Meet Susanna Edwards – Weblog

March 8, 2025

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Inform us a bit about your self…

All of us face challenges in life whether or not or not it’s the pressures of labor, monetary or relational challenges, physique and hormonal transformations similar to menopause or coping with psychological or bodily sickness, or with loss or grief.

I’ve lived with a persistent pelvic situation because the beginning of my daughter 13 years in the past and I’ve been on a journey of self discovery in mid-life. I’ve researched, lived and constructed a sturdy set of methods to navigate life with positivity, elevated capability to operate and embrace wellness in physique and thoughts and outlook. I now share my learnings with others.

My background is in artistic arts, though I’ve all the time practiced completely different types of yoga; Yin, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Ashtanga. I knew when the programs and constructions I operated inside weren’t serving me anymore, that my true path was to pivot and turn out to be a yoga trainer, to concentrate on this as my central observe and to make use of my previous expertise and information to reinforce this observe. That is after I arrange the Faculty of Inventive Wellness.

Creativity, educating and studying are in my DNA. By combining my previous experiences and expertise with yoga and breathwork I’ve created a singular enterprise. Disciplines merge, methods of noticing, seeing and understanding ourselves are explored in a holistic sense.

I exploit motion, breathwork and picture and textual content/writing based mostly artistic strategies to look at, course of and create, and I assist others to do the identical. It feels proper, a real calling in my mid-life.

What does a typical day appear like for you?

In the intervening time I’m placing collectively a brand new on-line providing ‘Breathe Straightforward for Menopause Mums.’ It’s based mostly on my expertise of menopause, mumming, working and burnout. Burnout can creep up on you. I do know so many ladies who’re beneath such stress in midlife, juggling careers, parenting, taking care of ailing mother and father and hitting perimenopause all on the identical time. I need to share the strategies that helped me and share preventative strategies to keep away from burnout. This providing is a brief, straightforward to digest on-line breathwork course to assist girls develop a every day observe of anchoring, respiratory and studying to self regulate their nervous programs. There are three every day pranayama video practices to observe if you wake, at lunchtime and earlier than mattress. It’s arduous to take time and house for self with a number of every day calls for, it’s also arduous to create new habits so I’m there in a pleasant, useful and bitesized means as a supply of studying, of consolation and of creating new strategies to dwell by.

I train on-line and in individual a number of days every week Yin, Restorative and extra dynamic Hatha/ Vinyasa based mostly lessons, I’ve non-public shoppers and a beautiful group of standard girls who attend every week, ages vary from 12 to 88. I stroll on a regular basis with my two Cockapoos Bennie & Pickle and being in nature on a regular basis is tremendous essential for me. I additionally meet up with different artists and wellness practitioners to plan and ship pop up occasions and experiences. I can also be working a retreat or volunteering at a neighborhood market backyard known as Worthy Earth. It’s also essential for me to be current every day with my household, my daughter, my mum and my companion and to snort, not take life too critically.

At this time I went for a sauna and swim in a lake on non-public land in Hampshire at Fallen Willow Sauna (considered one of my collaborators). I’ve just lately purchased a rebounder so the day usually begins with a bounce. After I attended the wonderful Aryveda sequence of lessons on this Yoga Issues neighborhood I found my Kapha predominant dosha likes to begin the day with bouncing to get every part flowing and to keep away from stagnation and sluggishness.

Principally I do what feels good and worth issues similar to time, nature, studying and neighborhood having stepped away from the grind tradition and feeling like I used to be by no means ‘sufficient’.

How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to turn out to be a yoga trainer?

I’ve practiced since my early 20s and I’m now 48. My first ardour and studying was in Iyengar. I actually received into the precision of it and went a number of occasions to India on Yoga and Ayuvedic retreats. I felt an actual pull to turn out to be a yoga trainer in my mid to late 20s however I used to be rising a vibrant profession in arts and design schooling and creating my very own design observe. I dabbled with several types of yoga through the years, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Restorative and Yin. Yin turned an enormous a part of my life in 2018 and over the next two years I might go to a category with my Mum taught by a tremendous trainer Daphne. She battled with most cancers on and off for years and used Yin to assist others with most cancers or caring for others with most cancers. Sadly she handed away a couple of years in the past however her voice and spirit is etched inside me. My Dad was recognized with Mesothelomia (asbestos associated) most cancers and Daphne and her lessons helped us by way of a very arduous time. After Dad died in 2020 I hit burnout and went on a journey of unravelling and of complete recalibration. I labored on rediscovering my pleasure and reprioritising what I wanted, beloved and desired in my life. Yoga was a every day should, alongside residing extra in tune with nature and my creativity and creating house in my life for household. A interval of unlearning and relearning occurred and is ongoing. So I retrained as a yoga trainer and right here I’m completely loving what I do and feeling effectively and rooted and persevering with my path and keenness of educating however in new methods, methods which might be pertinent to our occasions and sharing the instruments and strategies that labored for me. Residing authentically and listening to what I want.

