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Life Doesn't Have To Feel This Heavy

Gentle body-based movement, relaxation and community practices to help you reconnect with yourself.

Trauma-informed support for stress, overwhelm, burnout, chronic pain and nervous system regulation.

Is this for me?

Life doesn't have to be falling apart for you to need support.
Ashwild is for people navigating the challenges of being human. Stress. Burnout. Chronic pain. Life transitions. Grief. Parenthood. Change.

The feeling that you've lost touch with yourself somewhere along the way.

Maybe you're carrying too much.

Maybe life feels loud.

Maybe you've tried all the things you're supposed to do and still don't feel quite like yourself.

Or perhaps you're simply looking for a place to pause, reconnect and be part of a community that understands.

You don't need experience.

You don't need flexibility.

You don't need the right words.

You simply need to arrive.

A woman holding her neck surrounded by the forest and glowing from the sun

THe problem

Life can leave us carrying more than we realise. Stress. Burnout. Trauma. Chronic pain. Grief. Parenthood. Change.

Over time, the body adapts.

You might find yourself constantly busy but unable to rest. Exhausted but wired. Holding tension in your shoulders, jaw or chest. Struggling to slow down, switch off or feel fully present.

Even when life looks okay on the outside, your body may still be carrying the weight of what it's been through.

A woman at peace, sat with her hand on her heart breathing and relaxing in a calm room

What we do

We help people reconnect with themselves through body-based movement, breathwork, relaxation and reflection.

Our approach is trauma-informed, gentle and accessible. Everything is invitational. There is no pressure to perform, push through discomfort or get it right.

Rather than working against your body, we learn to listen to it.

Through an integrative combination of movement, rest and community, we create space to notice what you need and build practical tools to support everyday life.

What Changes

Many people arrive feeling overwhelmed, disconnected or stretched thin.

Over time, they begin to notice more moments of calm, clarity and connection.

The tension in the shoulders softens. The breath deepens. Rest becomes more accessible. Life feels a little less heavy.

You are not fixed.

You are not transformed overnight.

But you begin to trust yourself more, understand your needs more clearly and feel less alone in carrying them.

Weekly Community Practice

Settle the storm

Life can be noisy.

Full schedules. Endless responsibilities. Constant information. The feeling that you're always moving towards the next thing.

Settle the Storm is a weekly community practice designed to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself, and create space for what matters.

Each session explores a different theme through gentle movement, breath, guided relaxation and reflection. There is no pressure to perform, share or achieve anything. Simply an opportunity to pause, notice and spend time with yourself.

Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, exhausted, curious, or simply in need of a little breathing room, you are welcome here.

Each session includes:

🌿 Gentle, accessible movement
🌿 Breath and body awareness practices
🌿 Guided relaxation
🌿 Reflection and journalling prompts
🌿 Cacao, colouring and quiet community space

No experience is needed, and all practices can be adapted to suit your body and your needs.

Because sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is stop long enough to hear ourselves again.

Thursday evenings, 6:30-8pm | Our Lady Immaculate Parish Centre, 14 Exeter Road, Newmarket, CB8 8LT

£12 drop-in or book a space

tailored somatic work

1:1 Sessions

Personalised support for stress, overwhelm, chronic pain, life transitions and the challenges of being human. Together, we'll explore the relationship between your body, thoughts, emotions and experiences, helping you better understand what you're carrying and develop practical tools that support everyday life.

Drawing from somatic practices, breathwork, mindfulness, psychology and reflective conversation, each session is tailored to your needs, goals and circumstances.

This is not about fixing you.

It's about creating space to listen, understand and move forward with greater awareness and self-trust.

Primarily online (work from your own space), with in-person sessions available locally.

1 hour: £45 | 30 minutes: £30

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Somatic Workshop Participant

“I didn’t even realise how disconnected I was from my body until I walked into Ashwild. I thought I needed to push through the burnout, but what I actually needed was permission to feel. The movement, the breathwork, the space, it brought me back to myself. I left feeling lighter, seen, and safe.”

Preparing to hold an activation workshop: slow breaths, steady feet, grounded presence.

Preparing to hold a deep relaxation workshop: shaking, dancing, stretching, releasing every bit of tension I can find.

Because people don’t borrow our words.

They borrow our nervous systems.

And if I’m inviting people to let go, I need to be willing to let go too.

“Healing” has become one of those words that sounds beautiful but often means absolutely nothing.

