Yogini BearFoot Yoga

02/07/2025

🌿 Learn to Rest, Not Quit

Feeling tired, scattered, or overwhelmed? It’s okay to press pause. Yoga teaches us something profound: rest isn’t a weakness, it’s wisdom.

🌿When you step onto your mat, it’s not about forcing or performing. It’s about listening. Some days, that means holding a Warrior pose with fierce strength. Other days, it’s surrendering into Child’s Pose and letting your breath lead the way.

In yoga and in life, rest is part of the journey, not the end of it. Recovery helps us heal, reset, and return stronger. Gentle stretches, mindful breathing, and restorative postures release tension, calm the mind, and restore clarity, especially when the world feels a little too loud.

But yoga isn’t just about rest….it’s also a powerful practice to sharpen your focus and reconnect with what matters.

Here’s how yoga helps you stay centred and present—even in the midst of chaos:

🌀 Yoga for Mental Focus
• Breath awareness anchors you to the now.
• Balancing poses train your mind to concentrate.
• Forward folds soothe stress, backbends boost brain function, and restorative poses offer deep clarity.
• Meditation and pranayama (like Alternate Nostril Breathing or Bhramari) calm your nervous system and enhance mental sharpness.

✨ Mindfulness Tools You Can Try Today
• Drishti: Hold your gaze on a fixed point to quiet the mind.
• Trataka: Candle gazing builds stillness and mental stamina.
• Yoga Nidra: A guided rest that leaves you renewed and refocused.

Remember: taking time to pause isn’t giving up. It’s choosing to honour your energy, your needs, your growth.

So next time life feels a bit too much, breathe. Move gently. Sit still. Take 5 or 50 minutes. Whether it’s a balancing pose or a moment of stillness, you’ll be amazed what shifts when you choose rest over resistance.

You’ve got this. On the mat and in the world. 💛

Love to you,
Indië Rose
xoxo

01/07/2025

🌞 Hello July: Body, Mind & Being in Balance 🌿
A New Chapter Begins…

Yogi friends, what a powerful, energy-rich start to July! 🔥🧘🏼‍♀️Thank you for letting me walk this journey with you,it’s a true privilege to guide, share, and grow together in this sacred space.

This month, we invite balance into our lives,not just physically, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. With the new moon’s reset and the lushness of summer, July feels like a soul-deep invitation to realign, to breathe deeper, and to reconnect with what matters most.

There’s magic in practicing yoga outdoors: bare feet on the earth, sun on your skin, and OM ॐ resonating with the wind. As Amit Ray says,
“Om is not just a sound or vibration… It is the core of our very existence.”
Whether on the mat, in the wild, or online, that sacred sound reminds us: we are part of something greater.

✨ Big News from Haus Of Yoga & AYA!
We’re stepping into an exciting new era of connection and transformation…

💻 New Website Launching This Month
Our fresh digital home is going Be Yoga Live!, streaming classes into the MettaVerse and opening up access to our Digital Kula from anywhere in the world.

🧘🏼‍♀️ Online & In-Person Courses
Now you can join us wherever you are. Practice at your own pace with guided sessions, or come and move with us in the studio or outdoors.

🌱 6-Week ROOT 2 RISE Programme Begins 13th July
Ground, grow, and rise with this deeply transformative journey for body, mind, and soul. You’ll build strength, align your energy, and rise into your most radiant self.

🌿 Outdoor Yoga Returns – Saturday 5th July
Rewild!!!! Meet Me On The Earth 🌍 come & flow with us under the open sky. There’s no substitute for feeling the elements as you breathe, move, and align.

🎙️ YTNT Podcast Launch: Yoga;The Naked Truth
Authentic, real, and filled with heart, our podcast brings honest conversations and soulful insights straight from my journey to your earballs & now eyeballs!

📺 YouTube & Streaming Content
From meditation and yogasana to OM chanting and Ayurveda, our new digital library means you can practice with us anytime inspiration strikes.

