds this season of life.
What to eat. How to exercise. How to get stronger, fitter, healthier, better… younger.
Sometimes it can feel exhausting & overwhelming.
But The Art of Midlife isn’t about fixing ourselves or adding another thing to the ever-growing list of things we should be doing.
IRather, its about meeting ourselves where we are, as we are.
Through the heat the uncertainty, the freedom, the lessons, the grief the joy….the becoming.
Four intentional essential oil blends, offering a different doorway into the wonderfully multifaceted woman you are:
✨ RADIANCE — remembering your light�🌿 STEADY — finding your footing�🌸 BECOMING — embracing the who you are becoming�🌬 SPACIOUS — creating room to breathe
Each has been thoughtfully created as a small, tangible anchor for the day — accompanied by a simple ritual of breath, mindful gesture & reflection.
Because sometimes the yoga practice doesn’t happen. The gym session gets missed. Dinner is something grabbed from the freezer…
& Instead of feeling gulity, we can notice the small pockets of time already woven into the fabric of our day.
Waiting for the kettle to boil.�Sitting in the car.�Standing at the window.�Settling into bed.
Perhaps these tiny pauses can become portals into the sacred.
A chance to pause.�To breathe.�To receive.�To remember.
To reconnect with your body, your intuition, your inner wisdom — & perhaps the person you are becoming.
This is The Art of Midlife.
Created with love, intention & a deep belief that we don’t need to become more.
Sometimes, we simply need to remember who we are.
With love,
Ray xx
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29/07/2026

🤍“In any quiet moment when you are breathing, the breath may flow out and pause of itself. Here, experience opens to exquisite vastness with no beginning and no end. Embrace this infinity without reservation. Dive into it. Drink deeply and emerge renewed.”🤍
— The Radiance Sutras by Lorin Roche

I return to this sutra often.

Reminding me that nourishment is not always something we need to seek outside of ourselves. More often than not, it is already here—quietly waiting beneath the noise, within the rhythm of our own breath.

Perhaps our practice isn’t always about cultivating more energy.

Rather, maybe it is about learning to circulate the energy we already hold—guiding it, through breath, movement and presence, towards the places that need it most.

Meeting ourselves exactly where we are.
Not striving.
Not forcing.

Simply softening into this moment… one breath and movement at a time.

And from that place of presence, something begins to shift…

So let your practice meet yourself where you are my love.Drink deeply…
And emerge renewed.

💫This will hardly be the most beautiful photograph to grace your feed today…But to me, this kitchen table holds a certai...
27/07/2026

💫This will hardly be the most beautiful photograph to grace your feed today…

But to me, this kitchen table holds a certain kind of magic.

It’s where ideas are given room to breathe. Where imagination gets to take the lead and creativity is free to wander without needing to know exactly where it’s going.

It’s where the abstract slowly becomes tangible. Where thoughts become words, blends, practices and offerings. Where I give myself permission to play, to experiment, to get things wrong, and to trust the process.

There’s something wonderfully liberating about creating without needing everything to be perfect.

And that, to me, is a kind of m a g i c.

💫Right now this table is scattered with essential oils, notebooks and little bottles as I find myself in the dreamy midst of creating a new collection of Intentional Blends and botanical spritzes for The Art of Midlife.

Rather than simply fragrances, they’re small rituals. Gentle companions. Daily invitations to soften the edges, steady the nervous system, reconnect with yourself and remember that there is beauty in slowing down.

I haven’t felt this deeply aligned with an offering in a long time. It feels as though years of teaching, learning, listening and living have quietly found their way into these little bottles.💫💫💫

I cannot wait to share them with you when they’re ready.
Something tells me they’re going to be rather special. 🌿✨.

I have been reflecting recently on what it means to be healthy, as opposed to being fit.This train of thought began afte...
14/06/2026

I have been reflecting recently on what it means to be healthy, as opposed to being fit.

This train of thought began after the Radiant Woman retreat that Emma & I hosted last week Reflecting afterward, I wrote that radiance belongs to the woman who has found her healthy.

But what does that even mean?

Often fitness & health are used interchangeably. If you’re fit, then you’re healthy… right?
Actually, no. I don’t think so.

I know, 100%, that I could be fitter. I see the soft belly, feel the slight tug on the waistband & if Im being honest, I’m not yet be wholly comfortable with it.

But to push against this, to try & rid myself of the softness, I’m not entirely sure it would leave me happier or healthier.

To push harder at the gym, do more cardio than I already do would create a sense of force behind it. A feeling that I am somehow not good enough until I reach a certain outward ideal.

And behind that? More stress & less space for other activities that bring me joy.
To me, being healthy encompasses so much more than physical fitness. Fitness is simply one thread in a much larger tapestry.

So rather than asking ourselves how we look physically & whether our bodies measure up to some external standard…

What if we asked:

How are my relationships with those I cherish?
Am I making time for the things that bring me pleasure and take me out of myself a while?—writing, gardening, cooking?

How am I nourishing myself on & off my plate?
Am I finding time to rest?
Do I move in ways I enjoy?
Do I feel strong?
Do I feel resilient?
Am I able to move through my day feeling resourced?