What impressed you to concentrate on your observe?

Though I skilled beneath Lucas Rockwood at Yoga Physique (Barcelona), the place the coaching was scientifically pushed, and the fashion was vinyasa based mostly I’ve undertaken additional coaching in Yin, Restorative, Yoga Nidra and additional utilized anatomy & physiology of yoga. I’ve additionally skilled within the Science of Wellbeing (Yale College) and have attended a number of artistic brief programs, an Accelerating Girls’s Enterprise programme by the Faculty of Social Entrepreneurs. Alongside my very own journey of therapeutic with CBT, Trauma and Bereavement counselling. I’ve labored with various therapies similar to CST (Cranio Sacral Remedy) which for me discovered wonderful ends in releasing buried trauma and my womb. I actually take a look at wellness from a holistic perspective. I suppose I’ve recognized issues that I’ve confronted and that society faces immediately, disconnected people, patriarchal programs born out of capitalism that take away us from being linked, societal expectations, stress, hustle tradition, menopause, mid life disaster, loss, trauma… And I’ve shaped an idea and enterprise that helps folks to heal, to reconnect, to be human, to seek out pleasure,to really feel impressed, to create house, to manage.

Subsequently the specialist Yoga areas I’m actually concerned about and that appear essentially the most related are Yin, Restorative, Nidra but additionally different strategies to course of, to unlearn, to discover, to replicate and to create embrace writing, drawing, printing, narrative exploration utilizing imagery. I’m significantly concerned about trans-disciplinary collaboration between artists, musicians, psychologists, therapists, yoga lecturers. That is what actually excites me, this holistic strategy to wellness. To create new issues, new strategies, new methods of exploring who we’re and what worth we will deliver to others and to the world we dwell in. The world wants creativity proper now and it wants therapeutic. That is my calling.

How have you ever seen your observe profit your college students?

I can really feel it and see it. In a category it’s palpable each on-line and in individual. Individuals carry of their day, their vitality, their experiences. The lessons I ship enable them to shed, to let go, to create house, to heal and most essential to take heed to their true selves. They shift, there’s a metamorphosis. It’s stunning. I can see it of their posture, their tone, their faces, their eyes. It’s a person and a collective expertise. All of us really feel it. It’s a sure form of alchemy. The Yin is wonderful as a result of I do know have the identical group coming over for over 2 years now. I can see how the observe helps them on a weekly foundation but additionally over the seasons – it’s actually stunning and cyclical. This provides me such pleasure.

I suppose it’s fairly a maternal factor. I’ve taught since I used to be 21 and suggestions from college students was all the time that I impressed them, I made them really feel protected, capable of be weak, to share, join, uncover and develop. To search out their voice not their fashion to be their genuine selves. This can be a reward. I’ve solely been educating yoga for two years and I do know that I’m doing the identical as I did in an artwork and design context, I’m bringing all that have with me. I’ve been so fortunate to have such wonderful suggestions which you’ll see on our web site.

To be a very good trainer you should be humble and to be a very good pupil, to keep away from comparability as a lot as you possibly can in an instagram world and to do what feels proper and to by no means cease studying. I really like sharing, laughing, holding, nurturing and creating. That is it. I’m a fuller bodied center aged girl who loves what I do- that is good vitality and persons are drawn to good vitality and it spreads, it’s contagious. Come and be part of me!

What’s your favourite quote or life motto?

Honour thy error as a hidden intention.

Brian Eno

I need to rethink ‘give up’ as an energetic verb.

Brian Eno

What’s developing for you in 2025?

Breathe Straightforward for Menopause Mums – On-line Bitesize Breathwork Course for Girls. Be taught to Self Regulate Your Nervous System and Handle Peri/Menopause Signs. Brief, Manageable 2-5 min Morning, Lunchtime and Night Video Practices, Toolkits and Sensible Data. Lifetime Entry.

Summer time Wellness Retreat at Three Daggers Wiltshire – SCW X Arc Pilates. Expertise Farm to Fork Eating, Yin Yoga with Acupressure, Guided Yoga Nidra, Pilates & Fascial Launch, Breathwork & Nervous System Regulation, Sauna with Elective Chilly Water Swim, Time to Learn, Calm down and Use the Wellness Services. twentieth -Twenty second June 2025.