Join me Sunday February 26th prepare for the next chapter in your life. This offering is a monthly meet up, a space to come together in joy, in practice. To share, be nurtured and be held within a safe space. We will begin with a yoga class lead by Chris Molloy. The class will be a Bhakti class filled with devotion for yourself. An offering of love and gratitude for the year that has passed and welcoming the light of the year ahead. The space will be there for you to rest, restore and recharge. Being together, practicing yoga together, supporting one another, showing up for every woman in the room.

The theme of February’s circle is Prepare. The separation of set patterns can be painful, we are used to feeling and acting in certain ways. This day will help you to reset patterns and mindsets that heal and allow you to experience life in a new way. We will sit in a healing meditation taking note of what comes up and moving from this space.

After our Ãsana class we will draw awareness to our breathing patterns with a Pranayama practice. Following this you will enjoy Mama Cacao to fully absorb and bathe in all that is shifted throughout the day.

We will then enjoy a loving, nutritious meal together by candlelight.

Book in here.

Joining me in class this week –

Today, Sunday is the January Gathering which is full, but you can join me in February see all the details above.

Monday 10am at BodyMindBreath book via MindBody app.

12.30pm EdenOne members only.

Tuesday 11.30am EdenOne members only.

Wednesday 7.30pm online build fire in your practice with a strong Evening flow.

Thursday 7pm online WindDown yoga, release tension and stress in your body.

Friday 6.15pm YogaHub Blackrock, this class is full each week so book today via MindBody if you wish to join me.

Saturday 11am Herbert Park, Vinyasa under the sky. It’s the best part of the week, the temperatures around 10 degrees so just wear a few layers and prepare to flow. If it’s too cold or wet we have the option of the indoor studio space in the Park. Park Yoga never disappoints, it’s truly transformative to receive all the gifts of Mother Nature.

Book in to the outdoor or online classes here.

Much love a chroí,

Chris x

When you wake up to a morning like today; a cold, wet January morning mindset is so important. The January Gathering is sold out and I am so happy for that. Sipping mama Cacao while reading and editing the Gathering notes for January’s gathering I choose to listen to the rain and am grateful to be inside my warm home.

Our cat Mittens is also grateful, she’s refusing to go outside and who’d blame her? My reading this morning is about what darkens the mind. The coming weeks tend to be quite hard for us all, the Christmas buzz is over, family has returned back to their homes, kids are back in school, we are back at work, it’s like a long hangover. Embracing each morning is a way that can allow you to notice the light rise a little earlier this week. The sun set a little later. Take a walk when the sky is blue (if you can get outside), if not go to a window and allow yourself to take in the blue sky for a few moments. Take time making your Cacao or tea in the morning and notice that first sip, embrace it.

A little bit of care for yourself first thing in the morning allows you to create a mindset of preparing for the day. Can you meditate for a few minutes, could you do 15 minutes of Yoga? If you can clear the mind, understand your direction of thought, move forward and keep your attention on what’s important the day will be better, your life will be clearer.

What am I watching this week? As you probably know I’m tennis mad so have watched all 5 episodes of Break Point on Netflix. It shows with big pink highlighter the effects of the mind. With every player struggling with the Monkey mind playing negative thoughts as they win or more often lose.

We strive each day to help the mind move in a straight continuum, but know that when you fall off the path of conscious awareness dust yourself off and reset. It’s the time of year to reset and so we begin again.

Join me in class this week –

Monday 10am BodyMindBreath, Embodied flow. Book via MindBody

12.30pm EdenOne, Yin Yoga

Tuesday 7.30am EdenOne, Hatha Yoga

11.30am EdenOne, Hatha Yoga

Wednesday 7.30pm, online Evening flow

Thursday 7pm online, WindDown Yoga

Friday 6.15pm YogaHub Frascati, flow. Book via MindBody

Saturday 11am Park Yoga, Herbert Park, book into these classes here

Sunday 3pm January Gathering.

