RHYTHM & RELEASE

Friday 8th August

RHYTHM & RELEASE Friday 8th August

Hi!

I’m Sam. I offer weekly movement classes, monthly workshops, seasonal retreats and courses in South Bristol.

Together, we drop the ‘shoulds’ and start listening to what’s actually happening inside your body.

My work is rooted in rhythm - the kind that honours both the seasons around us and the ever-changing ones within. We make room for it all - anger, grief, joy, calm - and gently question the stories we've been handed: that we should be quiet, compliant, and perfect.

My monthly workshops (join for the year!), courses and retreats are mapped across the seasons, beginning in autumn 2025. They’re designed for women who are done with the burnout and boredom of patriarchal hustle culture, and who are ready to reclaim their cyclical nature, move in rhythm with the natural world, and live in a way that honours depth, rest, and change.

This is not movement to shrink, refine or get right.

You just get to be you - in whatever season you're in.

If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re in the right place.

Keep scrolling to find out more👇

Join me

  • Weekly Classes

    Join a weekly movement class in BS3, Bristol

    Held in community spaces in BS3

    Summer schedule now available

  • Courses

    Join a 6-week seasonal yoga course for women

    Next Course: Autumn (starting in Sept)

    Windmill Hill City Farm Studio

  • Monthly Workshops

    These monthly gatherings will hold you in the flow of the year - starting Sept 2025

    Windmill Hill City Farm. BS3

  • Retreats

    Join a seasonal retreat to mark the turning of the wheel

    Next Event: Sunday 28 Sept (4 spaces available)

    Windmill Hill City Farm & The Orchard Sauna

My Philosophy

It’s important to me that my work is underpinned by my values . If you’d like to find out what has shaped me, and what I hope will support you, please read.

  • As individuals we are becoming more and more disconnected - from ourselves, from our local communities, and from each other. That’s why community is my first and most intentional value. Especially for women, shared spaces are more than nice-to-have, they're vital lifelines. Research shows that a strong sense of belonging can reduce anxiety and depression, improve confidence, and protect against isolation

    I choose local community spaces over glossy studios, and host classes where I can walk or cycle to. Moving slowly through my local area keeps me rooted within it. Holding my offerings in community spaces also keeps things real: informal, honest, and welcoming.

    All of my seasonal offerings and courses are designed with connection in mind. That’s why I ask people to sign up for a whole season - so you’re not just showing up to move, but slowly getting to know the people you're moving with. That continuity builds trust, deepens connection, and transforms shared movement into belonging.

    Whether we’re gathering in a room, moving together online, or sitting in a circle under open sky, the spaces I hold are about belonging. No masks. No performance. Just real connection.

    My intention is that community becomes medicine and connection becomes resistance.

  • There’s a rhythm to everything.

    For years, I lived out of sync - pushing, striving, chasing some imagined ideal. I thought that perfecting poses or pushing harder would bring peace. But real peace isn’t found through perfection, it’s found through presence.

    In 2017, I started slowing down: digging soil, growing food, noticing seasons change. That earthy work shifted everything. It invited me into slowness, into feeling, into the deep, ancient rhythms beneath the noise.

    Now, my work is centred around the seasons and designed to shift with nature’s cycles. She Moves with the Seasons follows the seasons. We make room for rest in winter, open-hearted fire in summer, and stillness in the in-between. When we lean into seasonal wisdom, it’s more than poetic - it’s practical. Living in rhythm with nature reduces stress, boosts resilience, and helps us feel more grounded and alive

    My seasonal offerings - courses, events, retreats - all invite curiosity about our bodies' natural cycles. We shift tone, tempo, and focus to meet what our bodies need, just like ancient traditions teach

    This work is a reclamation of a truth we all carry: your body is not separate from nature - it is nature. And when we move in its rhythm, we remember who we truly are.

  • I was 36 when I walked away from a decade of teaching in a system built on control and compliance. My Ashtanga training felt like more of the same - uniforms, strict routines, a male guru on a pedestal.

    Overtime, I realised how deeply we’ve been fed lies - about beauty, worth, discipline, femininity, pain. I stopped trying to transcend my body and started listening to it. I stopped performing and started feeling. And I’ve never looked back.

    This is where Shake the Dust and somatic movement comes in. It’s not about landing the perfect pose - it’s about feeling it all, letting it move through you.

    Shake the Dust is a cathartic, somatic movement practice that shakes off social conditioning, those deep ‘shoulds,’ ‘coulds,’ and ‘musts’ and invites you to live in your body, not your head. It gives your nervous system permission to process, release, and come home to itself

    This truly is embodied activism. It’s a quiet, fierce act of resistance against the stories we’ve been told - that women must be quieter, prettier, more palatable to belong.

    We listen. We rage. We rest.

    Embodied activism in motion.

Qualifications & Trainings

Sociology Bsc(hons) | University of Bath | 2002-2005

Secondary Education PGCE Philosophy, Religious Education | University of Gloucestershire | 2010

Foundational Yoga Teacher Training | British Wheel of Yoga | 2018

200hour Yoga Teacher Training | Ashtanga Yoga | Himalaya Yoga, India | 2019

The Sounds of Sanskrit - The Language of Yoga | Lucy Crisfield 2020

50hour Shake the Dust | Authentic Flow Tribe | 2021

50 hours Advanced Shake | Authentic Flow Tribe | 2021

RAW - Reality, Authenticity & Wonder | A 6 months Immersion | Fanny Olsson Yoga | 2021-2022

200hour Somatic Yoga Training | Authentic Flow | 2021

50 hours Embodied Yin Teacher Training | Authentic Flow Tribe | 2022

Empower & Embody Prenatal Yoga | The Embodied Beings | 2025

I continue to attend trainings & workshops wherever possible.

Continually learning, unlearning, practicing & evolving.