So let’s make it real.

Healing isn’t becoming endlessly calm, positive or perfectly regulated.
It’s not floating through life untouched by stress, grief or anger.

Sometimes healing looks like:

* resting instead of pushing through
* setting boundaries and feeling guilty after
* crying instead of shutting down
* noticing your patterns in real time
* learning how to return to yourself when life knocks you sideways

Not perfection.
Not transcendence.
Just a little more honesty.
A little more self-awareness.
A little less abandonment.

#healingjourney #somatichealing #nervoussystemregulation #mentalhealthawareness #selfhealing

What starts as small, slow movement can become something much bigger.

A lot of us are carrying tension we don’t even notice anymore.
We brace.
Hold.
Shrink.
Move carefully through life without realising how disconnected we’ve become from our body.

Sometimes the body doesn’t need forcing or “fixing.”
It just needs enough safety, rhythm and space to soften a little.

And when that happens, movement often becomes more natural, expressive and free on its own.

Not performance.
Not choreography.
Just the body remembering it’s allowed to move again.

#EmbodiedMovement #SomaticMovement #MindBodyConnection #NervousSystemSupport #MovementMedicine

A new neuroscience paper is challenging the idea that trauma is literally stored in the body — and honestly, I think this conversation matters.

Because somewhere along the way, social media turned somatic work into:
“your fascia stores emotions”
or
“shake and release trapped trauma.”

But real somatic work is much more nuanced than that.

The body absolutely participates in trauma.
That’s real.

Trauma changes breath, tension, posture, movement, connection and our sense of safety.

But healing isn’t just about “releasing stored trauma from the body” — and it’s not “just mindset” either.

What somatic work often does incredibly well is help create new embodied experiences of safety, movement, grounding, connection and agency that the brain and body can learn from together.

Not wellness buzzwords.
Not magic fixes.
Not forced catharsis.

Just slowly helping people feel more connected, present and alive in themselves again.

#SomaticHealing #TraumaRecovery #NervousSystemHealing #MentalHealthAwareness #MindBodyConnection

There are moments where someone’s tone, behaviour or energy pulls you out of yourself so quickly that your words disappear.

You freeze.
Shrink.
Go quiet.
Forget what you wanted to say.

That isn’t weakness.

It’s a nervous system response.

But there are ways to interrupt the pattern and bring yourself back into the room.

One of the most powerful?

Pause.
Lean back.
Look them in the eyes and calmly say:

“What do you mean by that?”

or

“Can you say that again?”

It shifts the dynamic instantly.

Not because it’s aggressive.
Because it forces clarity, slows the interaction down and stops your body collapsing into survival mode.

You don’t have to shrink yourself to keep the peace.

#NervousSystemHealing #SomaticHealing #PeoplePleasingRecovery #EmotionalRegulation #SelfWorth

A few people asked about the cacao I use in Ashwild sessions, so I thought I’d share a little more about it.

I use ceremonial cacao as part of some workshops and classes because it helps create a sense of warmth, grounding and presence before we move into breathwork or embodied movement.

Unlike regular hot chocolate, ceremonial cacao is much less processed and keeps more of its natural compounds intact.

People often describe it as helping them feel:

🌿 calmer
🌿 more open
🌿 more connected to themselves
🌿 more present in the body

It contains magnesium and naturally occurring compounds linked to mood, circulation and focus, which is partly why it’s often used in mindfulness and nervous system practices.

But cacao also carries a long cultural history.

For thousands of years it has been used ceremonially by Indigenous peoples in parts of Central and South America — not as a trend or quick wellness fix, but as something sacred, communal and deeply intentional.

That’s why ethical sourcing matters to me.

Where possible, I try to choose cacao that:

🤝 supports fair pay for growers
🤝respects traditional cultivation
🤝is sourced with care and sustainability in mind

For me, cacao isn’t about “fixing” anything.

It’s simply a small ritual that encourages people to slow down, soften and arrive in themselves before we begin.

A quiet moment that says:
you can put things down for a while now.

The cacao I currently use is:
Pachakuti

I usually prepare it simply with hot oat milk and sometimes warming spices like cinnamon. You can sweeten with honey or maple syrup.

Have you ever tried ceremonial cacao before?

“They look fine.”

That’s what people say.

But autistic burnout doesn’t always look loud.
It doesn’t always look like crisis.

Sometimes it looks like distance.
Like play disappearing.
Like a child who is still there… but harder to reach.