The January Gathering is completely full but February and March are open you can book your place here.

These Gatherings are a way of being together, each month has a theme covering Reflection, Preparation & Compassion. You can find out further details on each gathering here. In the words of Ram Dass we are all walking each other home.

Much love a chroí,

Chris

I hope you had a peaceful and calm Christmas with an abundance of love from those around you.

Wow the pressure this time of year, it’s post Christmas pressure and stress and everyone is focussed on what they can give up or what they can change to better themselves. Everyone I talk to is joining some gym, giving up something, abstaining from something it’s just purge purge purge.

Want to change for real growth? Then simply sit, meditate in quietness. See what comes up when you do this. Write it down, how can you make it happen. Be with the people who align to this growth, let others fall away. Commit to the practices that align with this growth, others fall away.

That’s it, then you need to commit. Don’t admonish yourself if you fall down, dust yourself off and restart. Be kind to yourself and to others. And remember the kind words of Ram Dass –

We are all walking each other home

Ram Dass

Join me for 30 days of Yoga begin when you can in the month, 30 days of access to live classes that focus on inner work, strength and Vinyasa. You can join me here. Classes include Monday online 7am, Wednesday evening flow online 7.30pm, Thursday online WindDown 7pm, Saturday Park Vinyasa 11am.

If you are a regular Park Yogi you can save money by getting the 6 park yoga pass here.

December brought a shift in awareness that we all need more ceremony. So each month I will hold a gathering, this month it is January 22nd, please join me for a celebration of this new year. A celebration of what you have achieved in your lifetime. We will celebrate through Yoga, Cacao and food. You can join me by clicking here.

Much love

x Chris

Thank you so much to those who gathered with Christine and myself yesterday morning. We began by honouring the dark. Our ancestors knew exactly how much power the darkness held over us humans, lighting the black candle we honour the crone aspect of the triple goddess. Helping us to focus on inner strength & help clear obstacles for the light of the new year. Newgrange and Stonehenge are testament to how important this festival was to our ancestors and so to us.

We gathered to welcome the light into our lives for 2023, to welcome longer days. We burn in fire what we no longer need in our lives. We allow it to release, we let go. This has been a powerful ritual for me. I vividly visualise what I am releasing, I write it down and I burn it. Give it a go, it’s powerful.

The full moon in cancer is inviting us to be nourishing and nurturing towards ourselves. Capricorn season is all about our roots, a time for deep inner reflection. Cancer is the sign of the mother and the energy of this season should be all about self care. So take time to rest over the coming weeks.

I will sign off 2022 with this quote –

‘In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer’.

Albert Camus

Looking forward to seeing you in 2023.

Final class of 2022 is online Monday 7am it’s a mixed class of Cacao, Journalling & some movement. For this final class it’s free come along by joining here.

Have a wonderful Christmas break, spend time with those who love you and will nurture you.

Be well my love,

Chris

Gratitude, it’s that simple. To recap this year to sum it up in one word it would be gratitude. Gratitude for you who show up for outdoor classes in the sunshine and rain. For you who show up for online WindDown & Vinyasa classes. For you who join me on Retreats or in ceremony at live events. My deepest gratitude to you my love ❤️.

To end 2022 I hope you will join Christine Higgins & myself Sunday 18th at Sandycove for a sunrise Solstice welcoming ceremony. If you follow me on Instagram you will see my many reels and photos of sunrise over the past few years. For me each sunrise is an opportunity to reset how I show up. How my thoughts and actions influence my life. Sunrise happens each day but around the 18th (the 21st actually) the light will get a little brighter, the days a little longer and Mother Earth will begin her shortest day and longest night. Our gathering will be a journey into the light of the year to come, set intentions of how you wish to greet the light. It’s a time to celebrate with those you love with dancing and fire ceremony. What we will do is some fire yoga, reiki healing, drumming. We will make you a tea from our native Hawthorne which has very many healing & magical benefits.