🌟 This Season’s Signature Theme:
❄️Winter Bodies are Made in Summer☀️
From now through mid-September, we’re inviting you to nurture the version of you that wants to emerge. Not just the physical🪷you’ll be tending your energetic body, emotional landscape, and spiritual centre too. This is your time to be fully, unapologetically YOU.

🔮 This Month’s Focus: Balance, Self-Care & Connection
Let’s embody the niyamas:
• Saucha (purity)
• Santosha (contentment)
• Tapas (discipline)
• Svadhyaya (self-study)
• Isvara Pranidhana (surrender)

We’ll be exploring chakra alignment, pranayama, yoga nidra, energy protection, and more. Every session is an invitation to come home to yourself.

💫 Awaken | Evolve | Flow
This season, I encourage you to move through these 3 sacred steps:

🔹 Awaken – Check in: Are you balanced in your work, play, rest, and relationships?
🔹 Evolve – Listen within: What is your body, your heart, your soul asking for?
🔹 Flow – Take aligned action: Breathe, move, meditate, express, rest.

✨ Meet Me… Where You Are
• 🌍 Online:
From the MettaVerse to your living room
• 💫 On The Mat:
In-person at Haus Of Yoga & Anavrin Yoga Academy

• 🌿 On The Earth:
Outdoor sessions weekly through summer

We are a living, breathing community - A Kula and you belong where you feel seen, heard & accepted.

💗 Final Thought…
July is for recharging and realigning. Let’s reflect on where we’ve come from, celebrate how far we’ve grown, and set powerful intentions for where we’re going.

What’s your feel-good ritual this season? Tell me below, I love hearing how you’re nourishing your light.

We rise by lifting one another.
We heal by honoring our whole being.
We grow when we’re brave enough to show up as ourselves.

Meet me on the mat. Meet me in the wild. Meet me in the MettaVerse.
Together, let’s rise, shine, and flow into this new chapter.

love always,
Indië Rose
xoxo
The Yogini Bear 🧘🏼‍♀️🌸

24/06/2025

This summer! Love yourself through finding your foundation in Yoga!

🥰 Be Yoga this summer!

19/06/2025

🎉✨Waking up in Italy's postcard-perfect landscapes today feels like wrapping myself in a cosy blanket of serenity. Our Summer Solstice celebrations take on a Mediterranean vibes in 2025 with my sweet friend : Elena of Soul of the Earth, the ‘AWAKENING THE WOLF WITHIN’ retreat being all about personal growth, and I'm ready to dive in.

🇮🇹First up? Yoga!

It's the ultimate brain and body booster. With the sky promising endless blue, I'm eager to uncover the city's secrets and my own.
This adventure is a reminder of the magic in hitting pause to recharge and see life from a new angle.

While self-discovery doesn't demand a passport, this sunny escape is a chance to refresh and bond with fellow seekers of rejuvenation under the Italian sun.
☀️

17/06/2025

🎉🧘🏼‍♀️ BEGINNERS Aerial Yoga🧘🏼🎉
Get Your Asana In the Air! 🪁 🧘🏼‍♀️

It’s time to Sky Flow and not just physically.

Go beyond the mat and evolve within. 🌱 Our new Aerial Yoga sessions are designed to help you learn, grow, and flow in a way that feels light, freeing, and most importantly…. fun! 🤸🏻‍♂️
Nervous?

I have seen people change their entire mental being in the experiences that take them out of their comfort zone -
🧘🏼‍♀️✨You may have heard me say:
When the world feels upside down; Feet up!
It works! But if the literal flipping fills you with dread, there are options for you to create the experience your way so you can evolve at your own pace. This session is there to help you build trust in yourself and your practice. I love my hammock - and the restful lightness resonates for days after.

Yoga isn’t about doing the poses, it’s about mindfully moving so that you can Be Yoga. 🧘🏼‍♀️

That’s why we use props; they support us, guide us, and invite us to experience every moment of our practice more deeply. The aerial hammock is like an extension of your body, giving you the freedom to float, twist, and stretch, while also offering a gentle hug when you need it. Think of it as your ‘go go gadget’ body parts.

