This month, I invite you into the element of air, and into something even more refined than that - space. This is the place of the heart. Not just the physical heart, but the energetic centre of Anahata. The space where breath moves freely. Where we meet ourselves and others with a little more gentleness. Where we begin to soften the edges we have been holding so tightly.

As we move deeper into March, our yoga practice continues to explore the fire element. Fire is often associated with energy, effort, and transformation. In yoga philosophy it relates to Manipura chakra, the centre of digestion and inner power. When we hear the word digestion, most of us immediately think of food. But the yogic understanding of digestion is much broader than that.

In yoga philosophy, the body is shaped and sustained by Prana – a life force that can be described as intelligent energy. Prana expresses itself through two intertwined qualities: shiva-prana, the guiding intelligence, and shakti-prana, the animating power.

The water element shapes this month of practice. Not as something to master or direct, but as something to listen to. Water doesn’t force change. It adapts, yields, and finds its way through what already exists. After the stillness and weight of earth, February offers a gentle thaw - a softening of edges, a return to sensation, and a renewed relationship with feeling.

At the heart of Imbolc stands Brigid – luminous, many-layered, impossible to pin down to a single role or meaning. She is a goddess of thresholds and beginnings, of hearth and forge, poetry and prayer. She belongs as much to the home as to the wild places. There are more stories about Brigid than I could write in a day. And at Imbolc, she walks close.

A New Moon always asks us to pause. It is the dark of the lunar cycle, when nothing is visible yet, and everything is possible. A moment before momentum. A breath held in the body before movement begins. When the New Moon arrives in Capricorn, that pause becomes deeply earthy and deliberate. As January's theme is the earth element, I couldn't let this new moon go unmarked.

The earth element will shape the first month of teaching this year - not as a concept to analyse, but as something to inhabit, slowly and honestly. January doesn’t ask for expansion or reinvention. Instead, it offers weight, depth, and the quiet reassurance of what already exists. Earth will become our steady companion: present in the pauses between movements, in the deliberate pace of practice, and in the way we return again and again to simple, familiar shapes.

Chakras are often mentioned in yoga spaces, but rarely explained in a way that feels simple, grounded, or relevant to real life. This short introduction is for complete beginners — whether you practise yoga or not. We’ll explore what chakras are, why they matter, and how they offer a compassionate way of understanding our bodies, emotions and inner lives, without anything being “blocked” or broken.

When life feels unsettled, we often find ourselves pulled upwards — into the busyness of the mind, the racing of the heart, the shallows of the breath.

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