Self Care Conversations Episode 2 from Jane Hardy on Vimeo. The Power of Yoga and Voice with Nicky West.
I hope everyone is keeping well. It was wonderful to be interviewed by Jane Hardy from https://bodymastery.studio last week about self-care during this time of isolation. I hope you enjoy. She has regular interviews happening at the moment all around different ways to approach self-care.
I moved my classes and most of my one to one clients online on March 23rd. It's lifted us all to...
I sat outside on my deck, enjoying some winter sun, deep in thought when BAM a ‘Quoll’ jumped up, right in front of me. We were eye to eye. I stayed completely still, in awe, then took a photo when I saw his leg injury. The Quoll seemed to be looking at me and but was likely sniffing me or food out in the air. I phoned Wires (The Wildlife Rescue service here) and kept an eye out to see if he would come back. He hasn’t as far as I know, despite...
I’m not sure why but I desperately wanted to visit Australia during my early teens. At 16 yrs old, I borrowed a book from the library with offers for ‘jobs abroad’. Sat in my bedroom clutching the book, I carefully hand wrote letters to various fruit picking farms all over Australia.
Amazingly I got a letter back from somewhere in Western Australia offering me a job! I remember the excitement, although there was one big problem. I needed permission...
Here's part 2 of Wollombi Spoken Word night. Enjoy xo
Part 1
Performing some of my writing at an open mic night on 1st December 2018 in Wollombi. Always good to do something that scares/challenges/stretches you a little once a year or more! This was one of mine to close out 2018 along with camera wobbles and colour balance craziness! What’s yours? There’s still time… little steps and celebration are two things worth cultivating, little steps because we’re always making progress (even if it feels...
Connect to your power
The power of your voice
The kindness
The fierceness
The privilege of that choice
Connect to your power
The power of listening
Hear the whispering of your heart
Intuition is your art
Connect to your power
The power of your mind
To hold opposing views
To be kind in our judgements
To be kind in the blues
To remind our sweet mind
That it doesn’t control you
Connect to your power
The power of your soul
This has no words
Trust in the unknown
Trust...
I decided this year was going to be about showing up. To be honest I previously avoided this phrase, to me it meant putting on a song and dance whilst being everywhere at once all shiny and happy. Of course, it doesn’t have to mean anything of the sort. Life isn’t like that, there are rhythms and cycles with the result that our best intentions going AWOL at times.
We’re more than halfway through the...
I want to live in a world where women feel safe,
to be who we are
without shame or disgrace.
To reclaim past suffering
as power & strength.
To laugh in a cacophony
in circles, in tents,
wherever we gather
to nourish our roots,
to be seen & heard
our thirst quenched with fruits;
The fruits of our ancestors
seeds as they marched.
The flowers from centuries
of broken hearts.
The tears that have watered
those seeds to grow
into choices, opportunities,
the privilege to show
their...
What is confidence really? I’ve been thinking about confidence, my own and others perception of what confidence is. To me, having more confidence is about self-trust, inner belief, courage and vulnerability. Which doesn’t mean everything will be perfect and turn out as expected, although it can. It’s more to do with having inner confidence or trust that we can handle it if things don’t go to plan.
I think we build resilience, trust and...
The wind was howling, my ears burning from the cold, I wrapped my woolly scarf and winter jacket tighter. I was walking along Westbourne Grove, a fairly busy shopping street in West London, on my way to get some food for dinner. ‘Help’ ‘Help me’ ‘Help!’ there was a man hanging onto a post on the pavement, swinging around it, trepidatiously, moving from the pavement into the road and back, his white hair standing upright from the wind, with a...
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