So….
🗓️ 6th July
⏰Session Times:
- 9:00 am
- 1015 am
- 430 pm
- 545pm
-7pm
Book here:
📱 bit.ly/anavrinapp

Whether you’re completely new to yoga or just curious about the aerial world, this is the perfect space for you to learn and flow at your own pace. There’s no pressure – just playful exploration and a whole lot of laughter. 🪁✨

📝A little reminder: Aerial yoga might not be for everyone. If you’re pregnant (it’s a no always ), have certain health conditions, or are recovering from an injury, we recommend checking in with your doctor before joining. By attending, you confirm that you’re suitable for the class and agree that Anavrin and its wonderful team can’t be held legally responsible for any mishaps. (But we’re confident you’ll be just fine!) 😌

So, ready to Resolve to Evolve?
It’s time to get your Asana in the air and have fun doing it. 💫

Who’s in?!
Meet me in the AER!
Indië Rose
xoxo

23/05/2025

Do you struggle standing in one place for too long? Itching to keep moving, achy joints and muscles, poor posture?
Well then, Saturdays upcoming 📺🎥YOUTUBE video is for you my love!
Tadasana; the pose of connection and grounding is Every. Single. Pose. and can help you Root 2 Rise this summer! 🌸☀️🦋☀️🌸

Especially important since, well, How fast has this year ploughed on by thus far? Almost half done in a blink of an eye, don’t you think? 😂
We may not be able to slow time down but we can most certainly increase our down time to be present in the here and now.
CHOOSE ☀️Stay still, take it all in.
CHANCE 🌿You are the architect of your life
CHANGE 🦋 Resolve 2 Evolve
Become a part of the fabric of life rather than being wrapped up in it.
All through the wonderful mountain pose of TADASANA
Meet me where you are tomorrow on Anavrin YogaTube 📺🎥 to find the path to your Summer of Love 2025!
Who’s in?,

Indië Rose
xoxo

20/05/2025

♊️🌟✨ Gemini Season flows in 🌟✨♊️ (FULL POST ON Anavrin)
The twins - on Twosday! We cross over into late spring 🌸🌿
Well….This is part when the gate opens onto double pathways towards summer full of contrasts & energy….Will it be twice the fun, patience or an even alignment? ☀️ which one you walk is completely up to you!

Meet Gemini, the zodiac’s life of the party, sporting the Twins’ badge with pride! Born between May 21 and June 20, these lively souls are the chameleons of the zodiac, known for their quick wit and adaptability. Being part of a pair - individuals of this star sign are truly the definition of change!

With Mercury, the cosmic chatterbox, as their guiding star, Geminis are naturally curious and soak up knowledge like a sponge, ready to dive into any conversation - remind you of anyone?😂😂😂😂 tag them in!
To be a Gemini is to be:
🌸Versatile:
Geminis dance through life’s changes, juggling tasks with the grace of a seasoned performer.
🗣️Communicative:
They’re the life of any social gathering, starring in roles that demand silver-tongued eloquence.
👩🏼‍🎓Intellectual:
Fueled by an endless quest for knowledge 🧠 , they’re always on the lookout for new adventures and insights.
Social butterflies 🦋 by nature, they network like pros. Their curiosity is the engine of their personal growth and self-discovery 🔍
🦸🏼‍♀️Adaptability gives them superhero resilience in the face of change. Often seen as having two sides, Geminis balance the real world and the mystical, blending logic with intuition. They’re the bridges between earthly tales and higher wisdom, using their gift of gab to enlighten and inspire. Embracing this duality lights their path to growth and enlightenment, benefiting themselves and everyone around them.

To know a Gemini, for anyone else, is to know frustration, uncertainty…stonking spontaneous bounce! They can flip flop on thoughts depending on who’s around and they can keep you on your toes…that’s why we love them right?! Double the trouble = Double the love too ♥️♥️

To ride the Gemini energy wave, keep your curiosity alive and embark on new adventures. Challenge your brain and engage in honest, open chats with those around you. Treasure your inner balance and let it guide you to greater spiritual awareness.