And as a parent, you feel it before anyone else does.

You feel the shift.
You carry the doubt.
You hold the grief of someone who hasn’t left.

This is what burnout can look like when it’s not being seen.

And the truth?

With the right support, understanding, and pace…
children can come back to themselves.

But without it, we risk losing them in plain sight
and calling it “fine.”

If this is your reality—you’re not imagining it.
And you’re not alone.

#autisticburnout #autismparenting #neurodivergentchildren #sendparent #nervoussystem

Most people think confidence is about speaking louder.

But it’s not.

It’s about staying.

Staying in your body when it would be easier to shrink.
Staying in the moment when you feel pressure to explain, soften, or disappear.

That’s where things start to change.

Not all at once.
Just… a little more each time.

Save this for the moments you usually lose yourself.

⸻

#NervousSystemRegulation
#SomaticHealing
#EmotionalResilience
#SelfWorthJourney
#StressReliefTools

Somewhere along the way, many adults became responsible… and forgot how to play.

Joy doesn’t always disappear.
It often gets buried under stress, pressure and being needed by everyone else.

Play isn’t childish. It helps us reconnect with energy, confidence, creativity and feeling alive again.

Sometimes it looks like laughing hard.
Sometimes music in the kitchen.
Sometimes trying something new or moving your body freely.

If this speaks to you, Release is an upcoming guided movement workshop in Newmarket designed to help you let go, feel lighter and reconnect with yourself.

Which slide hit home today? 🌿

#Ashwild #NewmarketEvents #CambridgeWellness #WomenWellbeing #stressrelief

You hold it together for everyone else.

You keep going when you’re tired.
You stay calm when life feels loud.
You carry stress in your shoulders, jaw, chest, belly… and tell yourself you’re fine.

But your body keeps the score.

Sometimes talking isn’t enough. Sometimes rest isn’t enough either. Sometimes what’s been stuck needs to move.

Release is a guided movement workshop designed to help you let go of built-up stress, reconnect with yourself, and leave feeling lighter, calmer and more alive in your body.

No fitness needed.
No choreography.
No pressure.

Just space to breathe, move, soften and come back to you.

✨ Cacao
✨ Guided movement
✨ Breathwork
✨ Deep rest

📍 Parish Centre, 14 Exeter Rd, Newmarket, CB8 8LT
📅 Saturday 16th May
⏰ 10:30am – 12:30pm

If life has felt heavy lately, this is your invitation.

Spaces are limited. Book via the QR code or here www.ashwild.co.uk/book-online

#NewmarketEvents #CambridgeshireWellness #StressReliefUK #WomenWellness #SomaticMovement #NervousSystemSupport #BreathworkUK #SelfCareCambridgeshire #WellnessWorkshop #Ashwild #EmotionalWellbeing #MindBodyHealing #NewmarketMums #BurnoutRecovery #LetGoAndReset

What I actually do when my nervous system won’t settle (as someone who teaches this for a living)

Floor time. Singing in the car. Shaking. Specific breathwork for specific feelings.

These aren’t theories - they’re what works for my actual dysregulated body.

You don’t need fancy tools. Just practices that help.

#nervoussystemregulation #somatichealing #vagusnerve #anxietyrelief #burnoutrecovery

Someone died this week. Someone from the complicated side of my story.

And I’ve been sitting with how many things can be true at once — the love and the loss, the grief and the release, the child’s memory and the adult’s understanding.

Black and white thinking is a nervous system response. When we’re under threat, we simplify. Nuance costs resources. So we flatten everything into safe binaries and then wonder why we feel stuck.

But life refuses to be that simple. People refuse to be that simple. And grief absolutely refuses to be that simple.
You don’t have to choose one feeling. You don’t have to make someone a saint because they died. You don’t have to perform a grief that isn’t yours.

Multiple realities can exist inside you at once. That’s not confusion. That’s what it actually feels like to be human.

#ComplicatedGrief #NervousSystemHealing #SomaticWellness #GenerationalTrauma #HolisticMentalHealth

NUMBING VS RESTING

You’re exhausted. So you scroll. Netflix. Wine. Whatever gets you through.

Except the next day, you’re still tired. Maybe more tired. Definitely not restored.

Because numbing and resting aren’t the same thing.

Swipe for the difference →

Not advice. Just something worth knowing.

