Yoga teacher · Wellbeing coach · Recovery coach
Celebrating the wisdom years
Rebuilding yourself, one honest step at a time
Yoga, coaching and community for women in the Rhondda and beyond, wherever you’re rebuilding from.
Wellbeing for the body and the life you’re in right now
You don’t have to navigate this alone.
There’s a particular kind of loneliness in living inside a body that no longer feels like yours. You wake up in it every day, you move through your life in it, and somewhere along the way it stopped doing what you asked of it. Stopped feeling familiar. You catch yourself in a mirror or a photo and there’s a strange half second where you don’t quite recognise what you see. You’re still you in there, but the body carrying you around doesn’t seem to have got the message.
Whatever brought you to that place, menopause, recovery, chronic illness, grief, or just years of pushing through without pause, the experience underneath is the same. A quiet, exhausting distance between who you are and what your body is doing. And so much of what’s out there tells you to fix it, override it, push harder against it.
I work the other way round. Yoga, coaching, and community, built to help you come back into a body that’s changed, not to force it back into one that’s gone.
How we can work together
Accessible Yoga classes in the Rhondda, including chair and menopause yoga. Yoga to help you find strength and ease in a body that’s changed, at whatever pace it can manage.
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Day retreats and themed workshops, space to slow down fully rather than fit wellbeing around everything else. A chance to be, to take care of you, and to connect with your body, yourself and others.
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One to one menopause, recovery, and embodiment coaching for women navigating change, in the body and in life. Sessions are shaped around where you are right now.
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Community
Trauma-informed wellbeing programmes delivered in partnership with local organisations. Co-creation with community, so support reaches those who need it most.
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You’re in good hands
I’m Esther, a yoga teacher, menopause coach and recovery coach based in the Rhondda, South Wales. I’ve spent over twelve years teaching yoga and supporting people through change, working with community groups, care homes, schools and recovery services across the area.
My work comes from lived experience as much as training. I’m post-menopausal, in long-term sobriety, a single parent, and I live with ADHD and ME. I’ve navigated chronic illness and significant grief alongside all of it. What I learned about the connection between stress, hormones, trauma and the nervous system changed everything for me. Now I bring that lived understanding, together with professional training in yoga, coaching and trauma-informed practice, to support people finding their way through something similar.
Because you deserve more than ‘just get on with it.’
My Philosophy
You don’t need to be flexible, fit, or fixed to belong here.
I believe wellbeing has to be accessible or it isn’t wellbeing at all. That means meeting people exactly where they are, on a chair, mid recovery, mid grief, mid whatever life is throwing at them, and building the practice around the person rather than the other way round.
I also believe there’s joy to be found even in the dark moments, not instead of them. Some of the most meaningful shifts I’ve seen, in myself and in the people I work with, have come from learning to hold difficulty and lightness at the same time.
I’m a lifelong learner, still training, still adapting what I offer as I learn more about what actually helps. And I believe in doing this work in community. None of us get through the hard stretches alone, and none of us should have to.
That’s what I bring to every session.
Kind words
After just a few sessions together, Esther has used her coaching skills to help me make small changes in my life that enable me to start to listen to my body whispering, and already I’ve been able to successfully face and navigate some considerable challenges that were looking as though they’d defeat me.
Esther is an amazing woman who changes lives. Having been through her own tribulations she is able to relate to those going through difficulties and offers an alternative way of dealing with issues they face.
Esther is a calming presence in a hectic world. The encouragement she provides makes a difference to people’s lives and the world is a better place with Esther in it.
I have done yoga sessions with Esther over several years and most recently done a pregnancy yoga course. Esther is friendly and welcoming in sessions. She is knowledgeable and experienced with yoga and is brilliant at adapting the session to individuals. After the sessions I always feel physically rejuvenated, more relaxed and calmer.
Esther has taught me how much difference breathing properly helps when stressed, or even breathing in general. Every aspect of yoga that I’ve learned so far gives me a better quality of life.
Why Choose Me
Plenty of people offer yoga classes. Plenty offer coaching.
Here’s what you actually get when you work with me.
Teaching from lived experience
I’m not teaching from a textbook. I’ve lived through menopause, addiction recovery, chronic illness and grief, often more than one at once, and found my way back to myself through the exact practices I now teach. When I say I understand what you’re carrying, I mean it.
Trained across the whole picture
Menopause yoga, recovery coaching, trauma-informed practice, injury, aging, nervous system regulation, embodiment work. I didn’t pick one lane because life doesn’t hand people one problem at a time. Whatever you’re navigating, there’s a good chance I’ve trained specifically for it.
Built around your body, not against it
No cold showers, no pushing through, no willpower pep talks. My approach works with your nervous system, meeting your body and your capacity as they actually are today, so the changes you make are ones you can sustain.