As the Sun enters Gemini on 20 May 2025, prepare for a season marked by curiosity, adaptability, duality, balance and vibrant communication!
This period invites you to explore new ideas and forge connections with others. Embrace life's duality by balancing logic with creativity and finding harmony between fun and seriousness - being both light and dark with self love & shadow work in purposeful harmony.

With the Sun ☀️ in Gemini, expect light-hearted conversations and a playful attitude to prevail, creating the perfect environment for sharing thoughts and expanding your knowledge. For those with Gemini influences in their astrological charts, anticipate a personal renewal that 🎉boosts confidence and enhances self-expression, leading to a period of growth and exploration.

During this time, the Moon transitions from ♒️ Aquarius to ♓️Pisces in its Last Quarter phase, encouraging the release of old habits to make way for fresh beginnings. Trust your intuition and remain alert to synchronicities as you navigate this exciting period. The Aquarius Moon promotes innovative thinking and a community focus, while the Pisces Moon enhances intuition and empathy, complementing Gemini's intellectual energy with spiritual awareness.

Key Themes:

🧠Mental Stimulation:
Quick thinking and enhanced communication take centre stage, offering insights and encouraging you to pay attention to intuitive signals.
🔃Duality:
Recognise patterns in life and embrace its contrasts, allowing for a deeper understanding of mirrored events.
🌱Renewal:
The Last Quarter Moon phase prompts the discarding of outdated beliefs or habits, making room for personal growth and new beginnings with the upcoming New Moon.
🫂Social Interaction and Play:
Enjoy laughter and share ideas with others, as engaging with others enhances spiritual growth and joy.
⚡️Embrace Change:
Follow your curiosity and explore new paths, trusting that new possibilities await discovery.

Celebrate the vibrant energy of Gemini season by allowing your curiosity to lead the way. Be open to new connections, pay attention to subtle signs, and let your spirit explore. Remember, each conversation, idea, and insight during this time contributes to your ongoing SELFolution. 🌟🌙

Love to you!
Indië Rose
xoxo

29/04/2025

Gorgeous sunsets are proof endings can also be beautiful 🌅

And perhaps what made her beautiful was not her appearance or what she achieved,
but in her love & courage and her audacity to believe, no matter the darkness around her.
Light ran wild within her and that was the way she came alive, and it showed up in everything. 🌸
•| ✍🏻 Tara Isis Gerris

Beach Yoga, meditation & self care are on the menu this week!

🌿🌸 May is just around the hawthorn corner…
The bridge between Spring & Summer, May is the perfect opportunity to shake loose the remaining debris of winter ❄️ to begin Being in the light of Summer and longer days once again ☀️

Let me help guide you!
🌷🌾31 Days of Yoga: 🌿MAYurveda
starts in just over 24hrs on my YouTube Channel:
📽️▶️ Anavrin Yoga
Daily videos for you to go where you flow so you can choose you : to Resolve to Evolve ♾️

Who’s in?

🪷Sat nam
Indië Rose
xoxo

20/04/2025

Let the Light Find You…
Open your heart. Even if it trembles.

There is something sacred about surrendering to the forest. About letting the Earth hold your feet as you rise, chest lifted to the skies, arms reaching back in trust.
Finding myself here wrapped in the green hush of the trees, my body curving into a heart-opening backbend, hands sculpted into Kali Mudra, a symbol of fierce feminine transformation.

This pose is an expression of devotion and courage.
A backbend Anuvittasana (Standing Backbend) softens the chest, expands the lungs, awakens the spine, and stretches the heart space wide open. It’s a bold invitation to let go of fear and to embody love not just receive it, but become it.

With palms interlaced, index fingers pointed in 🙏🏻Kali Mudra, to channel the energy of Goddess Kali, the remover of illusion, the fearless destroyer of all that keeps us small. This mudra empowers to cut through the darkness and let the light in. It’s about saying yes to transformation, even if it's wild and untamed.