#nervoussystemregulation #nervoussystemhealing #somatichealing #somaticpractices #burnoutrecovery

“My child has meltdowns and I don’t know what to do”

You’ve tried time outs. You’ve tried consequences. You’ve tried talking calmly.
Still melting down.

Here’s what’s actually happening:
Their nervous system is overwhelmed. It’s stuck in fight-or-flight.
And no amount of talking will fix that.

What will help:
Physical input that regulates their nervous system.
✓ Heavy pushing (wall pushes, hand pushes)
✓ Tactile input (gentle tapping, raindrops)
✓ Breathing games (blow bubbles, candles)
✓ Movement (rocking, swaying, humming)
These aren’t rewards. They’re regulation tools.

Try them during the next meltdown. Watch what changes.

#childmeltdown #toddlermeltdown #parentingstruggles #overwhelmedkid #overstimulated

I made music for the moments between.

When you’re too activated to sleep but too tired to stay awake. When you need something to anchor to.

This is “Like a Dream” - the first track from a collection I’m releasing.

Full version on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WiWh8gKMo

To get the track for yourself:
https://ashwildhealing.gumroad.com/l/likeadream

#liminalspaces #sleepmusic #nightdriving #nervoussystemregulation #ambientmusic

Your throat holds everything you didn’t say.

Every time you swallowed your anger. Every time you smiled instead of screaming. Every time you said “I’m fine” when you weren’t.

It all gets stored there. In your jaw. Your throat. Your neck.

That’s why your shoulders creep up. Why your jaw aches. Why your voice feels small sometimes.

Here’s what helps:

Place your hand on your throat. Just rest it there.

Feel the warmth of your palm. Feel your breath moving underneath.

This is self-soothing. This is telling your body: it’s safe to soften here. Safe to speak. Safe to let go.

Then, if you’re ready, make sound.
A hum. A sigh. A low “ahhhh” from your chest.

Feel the vibration under your hand. Feel your throat opening. Feel what’s been stuck start to move.

You don’t have to say the words out loud. Your body just needs to know it’s allowed to.

Your throat has been guarding you. Protecting you. Keeping you safe by keeping you quiet.

You can thank it. And then you can give it permission to rest.

And if it wants to speak - even just in sound, not words - let it.

#SomaticHealing #TraumaInformed #ThroatChakra #NervousSystemRegulation #NewmarketSuffolk

You’re exhausted but you can’t sleep. Not because something’s wrong with you. But because your nervous system thinks lying still = danger. Here’s what’s actually happening - and how to fix it.

#Insomnia #CantSleep #SleepProblems #NervousSystemRegulation #somatichealing

Dysregulation doesn’t look like what you think it does. It looks like everyday exhaustion. It looks like “I’m fine.” It looks like functioning... barely.
If you recognize yourself in this, you’re not broken. Your nervous system is just stuck in survival mode. And you can teach it to feel safe again.

#NervousSystemRegulation #healingjourney #TraumaResponse #SomaticHealing #BurnoutRecovery

The most powerful thing you can do when everything feels too much? Pause.

Not because pausing fixes the problem. But because it gives you back your power.

When you react immediately, your nervous system is in control. When you pause, YOU decide what happens next.

In for 4. Hold for 4. Out for 6. Then choose.
The pause is where your power lives.

#NervousSystemRegulation #SomaticHealing #TraumaInformed #MentalHealthTips #AnxietyRelief

She told me she felt dead inside.

Not depressed. Not sad. Just... flat. Like someone had turned the volume down on her entire life and she couldn’t find the dial to turn it back up.
She’d been burnt out for eighteen months. Tried all the things.
Therapy helped her understand why. Meditation apps told her to breathe. Her doctor suggested antidepressants. Everyone kept saying “you need to rest.”

But rest wasn’t working. Because her body wasn’t tired - it was numb. Shut down. Holding years of things she’d been too professional, too polite, too “together” to let out.
She didn’t need to relax. She needed to discharge.
After one session of somatic release work - shaking, moving, letting her body finally DO what it had been trying to do for months - she cried in the car park.
Not sad crying. Relief. “I forgot I could feel anything,” she said.
Three weeks later: “I can laugh again. I didn’t realize I’d stopped.”

I’ve been thinking about her this week. And the others like her.
The ones who are so burnt out that “self-care” feels like another task they’re failing at.
The ones carrying emotional weight they can’t name, can’t think their way out of, can’t “just let go” of.
The ones who need to MOVE - not exercise, not perform, just let their body shake loose what’s been calcifying inside.

