She Moves with the Seasons
She Moves with the Seasons grew as a counter-narrative to modern life and its message of more-more-more and do-do-do.
Guided by me, Sam - an embodied movement guide and organic vegetable grower - this program invites women back into the knowing of the body through movement, connection, reflection, and rest, using the seasons as our guide.
Each season holds its own invitation: a gentle counter-narrative to a culture of constant growth and productivity. Through movement, ritual, and honest conversation, we explore what each season teaches us about being women in a world that asks us to be linear, unchanging, and endlessly available.
Together, we practice remembering what our bodies have always known - that life moves in cycles, not straight lines.
Every session is an opportunity to gather, move, and listen - to your body, to one another, and to the wisdom of the Earth.
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Like many of us, I spent years moving through life with momentum - chasing productivity, pushing harder, playing the game. In my twenties and early thirties, it worked. Or at least, it felt like it did. But eventually, something in me said no.
Around the same time, I left my career as a sociology and politics teacher, moved back to the UK, and began working on a community-run organic farm. I spent six years living and growing with the rhythm of the land - veg and myself. It was a slow and honest re-education: healing from long days under artificial light, quick meals, linear expectations, and the demand to show up the same no matter the season.
During that time, I deepened my yoga practice and trained to teach ashtanga yoga, but I soon realised this contained the same old structures: push harder, strive for progress, listen to a male’s voice over my own. ‘Advanced’ meant achieving a shape, not inhabiting your body.
So I began to unlearn. I softened into movement as inquiry. I let my cycle and the shifting seasons guide me. I trained to guide somatically. And slowly, things began to re-root.
During the pandemic, I offered seasonal online packages shaped by my time on the farm, my studies in yoga philosophy, Buddhism and Ayurveda, and the body-based wisdom I was learning. Alongside Reclaim Your Cycle, and the popularity of She Who Held Many Selves, I found myself holding space for women navigating transitions, endings, initiations, and new beginnings.
This is the ground from which She Moves with the Seasons has grown .
She Moves with the Seasons: Summer
A 6-week journey for women exploring summer through movement, reflection, connection & rest.
Our next journey unfolds as we move towards summer - a time of fullness, warmth, and outward energy.
Through somatic movement, reflection, and shared space, we’ll explore themes of expansion, expression, and presence. We’ll honour the wisdom of summer: a season of radiance, embodiment, and showing up fully in the world.
After spring’s awakening, summer calls us into fullness.
This 6-week series is for anyone seeking aliveness in body, breath, and being. Through movement guided by curiosity and sensation, we’ll explore what it means to move with the season rather than against it. Practices are inspired by summer’s energy and the Fire element: expansive, expressive, radiant, and present.
Alongside movement, each session includes time to gather in a 30-minute sharing circle. These conversations weave together personal experience with reflections on cycles, seasons, and change - offering a counterpoint to dominant cultural narratives of constant progress, productivity, and linear growth. Narratives that often show up not only in our lives but in movement and yoga practices too.
This is not about fixing, achieving, or performing.
It is about listening, experimenting, and allowing something new to emerge.
Summer invites expansion where culture asks us to shrink,
expression where compliance is expected,
presence where doing dominates.
This series is an invitation to move with warmth, radiance, and authenticity, to inhabit your body fully, and to share space honestly and joyfully - together.
Details
May 6, 13, 20, June 3, 10 & 17
18:00-19:30
The Studio, Windmill Hill City Farm. Bristol
Who is this series for?
This series is for you if you’re longing to feel more alive - in your body, your movement, and your relationship with the seasons.
It’s for those who feel curious about moving differently: less driven by outcomes, alignment cues, or achievement, and more guided by sensation, play, and exploration.
It may particularly resonate if you:
Feel tired of linear ideas of progress, growth, and “getting better”
Sense that traditional movement or yoga spaces no longer fully reflect how you want to be in your body
Are drawn to cyclical wisdom, seasonal living, or nature-led ways of understanding change
Miss spontaneity or the freedom to move fully and expressively
Long for spacious, thoughtful community and shared reflection
Want to question dominant cultural narratives - gently, collectively, and through the body
No previous experience is needed, and there is no expectation to move in a certain way or at a certain level. This is not about flexibility, strength, or doing it “right.”
It’s for anyone curious about what might happen when joy, expression, and presence lead, the body is trusted, and growth is allowed to be nonlinear.
Investment, Booking & Venue
Each season is booked as a stand alone course, you can join just one, two, three or all of them! The individual sessions will not be available to drop-in, keeping the group dynamics throughout each series.
6 week course: £125
This price includes:
• Six 1.5-hour sessions
• Seasonal ritual
• Reading materials & inquiry prompts (ongoing)
• Access to a community group for sharing, reflection & connection
They will take place at The Studio, Windmill Hill City Farm (BS3) - a small, cosy space with all equipment provided.
Approximately a week before the course begins, you'll receive a confirmation email and a link to a short form covering group agreements, intentions, access needs, and anything you'd like to share. This helps shape a supportive, tailored experience for all.
Please check the dates carefully before booking as once booked, the series cannot be refunded
In between each each six week cycle, there will be the opportunity to join additional seasonal events (Reclaim the Seasons) to celebrate: Beltane and Lammas.
More information about these will be on my seasonal retreats page.