Have you been to any of Christine’s full moon healing circles? She’s a powerful person who will elevate this event. We will meet at the green area by Sandycove around 7.45am to set up and get your place. It will be cold so please wear lots of layers. There will be a light ceremony also, if you have joined me for previous Solstice events you will know how important this is to honour those who have passed on during the year.

The event is free but you please register your place here.

Have a wonderful Sunday, enjoy the cold snap. Sunrise is out there take a look xx

Join me for class this week –

Monday 7am online, Cacao Journal Move (The perfect way to start the week and beat the winter blues). Join me each Monday of December to celebrate the start of each week. This online class is a welcoming of light into your soul each week. Join up here.

10am Flow at BodyMindBreath Dun Laoghaire, book via MindBody.

12.30pm EdenOne

Tuesday 11.30am EdenOne

Thursday 7pm online WindDown Yoga

Friday 6.15pm YogaHub Blackrock, book in via MindBody

Saturday 11am Park Yoga Herbert Park

Come to more than 1 class a week? Try the 30 days of Yoga pass here.

Want to book into any of my classes above click here.

Much love, x

Chris

Hello loves,

As I write this I have drunk my Cacao and am watching the dawn break in Dublin. It’s a beautiful morning, still 13 degrees and lots of blue and orange in the sky. Yesterday in the park we had so many reminders of Mother earth supporting us. The sky was slightly grey but bountiful in gifts of warmth and calm. The ground was soft and the feeling of lying in Savasana was amazing. The leaves under us provided a cushioned layer.

Recently in class I have been playing a song called Decision for Savasana. It’s a beautiful song by a Brazilian artist called Silvio Piesco. He’s an artist who spans music, visual art and photography, all these disciplines for a curious mind. Some-one who deep dives into lots of creative spaces. The song is a lesson in choice. In how you greet each day. You have a decision to make with each breath, each movement, each word, each way you spend your energy. Have a listen, let me know what you think.

At the start of each day we all have a decision, with that first morning breath you can choose the day you are going to have. Let your first words and thoughts be kind, be of love, be of compassion. The early morning hours are a calling to make the journey back to your inner self. In ancient times (and if you come on a yoga retreat with me) people would rise early, bathe, perform ritual, recite mantra and meditate. When my kids were young each morning I would cuddle them and tell them to wash away the night from their bodies, they still remember this. Then in the evening the ancients would wash away the day’s fatigue and meditate some more.

Sunday December 04th will echo this evening energy. The yoga class will be about devotion and introspection. Praising the sun, the wind, the fire, the rain. We will honour the seasons, the cycles of day, birth, death and rebirth. The Cacao ceremony will ignite your inner fire and allow you space to create what 2023 looks like for you. The food you eat and the conversations that flow will all be in a safe held space where you will hopefully feel totally sustained and held for the entire day and beyond.

Each class I teach, each event I curate, each retreat I design it is with the intent of sharing love, I hope you feel this love.

The final places await you, please join me by clicking here.

Join me for class –

Monday 7am online, Cacao Journal Move (The perfect way to start the week and beat the winter blues). Join me each Monday of November to celebrate the start of each week. This online class is a welcoming of light into your soul each week. Join up here.

10am Flow at BodyMindBreath Dun Laoghaire, book via MindBody.

12.30pm EdenOne

Tuesday 11.30am EdenOne

Thursday 7pm online WindDown Yoga

Friday 6.15pm YogaHub Blackrock, book in via MindBody

Saturday 11am Park Yoga Herbert Park

Come to more than 1 class a week? Try the 30 days of Yoga pass here.

Want to book into any of my classes above click here.

Much love, x

Chris

Join me Sunday December 04th as we embark on a journey towards the Winter solstice. December can be such a busy time for us all. We can find ourselves being pulled in so many ways. This day is an offering to slow down. We will begin with a yoga class lead by Chris Molloy. The class will be a Bhakti class filled with devotion for yourself. An offering of love and gratitude for the year that has passed and welcoming the light of the year ahead. The space will be there for you to rest, restore and recharge. Being together, practicing yoga together, supporting one another, showing up for every woman in the room.