How to embody this moment:
🌸Stand tall in Tadasana (Mountain Pose), grounding into Mother Earth.
🌳 Interlace your fingers and point the index fingers forward in 🙏🏻Kali Mudra, drawing your arms overhead.
🌸Press the hips gently forward as you lift through the heart, arching back with breath and grace.
🌳Let the head follow the curve of the spine, and soften the face.
🌙Breathe. Feel. Receive.

This is more than a shape, it’s declaration of surrender:
🗣️I am open. I am ready. I remember who I am.

🌳May you find a forest within yourself today, and may you open your heart wide enough for the light to come rushing in.

**raYoga

20/03/2025

Same message…different day ♥️
🌸🌷🌸Happy Spring my friends! 🌸🌷🌸

🌼 Welcome to Wednesday or bridge day
(midway from one end of the week to the weekend) at Anavrin! 🌼

Are you ready to Resolve to Evolve? Then let’s Flow & Glow my friends! Today’s Ordinary Yoga & Tapasaya 🔥 (I have to get a new name - it’s not olives 🫒 & cheese 🧀 😂) are perfect for resetting and reorganising mind, body & being.

As we embrace the beauty of spring, let's take a moment to connect our yoga practice with the energy of the season. Each Wednesday, we celebrate the arrival of new beginnings and the vibrant energy that comes with it or maybe just a check point to make sure we are not getting lost under the weight of the world so we can address these with self love.

🔍WHY?
Our hormones are on the change! So before you get as mad as a March hare 🐇 my ATYM™️ & Fluxology™️ approaches are going to help you root to rise with love! And we’ve been on this for a few weeks already with our YOGINI TEA ☕️ newsletters & classes.
Just as being affected by over thinking, you can influence your mind by finding balance within - it shouldn’t be focusing on tooting rainbows 🌈 and walking on sunbeams emitting a false sense of self - awareness of simple truths of your authentic needs over designation of your energy to things that deplete your soul is paramount for creating boundaries so those habits can be replaced with healthier ones.

💡HOW?
♦️🏡 Environment & the Root Chakra:
Just as spring brings renewal, so can a clean and organised space. Create an inviting environment that grounds you and invokes peace & ease - a feeling of being home.

🔶🗣️ Speech & the Sacral Chakra:
Embrace the power of positive language! What we say shapes our reality. Speak with intention and creativity to awaken your passions.

🔆Gratitude & the Solar Plexus Chakra:
As we flow through our practice, let gratitude fill your heart. Acknowledging the gifts in our lives boosts our confidence and personal power. You are a power house - I AM sentences, found within manipura changes minds and in turn hearts

🚥🫱🏻‍🫲🏼Social Connections & the Heart Chakra:
Surround yourself with uplifting souls. As we connect with others, we open our hearts to love and support, creating a nurturing kula - COMMUNItea.

🛜🎶 Music & the Throat Chakra:
Let the rhythm of inspiring melodies resonate within you. Singing and chanting can shift your frequency, allowing your true voice to shine.

☯️📺 Media Consumption & the Third Eye Chakra:
Be mindful of what you consume. Seek out enlightening content that expands your awareness and enhances your intuition.

💭👑Thoughts & the Crown Chakra:
Just like the blossoming flowers, our thoughts can open up our energy. Align your mind with a cup of POSITIVItea and watch your spirit soar!

Meet me on the mat soon, be a part of the wave of change as we flow through our yoga practice, aligning our energies and discovering balance during this confusing spirit of spring time!

Om Shanti 🫶🏻
Indië Rose
😘
xoxo

20/03/2025

Bore da Cariad ♥️ Happy Thursday!
🌸🌷SPRING HAS ARRIVED AND SHES BRINGING ALL THE FIRE & LOVE.🌷🌸
But! We move with grace and ease
💡Have you noticed tension or emotional heaviness as the seasons change?

At Anavrin, we're here to help you navigate these shifts. Our bodies, much like nature, aren't meant to be overworked throughout winter and early spring - we are supposed to rest. This causes internal discombobulation leading to SAD, physical issues affected by emotional states. It’s a constant battle for balance within.