Of course, nothing is static. Our lives ebb & flow with the seasons. There will be times when our version of “healthy” comes with greater ease than others &that too is ok.

Perhaps what lies beneath all of this is the fostering of a tender awareness of where we are & what we need in order to feel healthy & resourced.

May we find the courage & trust to dive into our own intuition & weave a beautiful, richly textured tapestry of what a healthy & resourced life looks like for us.

05/06/2026

🤍A lovely, kind and wise friend asked me the other day what yoga is, or what it means to me.

The question lingered.

And whilst I could have spoken about strength, flexibility, balance, breath, or finding a little more ease, none of those felt like the whole truth.

When I sat with the question for a while, this is what emerged…

🤍Yoga and I… an unfolding and enduring love story.

It has been the companion that has held me steady and given me wings.🪽

Connecting me to my body, breath, and heart. Offering sweet refuge in difficult seasons and breathing life back into me when I’ve felt depleted.

At times it has been a calming balm. At others, a fortifying and electrifying elixir.💫

Yoga has made me stronger whilst softening my heart, cultivating curiosity, resilience, contentment, and wonder.

For over twenty-seven years, it has quietly accompanied me through every season of life. Yet somehow, I feel as though we are only just becoming acquainted📿

The beauty of yoga is that it is never truly mastered. It continues to reveal itself, layer by layer, breath by breath, meeting us anew each time we step onto the mat.

And if you are new to this journey, if yoga is quietly whispering in your ear or gently knocking at your door, let your curiosity win.

Allow those whispers to be heard.

Let yoga take you by the hand.

Let it move you. Let it introduce you to your breath. Let it open tender conversations with your nervous system and your inner landscape.

I promise it is a friendship—a love affair, even—that you will never regret beginning.

🤍🙏🤍

14/05/2026

🧘🏽‍♀️ Sometimes the practices that create the biggest shifts are the ones that look the simplest from the outside.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Over the past couple of years my relationship with breathwork has changed deeply.
For a long time, I was drawn mostly towards grounding, soothing practices — softening an already overstimulated nervous system and creating more space for rest, steadiness and exhale.

🧘🏽‍♀️ But more recently, I’ve also been exploring the value of intentional, energising practices such as Breath of Fire.
Not to push harder… but to gently expand capacity.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Capacity to hold sensation.
Capacity to move energy.
Capacity to meet life with a little more resilience, clarity and steadiness.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Practices like this remind us that nervous system work is not always about calming down. Sometimes it’s about increasing adaptability — learning to move more fluidly between activation and rest without becoming stuck in either.

🧘🏽‍♀️ In this reel I’m practising Breath of Fire with a soft breath retention at the end. A few rounds was enough to shift me from scattered and unfocused into feeling clearer, brighter and more present.

🧘🏽‍♀️ This is something we’ll be gently exploring inside CAPACITY over the coming weeks — not through force or overwhelm, but through small intentional practices that help us build a little more inner resource over time.

✨ Have you explored more stimulating forms of breathwork before? I’d love to know how they feel in your body.

☀️You’re not meant to feel exhausted all the time.And you don’t need to push harder to feel better.💫When your nervous sy...
04/05/2026

☀️You’re not meant to feel exhausted all the time.

And you don’t need to push harder to feel better.

💫When your nervous system is supported, your energy becomes more steady, your mind clearer, and your body more responsive.

This is exactly why Emma and myself created ✨RADIANT✨— a full day designed to help you feel strong, calm and reconnected to yourself

Together, we’ll blend
✨ Strength training
✨ Yoga flow + breathwork
✨ Nervous system regulation
✨ Deep restorative practices
✨Essential Oils, Cacao & journaling
✨Connection & joy in nature 🌳

All held within the beautiful surroundings of Wysing Arts Centre

A space to move, pause, connect and expand into the season ahead.

📅 .arts.centre
⏰ 06.06.26 || 10am-4pm

BOOKING || https://www.rachaelmooreyoga.com/events/radiant-a-day-of-strength-flow-summer-expansion-3

30/04/2026

Very excited to be hosting this day retreat with the wonderful Emma Joyful Menopause
Take a look for more info!
🤩☀️🤩

28/04/2026

😐Feeling a bit stuck, irritable, or just a bit meh?

☀️This pranayama — Breath of Joy - is just that a j o y & is a simple but powerful way to shift your state.

⚡️The combination of rhythmic breath and movement helps us to energise the body, increase oxygen flow, and gently help reset our nervous system.
I find it particularly helpful when I’m feeling sluggish, tense, or a bit foggy.

☀️And In seasonal terms, whilst spring carries an “up and out” energy — it can also bring frustration and irritability. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is linked to the liver and gallbladder meridians and the wood element.

⚡️I love practices like this- helping to move that energy rather than letting it stagnate, leaving me bright, light and with a smile on my face ☺️

☀️Simple, effective, and honestly… hard to do without shifting something, even slightly.

⚡️Try at least 5 rounds (more if it feels good) and notice what changes.

☀️We’ll be practising this in class all week — let me know how it feels for you.

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