Following this will be a Cacao ceremony lead by Nicky Halliday. Nicky discovered ceremonial cacao in Costa Rica over 4 years ago and developed a beautiful relationship with this incredible heart opening medicine. Her mission was to spread the word in Ireland when she returned. She has now shared cacao with over a thousand people in Ireland and around the globe. She believes cacao helps us to connect deeper to ourselves and the world around us. Helping to awaken our intuition, our creative essence and our inner healers. “To live with an open heart is a brave thing to do, and mama cacao facilitates this journey so beautifully”.

After our time with Yoga & Cacao we will then journal. Journalling is a way of connecting to what really lies within you. At this time of year it’s a way of checking in with how your year has been and maybe deciding how you will move into the New year. It can be about asking inner questions and having the time to hear the answers. The combination of yoga, Cacao and journalling allows you to really tap in to what lies ahead for you for the new year.

Then Lisa Davies (who I am so happy to work with again) will nourish us with delicious vegetarian seasonal food. Lisa, originally from Wales, moved to Ireland via the US about five years ago. She loves cooking and trained at the French Culinary Institute in NYC and then started a cookery school in Montclair, NJ. She teaches cooking at Airfield Estate and also does private cooking classes. She is a wonderfully talented cook, whose food is seasoned with love and warmth true to her personality and love of sharing her knowledge.

Join us by booking in here.

Join me in class this week –

Monday 7am online, Cacao Journal Move (The perfect way to start the week and beat the winter blues). Join me each Monday of November to celebrate the start of each week. This online class is a welcoming of light into your soul each week. Join up here.

10am BodyMindBreath, slow flow in Dun Laoghaire

12.30pm EdenOne

Tuesday 11.30am EdenOne

Thursday 7am YogaHub Blackrock

7pm online WindDown Yoga

Friday 6.15pm YogaHub Blackrock

Saturday 11am Park Yoga Herbert Park

Come to more than 1 class a week? Try the 30 days of Yoga pass here.

Want to book into any of my classes above click here.

Want to join me at YogaHub please do so via MindBody.

Much love, x

Chris

I was reading an article during the week about SAD (Seasonal Affective disorder). Some people report craving carbohydrates, feeling lethargic and struggling to get out of bed in the morning. As this happens when light diminishes each year. It begins around now, and if you are are prone to this condition then it’s there until Spring. Quite a long time to live with it each year. Here’s an article from the NHS worth reading. If light and mood are part of a cycle of triggered by seasonal change how can you best Prepare your body & mind for colder, darker times?

There are lots of studies to show that pranayama, yoga, a morning walk can all help with getting your mind in a calm & centred space. Engaging actively in the world with diet, sleep, exercise & social interaction helps to reset your circadian rhythms.

If you wake feeling a bit crap, take a nice long inhale, pause for a moment then exhale for a little bit longer than your inhale. Do this a few times before you rise out of bed. Then place your hands on your heart centre or abdomen and say I love you. It’s a difficult time of year for our bodies to transition from Summer energy to Winter energy, be kind to yourself, be kind to those around you.

“Remember resilience is not about toughness it’s about approach”

BB

Join me for class –

Monday 7am online, Cacao Journal Move (The perfect way to start the week and beat the winter blues). Join me each Monday of November to celebrate the start of each week. This online class is a welcoming of light into your soul each week. Join up here.

12.30pm EdenOne

Tuesday 11.30am EdenOne

Thursday 7am YogaHub Blackrock

7pm online WindDown Yoga

Friday 6.15pm YogaHub Blackrock

Saturday 11am Park Yoga Herbert Park

Come to more than 1 class a week? Try the 30 days of Yoga pass here.

Want to book into any of my classes above click here.

Want to join me at YogaHub please do so via MindBody.

Much love, x

Chris