As we transition through the 💧Kapha season in Ayurveda, feelings of sluggishness and congestion can arise. This is a time when the Kapha dosha is dominant, urging us to embrace rest and renewal.
👤Anthropologically, humans have evolved to sense a need for rest during this season. The reduced daylight and colder temperatures signal our bodies to slow down, conserving energy and encouraging introspection. Yet, as we enter the fire season of ♈️🔥Aries, there's a natural shift towards rekindling our energy and enthusiasm.

🫁🐾Would you like to breathe & move more easily and move with more freedom this Spring?

This can be things such as struggling with maintaining good posture, perhaps even tying your shoelaces, brushing your hair.

These seemingly simple actions can become challenging when our bodies are tight or misaligned. By addressing the hips and heart through yoga, especially with poses like Eka Pada Rajakapotasana III, we can alleviate tension and enhance our mobility.
To do this our focus is upon the use of props such as blocks, bolsters and straps to awaken gently around our sleepy DNA. 🧬

Our beautiful restorative yoga always takes you to a place of self love and awareness. I chose this kind of yoga for myself during my grieving which feels like the harshest of winters within,again through life my role is defined - I took my learning and applied to how I bring you yoga.
Restorative sessions are on a smaller scale so I can be with each of you throughout. Energy healing for your body while you absorb the pose and lightness with our therapeutic application of other signature elements for your experience.

In the words Shakira - The hips don’t lie!
🫶🏻Our hips are often referred to as emotional vaults, storing stress and trauma from our daily experiences. They hold onto the weight of unresolved feelings and physical discomfort, which can affect our overall well-being.
🫀Similarly, the heart is the epicentre of our emotional and spiritual being. When the heart and hips are out of harmony, it can manifest as emotional heaviness and physical limitations, impacting our posture and daily activities.

And so in our sessions we are all about Hips & ♥️
Embrace the transformative power of Eka Pada Rajakapotasana III (One-Legged King Pigeon Pose), a yoga practice focusing on the heart and hips, key areas where emotional tension often resides.

🧘🏼‍♀️This pose stretches the hip flexors, quadriceps, and chest, engages the core, and aligns the spine, contributing to better posture and reduced lower back tension. Emotionally, it fosters self-compassion and deeper connections, helping you feel lighter and more liberated.

The 'Why' of the Pigeon Pose:

💪🏻Muscles and Mobility
By stretching the hip flexors and quadriceps, this pose increases flexibility and reduces tension in the lower body. It also opens the chest, promoting better posture and alleviating strain on the lower back.
🌷Emotional Release
The hips are known to store emotional stress. This pose helps in releasing those emotions, allowing for a lighter, more connected feeling.
♥️Heart Openness
By focusing on the heart region, this pose encourages emotional and spiritual openness, fostering self-compassion and connection with others.

🛠️The 'How' of Performing This Pose:
🧱Props
Use foot straps, bolsters, and pillows to ensure proper alignment and deepen the pose. These tools help you honour your body's limits while expanding your range of motion.
〰️Variations
There are multiple ways to recreate this pose. It's not necessary to follow the version shown in pictures. Yoga, especially at Anavrin, is about fitting the practice to your body, not the other way around.

🌸As spring ushers in a season of shedding the old and welcoming the new, let us guide you in this renewal journey.

At Anavrin, we believe our growth mirrors the natural world. Just as trees 🌳 bloom anew, we evolve by embracing this season's energy. The increased daylight and warmer temperatures encourage us to emerge from introspection, akin to a baby deer finding its footing in the world. Additionally, our PowAER and AERelax sessions are designed to support this transformation, aligning with the fiery energy of 🔥Aries and the invigorating spirit of spring.

Meet me on the mat soon to move with us in honouring heart and hips, moving through spring with authenticity and grace.

Would you like to feel more energised, supported, and at ease? Check out our timetable or meet me where you are on our YouTube Channel with our current catch up lives.

As the poet Rumi beautifully said, "Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
Book in or message for more information!

Love to you,
Indië Rose
xox