And so I created: Wildflower: A Spring Awakening & Release Workshop
Saturday, March 28th.

This is for you if Settle the Storm feels too gentle for what your body needs right now.
A space to ground, breathe, move, shake, stomp, make noise, take up space - then rest deeply enough to integrate it all.
Not a workout. Not a dance class. Not another thing you have to get right.
Just your body, finally allowed to do what it’s been begging for.

10:30am-12:30pm | Our Lady Immaculate Parish Centre, Newmarket
12 spots.
£20 Early Bird available until 28th Feb

If you’re burnt out, emotionally numb, or sick of being told to rest when rest doesn’t touch what you’re actually carrying - this is for you.

www.bookwhen.com/ashwildhealing

#SomaticHealing #BurnoutRecovery #NervousSystemRegulation #SomaticTherapy TraumaHealing

The thing nobody tells you about trauma:

It doesn’t live in your memories.
It lives in the breath you can’t quite take all the way down.
In the way your shoulders live up near your ears and you don’t even notice anymore.
In how you can’t bear certain textures, sounds, the way someone’s voice shifts tone.
In the vigilance that scans every room, reads every face, calculates exit routes you’ll never take.

You can think yourself out of the story. You cannot think yourself out of a nervous system that learned the world isn’t safe.

Talking therapies are incredible.
Understanding your patterns, naming what happened, making meaning from the wreckage - this matters.

But if you’ve done years of therapy and still can’t settle, still startle at sudden sounds, still feel that low hum of dread for no reason you can name?

You haven’t failed at healing. You’ve just been trying to think your way out of something that lives in your body.

Here’s what matters:
That flinch, that tension, that shutdown - it’s not you being broken.
It’s you still surviving a threat that already passed.

Your body doesn’t need to be fixed. It needs to be convinced - slowly, gently, in a language deeper than words - that the danger is over.

This is why somatic work exists. Not to replace talking therapy, but to finish what talking alone can’t complete. To move what’s stuck. To discharge what never got released. To give your nervous system a different experience - not just a different story about the experience.

The healing isn’t in understanding why you are the way you are.

It’s in giving your body proof that it can rest now. Again and again.
Until safety stops being a concept and becomes a felt sense.

#TraumaHealing #SomaticTherapy #NervousSystemRegulation #TraumaRecovery #SomaticHealing

By Wednesday, she can feel it building.

The tension. The jaw clenching. The thoughts racing faster than she can catch them.

By Thursday afternoon, she needs it.

That’s why she walks through the door every Thursday at 6:30pm.

Not because she has to. Because her body knows what happens when she doesn’t.

The tension creeps back. The shoulders climb toward her ears. The calm slips away.

Ninety minutes where she doesn’t have to be anything except present.

No performance. No fixing. No doing it “right.”

Just gentle movement that releases what her body’s been holding.
Breathwork that tells her nervous system it’s safe.
Deep rest that actually restores.
Cacao to close the circle.

She leaves different than she arrived. Slower. Grounded. Back in her body.

And every week, she remembers: this is what calm feels like.

Settle the Storm isn’t a one-time thing. It’s a practice. A rhythm. A weekly return to yourself.

Because your nervous system doesn’t need a miracle. It needs consistency.

Every Thursday, 6:30-8pm
Our Lady Immaculate Parish Centre, Newmarket
£10 drop-in

No booking required. Just show up.

This is your weekly permission to land.

www.bookwhen.com/ashwildhealing

#settleandstorm #nervousystem #somatichealing #rest #embodiment

January has been quietly exquisite ✨

Soft light on wooden floors.
Mats laid like invitations.
Candles flickering while bodies remember how to arrive.

These workshops and classes haven’t been about pushing or fixing —
they’ve been about listening.
About slowing enough to feel what’s already here.
About community, warmth, and the relief of not having to hold it all alone.

Thank you to everyone who stepped into the circle this month —
for your presence, your courage, your tenderness.
This is what winter is for.

#somatictherapy #wellness #ashwildhealing #mindbodyspirit #breathwork

We’re still in the depths of winter.

The season when nature rests. When the earth is quiet. When everything slows down to restore.

But somehow, January arrives with this pressure to do the opposite.

Push harder. Start fresh. Transform yourself. Go, go, go.

What if that’s exactly backwards?

What if January - this deep, dark, quiet month - is actually asking you to slow down?

To ground. To settle. To let your nervous system finally rest.

