In this episode, Laura explores triggers and transference — why do we get triggered and what can we do about it? Not just on the yoga mat, but in everyday life, relationships, parenting, and work. Using yoga philosophy, psychology, and lived experience, we unpack why certain people and situations activate us so deeply, how early experiences shape our sense of worth, and why love can start to feel conditional. We look at self-actualisation, nervous system responses, and how healing happens when we move from external validation to internal authority. This episode is an invitation to meet your triggers with curiosity rather than shame, and to see relationships as powerful opportunities for awareness, growth, and repair.

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In this episode, Laura shares a very personal and pragmatic reflection on the decision to close Soul Sanctuary after 12 years. A studio closing email can only say so much, here Laura speaks openly about the reality of running a heart-led business, the emotional and financial challenges that come with owning a yoga studio, and the lessons I’ve learned along the way. This is an honest conversation about perseverance, knowing when to let go, choosing family, and redefining success — shared for anyone who has ever built something with love, struggled behind the scenes, or had to make a difficult but necessary decision to honour their truth.

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In this solo episode, I explore February as a threshold, a moment where long-held inner processes give way to decisive outer movement.

We close the Year of the Wood Snake, a Yin year of shedding, strategy, and quiet preparation, and step into the Year of the Fire Horse, a rare and volatile Yang-fire cycle that accelerates destiny, visibility, courage, and change.

This episode weaves together astrology, elemental wisdom, nervous system awareness, and collective symbolism to help you understand not just what is happening — but how to move through it without burning out.

In this episode, we explore:

• What the Year of the Wood Snake has been asking of us (and why it may have felt slow, heavy, or confusing)
• Why the Fire Horse year brings acceleration, risk, leadership, and bold movement
• Saturn entering Aries — and why Saturn is in detriment here
• Neptune moving into Aries and the end of a long, foggy spiritual era
• The rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries and what it signals collectively
• Why the last Saturn–Neptune conjunction coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall
• War symbolism, remembrance, and the poppy as a collective archetype
• The Solar Eclipse and New Moon in Aquarius on 17 February
• Aquarius themes of systems, community, responsibility, and the future
• Burnout as the shadow of Fire Horse energy
• Drishti: focus as destiny in a year where fire must be directed
• How to move from performance into mission

This is an episode about clarity, courage, and conscious initiation.

February asks us to stop waiting for certainty, and to begin acting from what we already know.

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In this episode, we explore the yogic principle of Saucha — often translated as cleanliness or purity — and why it has very little to do with perfection, and everything to do with clarity.

Saucha is one of the Niyamas in yoga, but it’s not a rule or a discipline. It’s an invitation to notice what we’re carrying — physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically — and what is quietly asking to be released.

We talk about how Saucha applies not just on the yoga mat, but in everyday life: in our homes, our bodies, our minds, our relationships, our digital worlds and even our patterns of worry.

This is a conversation about clearing space so life can move through us more freely.

In this episode, we explore:

• What Saucha really means in yoga (and why ‘purity’ is a misleading translation)
• The body as a vessel: food, energy and clarity
• Clutter, the home and energetic space
• Mental clutter, overthinking and thought hygiene
• Energetic attachments, boundaries and cord clearing — grounded and accessible
• Why worry is not care, but energetic pollution
• Social media, information overload and digital Saucha
• Email inboxes, unsubscribing and unfinished energetic loops
• Astrology and Saucha: how working with the Moon helps with energetic and emotional hygiene.

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In this episode, we explore drishti — the yogic practice of focusing the gaze — and how it extends far beyond the mat into the way we live, choose, pray, and create.

Drishti is not just about where the eyes look, but about where our energy, attention, and devotion are placed. In a world that constantly pulls at our focus, drishti becomes a spiritual practice of simplification, clarity, and conscious choice.

We talk about how focus itself can become prayer — how our actions, choices, and commitments can turn everyday life into a moving offering. This episode invites you to examine where your gaze is going — and whether it truly deserves your life force.

As we look ahead to the Year of the Fire Horse and the wider shifts of collective consciousness, we reflect on what it means to live with clarity, devotion, and openness, becoming vessels for what wants to move through us, rather than scattering ourselves across what doesn’t matter.

This is an episode about focus as devotion, discipline as freedom, and life as prayer.

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As we reach the end of the Year of the Wood Snake, we pause to honour what has been shed.

The Snake teaches us about quiet transformation—about loss, endings, and the slow, sometimes uncomfortable process of releasing skins that no longer fit. This year may have asked you to let go of identities, roles, relationships, or timelines you once thought were essential. Not as punishment—but as preparation.

In this episode, we reflect on what the Snake has helped you compost: the habits, beliefs, and attachments that would only weigh you down moving forward.

Because what’s coming next is very different.

The Fire Horse arrives with speed, courage, and raw life force. It asks for authenticity, momentum, and bold alignment with your true purpose. But the Horse cannot be ridden while carrying the old armour. You cannot gallop forward while gripping what belongs to the past.

This episode is an invitation to:

• Grieve what has ended
• Name what you are no longer available for
• Release what would hold you back
• And consciously choose what you are taking with you into the fire

This is about clearing the path—not rushing ahead.
So when the Horse comes, you’re ready to ride.

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This solo episode with Becky is a bonus episode - it's an excerpt from a recent ceremony Becky hosted for charity online at the beginning of December.

The words work beyond the mind, speaking directly to the body, the nervous system, and the soul.

You may be called to listen in stillness, to lie down, to close your eyes, or simply to let the transmission wash over you.

Enjoy x

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As the year comes to a close, Becky and I sit down to reflect on what 2025 has asked of us — and what it’s taught us about our capacity to change and adapt. We talk honestly about forced action, big decisions, and the slow shift away from self-sacrifice, resentment, and quiet martyrdom toward choosing dharma: following what feels true, energising, and alive, rather than what looks good on the outside. We explore how old patterns have fallen away — over-giving, collapsed boundaries, perfectionism, performing and proving — and what it’s been like to stop explaining ourselves and start trusting the path we’re on.

Much of this conversation centres on nervous system healing and redefining success. Choosing regulation over achievement, presence over pressure, and emotional safety over being liked. We reflect on how our work and businesses seem to grow only as fast as our nervous systems can hold, and how clarity comes when we protect what matters, simplify, and trust ourselves a little more. This episode is a gentle end-of-year pause — honouring what’s ended, what we’re carrying forward, and the quieter confidence of stepping into what’s next.

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