Your body has been running on overdrive. Maybe for months. Maybe longer.

And the answer isn’t more doing. It’s permission to stop.

That’s what Reclaim is for.
Saturday 24th January. Two hours to work with the season, not against it.

❄️Gentle somatic movement to ground back into your body.
🌟Breathwork to calm what’s been racing.
❄️Deep rest to replenish what’s been depleted.
🌟A letting go ritual to release what winter is ready to compost.
❄️Cacao and stillness to close.

Not about becoming someone new.
About becoming more yourself.

The version of you that’s rested. Grounded. Regulated.
The version that’s ready for what comes next - not from depletion, but from fullness.

📍 Our Lady Immaculate Parish Centre, Newmarket

⏰ Saturday 24th January, 10:30am-12:30pm

💷 Early bird £20 (until Jan 10) | £25 after

**Limited to 15 people.**

Winter is for restoration. Let’s honour that.
www.bookwhen.com/ashwildhealing

#reclaim #winter #nervousystem #rest #grounding

Your body’s been screaming at you.

Tight shoulders. Clenched jaw. Breath you barely notice anymore.
You’re exhausted but wired. Burnt out but can’t switch off.

Your nervous system is stuck in overdrive. And scrolling, wine, or another Netflix binge isn’t going to fix it.

What you need is to actually land in your body.

✨ That’s what Settle the Storm is for.

Every Thursday evening, this is your sanctuary. 90 minutes where you don’t have to perform, push through, or be anything other than exactly where you are.

What happens:
Gentle movement to ground in your body and release tension (no performance, no pushing)
Breathwork to calm your nervous system
Deep guided relaxation that actually works
Cacao ceremony to close

No experience needed. No flexibility required. Just permission to rest.

Every Thursday starting 15th January | 6:30-8pm
Our Lady Immaculate Parish Centre, Newmarket
Drop-in £10 or
Book: www.bookwhen.com/ashwildhealing

Your nervous system will thank you.

#somatictherapy #nervoussystemhealing #healyourself #movementismedicine #movement

To the mother who’s lost herself in the doing:

You’ve fed, soothed, changed, rocked, and held.
You’ve barely slept.
You’ve smiled through it while your body aches and your mind races.

And somewhere along the way, you disappeared.

The Postpartum Reset isn’t about bouncing back.
It’s about coming home — to the body you’re learning to live in now.

This 8-week Thursday morning program is for mothers navigating the parts of postpartum nobody warns you about:
The rage that comes out of nowhere.
The overwhelm of loving your baby while desperately needing space.
The exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix.
The disconnect from a body that feels foreign.

What we’ll explore together:
🌿 Slow somatic movement to release what you’re holding
🌿 Breathwork for when you can’t catch your breath
🌿 Nervous system regulation (because you’re stuck in survival mode)
🌿 The hard truths: rage, identity loss, the contradictions
🌿 Community with other mothers who get it
🌿 Tea, snacks, and actually being nourished for once

Babies welcome (0-12 months). Because childcare isn’t always possible — and your healing shouldn’t wait. If your child is older and you really want to attend, drop me a message and we can discuss.

8 weeks. Thursday mornings. 9-10am.
Starts January 15th.
Limited to 10 mothers.

This is repair, not performance.
You don’t need to be fixed.
You need to be held.

Our Lady Immaculate Parish Centre, Newmarket

Investment:
8-week block: £80 (recommended)
Drop-in: £12

Priority will be given to those who have booked blocks or multiple classes.
Book: www.bookwhen.com/ashwildhealing

More info: www.ashwildhealing.co.uk

#postpartum #postpartumrecovery #postpartumhealing #newmum #motherhood

Burnout. Overwhelm. Anxiety. Your body’s been holding it all. January is when you start letting it go

The new year doesn’t need a new you — but it might need some space to breathe. Come home to your body.

This January, Ashwild is opening three ways to release what you’ve been carrying and reconnect with your body as a place of safety, ease, and thriving.

🕯️ Settle the Storm
Thursday Evenings | 6:30-8pm | Starting Jan 15th
A weekly sanctuary to release the weight of your day. Slow somatic movement, breathwork, deep relaxation, cacao ceremony. Not yoga. Not fitness. Just permission to rest.
Drop-in £10 | Class passes available

🌱 The Postpartum Reset
Thursday Mornings | 9-10am | 8-week block starts Jan 15th
An 8-week journey back to your body after birth. Somatic movement, breathwork, nervous system regulation, and the hard truths nobody talks about (the rage, the overwhelm, the contradictions). Babies welcome (0-12 months).
8-week block £80 | Drop-in £12

✨ Reclaim Workshop
Saturday Jan 24th | 10:30am-12:30pm
Step out of survival mode and into your body. A 2-hour somatic workshop with movement, deep relaxation, letting go ritual, cacao & refreshments.
Early bird £20 (until Jan 10) | £25 after

All sessions at Our Lady Immaculate Parish Centre, Newmarket

Trauma-informed. Accessible. No experience needed. All bodies welcome.

📖 Learn more: www.ashwildhealing.co.uk

🎟️ Book your spot: www.bookwhen.com/ashwildhealing

#newmarket #suffolk #cambridgeshire #somaticmovement #wellnessclasses

"What even is somatic movement?"

Fair question. Here's the truth:

Your body has been keeping score.
Every stress you white-knuckled through.
Every emotion you swallowed.
Every moment you kept it together when you wanted to fall apart.

It's all still there. In your shoulders. Your jaw. Your hips. Your breath.

Talking about it helps.

But it doesn't complete the cycle.

Your body needs to move it. Release it. Let it go.

That's somatic movement.

Not yoga. Not fitness. Not about getting it "right."

Just slow, intentional movement that:

→ Reconnects you to sensation

→ Releases what you've been holding

→ Teaches your nervous system it's safe to settle

This is the work we do at Ashwild.

Because you can't think your way into feeling safe in your body.

You have to move there.

Classes start next week:

Settle the Storm - Thursday 6:30pm (deep rest + regulation)

Postpartum Reset - Thursday 9am (for mothers with babies 0-12 months)

Winter is for grounding. This is how.

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I watched the snake shed its skin last year.

Not all at once. Slowly. Uncomfortably. One scale at a time.

That’s what this year felt like for so many of us, wasn’t it? The shedding. The letting go. The moving through darkness wondering if we’d come out the other side.

We did.

Now the horse year is here. And I’ve been thinking about horses — how they don’t question whether they’re ready to move. They just go. Steady. Grounded. Powerful in their rhythm.

But here’s what the wellness industry won’t tell you:
You don’t become the horse by buying the right planner, signing up for the perfect course, or promising yourself you’ll meditate for 30 minutes every single day starting January 1st.

You become the horse by never missing twice.

I learned this from a podcast that stopped me in my tracks. Chris Williamson talking about how we’re all trying to sprint when what we actually need is to stack one small thing onto what we’re already doing.

Like this:
You already make coffee in the morning.
What if you put your hand on your heart while the kettle boils? That’s it. Three seconds.

You already get in the car.
What if you take three deep breaths before you turn the key?

You already have a phone you pick up first thing.
What if, just once, you looked at the world before you looked at the screen

Tiny improvements compound.
One breath becomes ten.
Ten becomes a habit.
A habit becomes your nervous system remembering: I’m safe. I can slow down.

The 9-year cycle is complete. You’ve already survived the shedding.
This year isn’t about becoming someone new.

It’s about moving like the horse — consistent, grounded, honouring the momentum you’ve already built.

You don’t need fixing.
You need presence.
And that starts with one breath.

Right now.

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Boxing Day arrives like an exhale you didn’t know you were holding.

The glitter has settled. The magic has landed. And what remains is your body—asking, quietly or loudly, to be allowed to feel what it actually feels.

This is the day the nervous system starts to speak.

The crash after the adrenaline.
The grief that waited until it was safe.
The relief that you survived something beautiful and hard all at once.

Your body held so much:
The sensory overload of too much noise, too many people, too much brightness.
The emotional labor of managing everyone else’s experience.
The performance of joy even when your system was screaming for quiet.

And now—in the stillness between what was and what comes next—you get to stop holding.

This is where the real work of motherhood lives.
Not in the magic-making.
In the coming-back-to-yourself after.
If your system is still buzzing—it makes sense.

If you need to cry for no reason—there’s a reason.

If you feel hollow after feeling so full—that’s the body processing what it carried.

Here’s to the day after.
The one nobody photographs.
The one where healing isn’t sparkly—it’s slow, messy, honest.
Your worth was never in how well you performed Christmas.
It’s in how you return to yourself after.
Settle. Soften. Let your nervous system land.

The storm has passed.
You’re still here.
That’s the magic.

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